马萨诸塞州诺福克县警长办公室前助理主管Thomas Brady被判20个月：指使下属到家中修暖气，还伪造信件干扰证人
美国马萨诸塞州诺福克县：马萨诸塞区联邦检察官办公室宣布，诺福克县警长办公室（NCSO）前助理主管、55岁的 Norwood 居民 Thomas Brady 已在 Boston 联邦法院被判处20个月监禁、出狱后监管释放2年，并处罚金5,000美元；联邦地区法官 Julia E. Kobick 作出量刑。Brady 于2026年6月就一项干扰证人罪与一项利用州际设施实施贿赂与勒索罪认罪。
案情显示，Brady 于2021年至2023年5月担任 NCSO 监狱运营助理副主管，2023年5月升任助理主管。2022年10月至11月，他利用职权指使一名下属维修员在工作时间及下班后到其住所维修暖气系统；该维修员担心拒绝会殃及自己的班次、岗位乃至饭碗，被迫服从，先后于2022年10月6日上门排查故障、其后更换循环泵，并于11月1日至2日两度与另一名维修员一起上门安装新泵。
2023年6月16日，另一名维修员向马萨诸塞州道德委员会（SEC）举报 Brady 指使下属为其私人住所干活，SEC 随即展开调查并约谈相关维修员。Brady 得知调查后，于2023年10月5日前后冒签举报人的姓名向 SEC 寄出一封手写信，泄露针对其中一名维修员的保密内部调查信息，并把自己列为该调查的证人。联邦调查人员检验发现，信封邮票下方提取到的指纹属于 Brady，信封封口处提取到的男性 DNA 也属于 Brady。
量刑时，法院还认定 Brady 曾对受害人与证人发动抹黑行动：他匿名寄信到举报人一名未成年亲属就读的学校，诬告举报人性侵该未成年人，触发儿童与家庭厅基于虚假指控的紧急调查。联邦检察官 Leah B. Foley 与联邦调查局（FBI）Boston 分局特别探员主管 Ted E. Docks 公布了量刑结果，此案由助理联邦检察官 Lucy Sun 起诉。
Former Norfolk County Sheriff's Office Assistant Superintendent Thomas Brady Sentenced to 20 Months for Ordering Staff to Repair His Home and Tampering With Witnesses
Norfolk County, Massachusetts — The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts announced that Thomas Brady, 55, of Norwood, the former Assistant Superintendent at the Norfolk County Sheriff's Office (NCSO), was sentenced in federal court in Boston to 20 months in prison, two years of supervised release and a $5,000 fine. U.S. District Court Judge Julia E. Kobick imposed the sentence. In June 2026, Brady pleaded guilty to one count of witness tampering and one count of use of interstate facilities to commit bribery and extortion.
From 2021 through May 2023, Brady served as the Assistant Deputy Superintendent for Jail Operations at NCSO and was promoted to Assistant Superintendent in May 2023. In October and November 2022, Brady used his official position to order a subordinate maintenance officer to perform home repairs at his residence during and after work hours. The officer, fearing that refusal would cost him his preferred shift, position or employment, complied: he drove to Brady's residence on October 6, 2022 to troubleshoot the heating system, later replaced the circulator pump, and returned twice on November 1 and 2, 2022 with a second maintenance officer to install a new one.
On June 16, 2023, another NCSO maintenance officer reported Brady to the Massachusetts State Ethics Commission (SEC), which opened an investigation and interviewed the maintenance officers. After learning of the investigation, Brady, on or about October 5, 2023, mailed a handwritten letter to the SEC falsely signed in the reporting officer's name, divulging information about a confidential internal NCSO investigation into one of the witnesses and listing himself as a witness. Federal investigators confirmed that a fingerprint found underneath the postage stamp on the envelope belonged to Brady, and that male DNA recovered from the envelope flap also belonged to Brady.
At sentencing, the court also found as relevant conduct that Brady engaged in a smear campaign against the victims and witnesses, including anonymously sending a letter to a school attended by a minor relative of the reporting officer, falsely accusing the officer of sexually molesting the minor, which triggered an emergency Department of Children and Families investigation based on the false accusation. United States Attorney Leah B. Foley and Ted E. Docks, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Boston Division, announced the sentence. Assistant U.S. Attorney Lucy Sun of the Public Corruption & Special Prosecutions Unit prosecuted the case.
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