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Sheriff’s deputy who allegedly used department employees for work at his home leaves job
The state ethics commission found Thomas Brady violated conflict of interest law when he had sheriff’s office plumbers do work at his home for free.
A Norfolk County sheriff’s deputy who was accused of violating state ethics rules when he allegedly directed department plumbers to perform work at his home for free has left his job, NBC10 Boston reports.
Thomas Brady, who served as assistant deputy superintendent of jail operations at the Norfolk sheriff’s office, was initially given a termination notice by the sheriff’s department last week for “failure to meet expectations and standards,” according to the station. The sheriff’s office told NCB10 Boston that Brady resigned before the termination was set to take place.
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The state Ethics Commission’s Enforcement Division announced last year that it found Brady violated conflict of interest law when he approached plumbers working for the sheriff’s office on four occasions in 2021 and 2022 and asked them to do work at his home. The state found that the plumbers performed the work — replacing a shower head, replacing his water heater, repairing his boiler, and replacing the boiler’s circulator pump — largely during their work hours for the sheriff’s office and were not compensated. The sheriff’s office was also not reimbursed for the time the plumbers were doing the private work for Brady.
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In one of the instances, Brady allegedly gave each of the workers a bottle of wine as compensation.
The state investigation found that with Brady’s superior rank and position at the sheriff’s office, the requests were inherently coercive. The ethics commission is holding a hearing for Brady’s case on May 29. He is facing up to $10,000 for each violation of the state’s ethics law.
A request for comment from the sheriff’s office was not immediately returned.
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