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Former head of Mass. State Police union has convictions overturned
Dana Pullman served as president of the State Police Association of Massachusetts from 2012 to 2018.
A former Massachusetts State Police union president who had been sentenced to 30 months in prison for kickback schemes will be resentenced following the overturning of three of his convictions on Monday by a federal appeals court.
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Dana Pullman, 60, of Worcester, was sentenced in 2023 for racketeering, fraud, obstruction of justice, and tax crimes. He remained free while appealing his convictions, the Boston Globe reported. The U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals reversed three of his wire fraud convictions but let the rest stand.
Pullman and his codefendant Anne M. Lynch, founder and former owner of the lobbying firm Lynch Associates Inc. were convicted in November 2022 of one count of racketeering conspiracy, one count of honest services wire fraud, three counts of wire fraud, one count of obstruction of justice, and one count of conspiracy to defraud the Internal Revenue Service, the district attorney’s office said.
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Pullman was convicted of two additional counts of wire fraud and two counts of aiding and assisting the filing of a false tax return, and Lynch was convicted of an additional count of obstruction of justice and four counts of aiding and assisting in the filing of a false tax return, according to officials.
Lynch also had three of her wire fraud convictions overturned as well as her convictions for obstruction of justice and tax fraud, according to the Globe.
“Following the government’s lead, we reverse these convictions,” judges David J. Barron, William J. Kayatta, and Seth Robert Aframe wrote in a 38-page opinion. “Because the government concedes acquittal should have been entered for the wire fraud convictions of both defendants and for one count of Lynch’s tax fraud convictions, we reverse the judgment on those counts.”
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The State Police Association of Massachusetts consists of more than 1,500 Massachusetts State Police troopers and sergeants. Pullman, who had been a trooper since 1987, was president of the union from 2012 until 2018. He took a total of $41,250 in kickbacks from Lynch and diverted thousands of dollars from the union for personal expenses, according to authorities.
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