BOSTON – The former President of the State Police union and the union’s former Massachusetts lobbyist, who is from Hull, were convicted by a federal jury Thursday of racketeering, fraud, obstruction of justice and tax crimes.
Dana A. Pullman, 60, of Worcester, and Anne M. Lynch, 71, of Hull, were convicted after a 20-day jury trial 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.
Pullman was also convicted of two counts of wire fraud and two counts of aiding and assisting the filing of a false tax return.
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.
Pullman and Lynch were arrested and charged in August 2019 and indicted by a federal grand jury in September 2019.
The union, the State Police Association of Massachusetts, represents more than 1,500 state troopers and sergeants.
Pullman, who was a state trooper from 1987 to 2018, was the union president from 2012 until his resignation on Sept. 28, 2018. Lynch’s lobbying firm represented the union during the same time period in exchange for monthly retainer payments.
From at least 2012 until Pullman resigned as the union president, Pullman and Lynch turned the union into a racketeering enterprise, using Pullman’s position and power to defraud union members, the…
