Former Massachusetts State Police union president, lobbyist resentenced in federal corruption case

BOSTON — A former president of the State Police Association of Massachusetts (SPAM) and the union’s former lobbyist were resentenced Wednesday in federal court in Boston following partial reversals of their convictions by a federal appeals court.

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts, Dana A. Pullman, 64, of Worcester, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Richard Stearns to two years in prison followed by one year of supervised release and ordered to pay $43,915 in restitution. Anne M. Lynch, 75, of Hull, was sentenced to 15 months in prison followed by one year of supervised release and ordered to pay $41,795 in restitution.

Dana Pullman, the former president of SPAM, and Anne Lynch, his co-conspirator and the police union’s former Massachusetts lobbyist, were originally convicted in November 2022 by a federal jury 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 additional 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.

In May 2023, Pullman was sentenced to 30 months in prison and Lynch to two years. In June 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit overturned three of the defendants’ wire fraud convictions, along with one of Lynch’s tax convictions and one obstruction of justice conviction. The First Circuit upheld the remaining convictions against Pullman and Lynch and sent the case back to the District Court for resentencing.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts reported that Pullman served as a Massachusetts State Police trooper from 1987 to 2018 and was the president of the State Police Association of Massachusetts from 2012 until his resignation on Sept. 28, 2018. During that period, Lynch’s lobbying firm represented the union in exchange for a monthly retainer payment.

During the six years Pullman served as union president, prosecutors say that he and Lynch engaged in a racketeering scheme that defrauded union members, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the Internal Revenue Service. According to court findings, Lynch paid Pullman a $20,000 kickback related to a settlement agreement between SPAM and the Commonwealth. Authorities said the payment was concealed by the defendants to avoid reporting the income and paying taxes to the IRS.

In addition to the scheme involving Lynch, prosecutors say Pullman stole money independently from SPAM for his own personal expenses. Over a two-year period, he used a SPAM debit card to cover costs for himself and his then-girlfriend, including a “celebratory lunch” in New York where they drank champagne and ate caviar and a trip to Miami, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts reported.

In 2018, when a federal grand jury issued subpoenas as part of the investigation, prosecutors said Pullman urged the union’s treasurer to falsely claim that SPAM had a policy of destroying expense records after one year. Authorities also say that Lynch obstructed the grand jury’s investigation by providing false statements to investigators.

The State Police Association of Massachusetts represents more than 1,500 troopers and sergeants and serves as the exclusive bargaining agent for its members in negotiations with the Commonwealth.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Kristina E. Barclay and Neil J. Gallagher Jr. of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts.