And so, farewell then, Dana Pullman and Bill Dessaps, felonious fraudsters finally off to their federal prison cells after years and years of foot-dragging through the courts.
They are both criminals of the types that have become all too familiar to Massachusetts taxpayers. Pullman was a thug state trooper and corrupt union boss. Dessaps is a Haitian-born welfare grifter who absconded with almost a million dollars in federal COVID relief funds.
After their recent sentencings, 64-year-old Pullman is gone for three years. The 49-year-old Dessaps will do two years, hopefully followed by rapid denaturalization and deportation back to his savage Third World homeland.
Yet as they depart to Club Fed, many questions remain unanswered about their sordid criminal careers. I was hoping for answers in their respective pre-sentencing memos. But sadly, some of their atrocious deeds will apparently remain Unsolved Mysteries.
For instance, when Dessaps was lugged, the feds mentioned some of the luxuries he splurged on besides that $750,000 suburban home purchased “in the name of a straw buyer.”
Specifically, as soon as he pocketed his phony $836,000 PPP COVID payout, the Haitian bought himself a gold Rolls Royce — playing to the old stereotypes much there, Bill?
And then Dessaps went down to West Virginia and paid $32,000 cash for five French Bulldogs — the ultimate designer dog these days.
Your taxpayer dollars at work.
Dessaps’ ill-gotten Rolls was mentioned only in passing in the feds’ memo to the judge, and the Frenchies not at all. What happened to the poor dogs?
Have they been rehomed to Vermont with the McAlberts’ dog Chloe/Cora? Or were they perhaps adopted by some of the Beautiful People who favor the fashionable breed, like Lady Gaga or AOC?
But as a true-crime fan, I have even more questions about crooked state cop Pullman, and his domestic arrangements.
Back in the day, believe it or not, Pullman seems to have been a real chick magnet. Must have been those matinee-idol good looks of his, as shown in this photograph that the U.S. attorney thoughtfully included in the pre-sentencing memo.
That snapshot, taken in happier, stealing times, is with his codefendant, Anne Lynch, now age 75. That wrinkly “lobbyist” will be spending the next 15 months in a federal penitentiary.
What I wonder about is what has happened to the much, much younger female referred to in Pullman’s original indictment as “Individual No. 1.”
She resurfaced in last week’s memo as his “then girlfriend.” So their May-December romance didn’t last for the ages?
But while it lasted, it was a heady — and expensive — time for the lovebirds. According to the G-men, Pullman lavished $14,000 in union funds on his romantic escapades, including a “celebratory personal lunch in New York featuring champagne and caviar.”
That was followed up by a romantic four-night winter getaway to The Palms Hotel and Spa in Miami with a rental convertible and “a $151 trip to the hotel’s Tiki Beach Side Café.”
Total tab: $3,194.87, charged to the state police union as “business expenses.”
Monkey business, that is.
At the same time, though, the feds say lovely lobbyist Lynch recorded “a $50,000 payment to PULLMAN’s spouse as a ‘consulting fee’ even though neither PULLMAN nor his spouse ever did any consulting work for the Lobbying Firm and the check payable to PULLMAN’s spouse was for $20,000 and not $50,000.”
Pullman’s wife is named Melissa. She retired from the State Police at age 43 in 2005 and has since been collecting a yearly kiss in the mail of what is now up to $61,038 a year.
Sadly, Dana Pullman’s own monthly $5,423.56-a-month state kiss in the mail was “suspended” in 2023, forcing him to get a real job. After looting the union he was president of — SPAM — he was quickly handed a job with Local 242 of the Laborers Union.
But now, wouldn’t you just know it, “Due to medical conditions, he is currently not working.”
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, especially about a crooked state cop.
In his own pre-sentencing memo last week, Pullman attempted a Hail Mary pass. He compared his thievery with that of Monica Cannon-Grant, the obese BLM race hustler who recently got absolutely no jail time from a far-left Biden judge by the name of Angel Kelley.
Pullman asked for no special treatment, just to be treated like Monica Cannon-Grant.
“Mr. Pullman suggests that (Cannon-Grant’s) conduct is analogous to the conduct in this case.”
Yeah right. It was, except for one thing. Pullman is not a member of multiple protected classes. With Biden/Obama judges, that’s all that matters. It’s DEI justice, for “just us.”
Thus, Pullman does time, even if it isn’t particularly hard.
I’ve read all the memos now, but I still have these unanswered questions in the tawdry cases of both kleptomaniacs, Dessaps and Pullman.
Did “Individual No. 1” go back to bartending after Pullman got lugged? How are Dana and Melissa Pullman getting along these days?
Who got custody of the five French bulldogs? Not to mention the gold Rolls-Royce?
I feel that as taxpayers, we have a right to know the answers to these questions. After all, we picked up the tab, in one way or another, for everything here.
We always do.
