DOJ: Cultist Ex-NYPD Union Head Embezzled $1 Million

February 24, 2022 Crime, Politics

From the Justice Department:

Beginning in 2017, MULLINS devised a scheme to fund his personal expenses through SBA dollars. Specifically, MULLINS charged his personal credit card for, among other things, hundreds of high-end meals, clothing, jewelry, home appliances, and a relative’s college tuition.

MULLINS then submitted, typically by email, fraudulent and inflated expense reports to the Treasurer of the SBA, seeking reimbursement for such items purporting to be legitimate SBA expenditures when in fact they were not. MULLINS rarely included receipts.

The Treasurer processed the expense reports once they were received – almost always without obtaining any receipts – and issued SBA reimbursement checks to MULLINS from the Contingent Fund – i.e., the fund that was made up almost entirely of member dues.

MULLINS then deposited the checks into his bank account or enlisted an individual at the SBA to deposit the checks on MULLINS’s behalf at a bank branch near the SBA’s headquarters in lower Manhattan. MULLINS then, usually immediately thereafter, paid down his credit card bills with the deposited funds.

As part of this fraudulent scheme, MULLINS made at least three types of misstatements on his expense reports. First, MULLINS included meals on his expense reports that were not SBA-related. Second, MULLINS inflated the costs of his meals – whether SBA-related or not.

For example, if the actual cost of a meal was $522.55, MULLINS would seek reimbursement from the SBA for $822.55, and pocket the difference.

At times, MULLINS would even write out these changes on his personal credit card statements that he maintained at his home – i.e., crossing off “522.55” and writing in “822.55”, thereby documenting his false statements.

Third, MULLINS would take personal expenses like supermarket bills and claim them on his expense reports as SBA-related meals for which he also sought reimbursement.

Gothamist reports:



Mullins, an incendiary union leader who frequently accused New York’s political leaders of being soft on crime, resigned in October, following a raid on his home in Port Washington, Long Island and the SBA’s Manhattan officers.

Prior to his departure, Mullins faced a pair of department trials for disclosing personal information about Mayor Bill de Blasio’s daughter, and for referring to two city officials as a “bitch” and “first class whore” on Twitter.

He was docked a total of $32,000 for the offensive tweets, but avoided termination, allowing him to leave with the bulk of his benefits. When investigators searched his home office last year, according to the complaint, they discovered two sets of credit card statements, marked “Clean Copy” and “Work Copy.”

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