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Former President of Law Enforcement Union Charged with Defrauding Union and its Members
Edward D. Mullins, the former President of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, has been charged with one count of wire fraud in connection with a scheme to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars from the SBA.
According to the allegations in the Information filed today in Manhattan federal court, Mullins used his personal credit card to pay for meals at high-end restaurants and to purchase luxury personal items, among other things, and then submitted false and inflated expense reports to the SBA, seeking reimbursement for those bills as legitimate SBA expenditures when in fact they were not.
Altogether, Mullins was reimbursed for over $1 million dollars in expenses from the SBA, the majority of which was fraudulently obtained.
The SBA is the fifth-largest police union in the United States with its headquarters located in lower Manhattan. The SBA’s membership consists of all active and retired sergeants of the NYPD, with approximately 13,000 members as of October 2021.
For active members, dues are deducted bi-weekly from their paychecks, totaling approximately $1,300 annually for each member. For retired members, dues are required to be paid in a one-time payment of $600 within ninety days of retirement.
Mullins surrendered to the FBI in Manhattan this morning, and was presented before U.S. Magistrate Judge Gabriel W. Gorenstein. The case has been assigned to United States District Judge John G. Koeltl.
This is not the first time the SBA has been embroiled in scandal. In 2021, the union was criticized for its handling of a COVID-19 outbreak among its members.
The FBI’s Public Corruption Task Force, which includes detectives from the NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau, is leading the investigation into Mullins’ alleged wrongdoing.
Key Facts
- State: New York
- Category: Public Corruption
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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