Seventeen years ago, then-President Barack Hussein Obama’s Department of Justice launched a witch hunt against four Connecticut police officers who’d been rooting out illegal alien fraud.
The four East Haven Police Department officers — Jason Zullo, John Miller, David Cari, and Dennis Spaulding — “were branded as criminals, their lives and families torn apart,” according to the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund (LELDF).
But they weren’t criminals — they were “committed, decorated professionals engaged in the unglamorous work of enforcing the law in a community plagued by fraudulent vehicle registrations, gang activity, and illegal enterprises.”
Years later, Spaulding is now speaking out about what happened.
Listen below as he talks about some of the fraud his team uncovered:
ON THE PODCAST: Dennis Spaulding exposed a $2 million fraud by organized crime and hundreds of illegal immigrants who used fraudulent license plates and licenses.
The Obama DOJ put him and 3 other cops in prison for it. pic.twitter.com/8Z8ue7JJOi
— Law Enforcement Legal Defense (@LELDF) March 11, 2026
“We come to find out that there was over 1,500 [license] plates involved in this large-scale organized crime involving thousands of illegal immigrants and a person in Philadelphia who was the mastermind behind this whole scam,” he said in the clip above.
“She and a partner ended up being arrested by the state police in Pennsylvania. Turns out that they were sending the registration plates, fake insurance cards, and then they were charging approximately $1,500 for these plates. And I believe at the end of the investigation, there was over 1,500 plates canceled as part of this scam,” he added.
So why were he and his peers targeted for rooting out fraud? Because “many of those arrested happened to be undocumented immigrants,” and the Obama administration was virtually in love with illegals — so much so it “sought to brand the entire department as racist and discriminatory,” according to LELDF.
The targeting occurred on Jan. 24, 2012, when the four officers were indicted for allegedly “conspiring to violate, and violating, the civil rights of members of the East Haven community,” according to an Obama-era Department of Justice (DOJ) press release.
Listen below as Spaulding talks about the day he was convicted:
“My daughter was two days old the day the guilty verdict came back.”
Dennis Spaulding and his team uncovered a massive illegal immigrant fraud network in their small Connecticut town.
Instead of thanking them, the Obama DOJ destroyed their lives. pic.twitter.com/15EWZ1vfke
— Law Enforcement Legal Defense (@LELDF) March 17, 2026
“My daughter was two days old the day the guilty verdict came back,” he said. “The first thing I wanted to do was leave the court and go make sure my wife and daughter were okay. That’s all I could think about. And then I started planning my life to make sure that they were going to be okay.”
He added that he was given a whopping five-year sentence that included a bevy of disgusting “enhancements.”
“They had added several enhancements on,” he explained. “They added a two-point enhancement. They have a point system on basically a guideline for how long you should be sentenced. They added a two-point enhancement on because they said that they had to use significant government expenditures on this case.”
“They had spent millions of dollars prosecuting it. So I should be punished further and get an enhancement because of the amount of money that they spent prosecuting this crime. So seven to five years. So they had added up under color of law, which is why you work as a police officer, which added on a bunch of points. I didn’t have any remorse at sentencing, so they added time on for that,” he continued.
In the clip below, Spaulding speaks about why he rejected a plea deal:
“I couldn’t believe that the federal government had given immunity to criminals for the crimes that they had committed.”
On top of giving immunity to witnesses, the Obama DOJ gave the criminal illegal immigrants involved in this fraud PERMANENT LEGAL STATUS. pic.twitter.com/atkDwr8q9t
— Law Enforcement Legal Defense (@LELDF) March 18, 2026
“There was no way I was ever going to accept a plea bargain for things that weren’t true,” he said.
He went on to talk about the type of criminal witnesses that the Obama administration had relied on to prosecute him.
“I couldn’t believe that they were putting on witnesses that would lie,” he said. “I couldn’t believe that the federal government had given immunity to criminals for the crimes that they had committed, felonies, multiple felonies for their witnesses. I just couldn’t believe it felt like the world was flipped around.”
“They were putting a target on law enforcement and coddling criminals and allowing them to speak untruths and fabricated stories. They were allowing people to take the stand and say they did nothing wrong and that everything in our police report was a lie,” he added.
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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