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Posted on 03/21/2026 11:38:12 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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: [X video at source]
“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: [x video at source]
“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: [X video at source]
“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:
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The truth about “Dear Leader Zer0” is coming out.
It’d be nice to see them get 15 years of backpay, reinstated with full rank and benefits from which they could immediately retire if they wanted to, and the prosecutors should be brought up themselves on federal charges and disbarred
They should have put Obozo in jail.
Sounds like some good candidates for pardons.
I cannot post the words that are coming to my mind. Smh…
“the Obama administration was virtually in love with illegals”
Because they were Not.White.
It’s a logical gate that they employ...
It would be nice to see everything the 0bamas own seized, split four ways, and given to these officers.
Over the decades civil rights division went after more white police officers then anybody
I already hate Obama with a red hot passion. The Obamanation was some of the worst years in my life. I didn’t think my ODS (Obama Derangement Syndrome) could get any worse but this outrage has found a way to enhance that .
“Fundamentally transform America “
Barry Soetoro - D evil. This POS and The Biden Crime Family should be in prison.
But he was “ The Lightbringer”.
Ya know, like Lucifer.
indeed ... and President Trump should issue full pardons and assure that all records related to their prosecution and conviction are expunged ...
Trump should hand out commendations to these four officers and prosecute the prosecutors . Hound them to hell and back.
This is the next town over from me…..I never heard this story before.
I was once under the illusion that because a group of people somehow got into the top position of power they could no longer complain that they were being discriminated against. Obama proved that wrong . In spades .
Add this to another crime/sin for Eric Holder.
It seems there should be numbers of LEO and Border Patrol that have a score to settle with EriKKK Holder.
AMeN
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