BRANFORD, CT — Before joining the FBI in 1985, Greg Dillion had been a Branford cop. He was hired as a supernumerary officer after graduating from the University of New Haven in 1978 and spent three years working mostly weekends, he said, until being hired as a full time officer in 1981.
"I enjoyed my time at the Branford Police Department and am still friends with several of the officers I worked with," he told Patch. "It was great preparation for my eventually becoming an FBI agent in 1985."
Dillon would end up being a whistleblower, disclosing FBI misconduct.
Once he went to the FBI, he was assigned to the Criminal Reactive Squad in Virginia and was then a member of the Violent Crime Squad in Washington, D.C.
In 1990, he returned to Connecticut when he was hired as an inspector for the Connecticut office of the Chief State's Attorney in 1990.
Assigned to an FBI fugitive task force, Dillon said he discovered that fellow FBI agents were "falsifying affidavits and attributing the false information to Dillon," as well as two investigators he supervised.
Dillon, "realizing the mistakes were intentional and ongoing," told his boss, then Chief State's Attorney John "Jack" Bailey, Jr.
That's when things took a 180.
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