On August 4, Eddie De Hoyos, former district vice president for the American Postal Workers Union, Texas State Association, was ordered in the 187th District Court for Bexar County, Texas to serve up to 180 days in prison, five years of probation and 150 hours of community service for theft from the McAllen, Tex.-based labor organization. De Hoyos also will have to pay $15,761.21 in restitution, plus court fees totaling $1,793, an administrative fee of $60 a month and a one-time crime stoppers fee of $50. The sentencing follows an investigation by the Labor Department's Office of Labor-Management Standards.
On November 1, Bobby Harrison, former treasurer of American Postal Workers Union Local 79, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia to six months in prison, three years of supervised probation and 300 hours of community service for embezzling $21,737.11 in funds from the Gainesville, Ga.-based union. He also was ordered to pay $15,159.77 in restitution and a $100 special assessment. Harrison pled guilty in August. The guilty plea and sentencing follow a joint investigation by the U.S. Labor Department's Office of Labor-Management Standards and the U.S. Postal Service's Office of Inspector General.
On August 17, Bobby Harrison, former secretary-treasurer of American Postal Workers Union Local 979, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia to one count of embezzling $21,737.11 from the Gainesville, Ga.-based union. The guilty plea follows a joint investigation by the Labor Department's Office of Labor-Management Standards and the U.S. Postal Service's Office of Inspector General.
On June 17, Kim Hirschkorn, former financial secretary of Local 709 of the American Postal Workers Union, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington for embezzling an unspecified sum of money from the Bellingham local. She then was sentenced to two years probation and 90 days of electronic monitoring, and ordered to pay a special $100 assessment. Hirschkorn previously had made restitution. She had been charged last December. The actions follow an investigation by the Labor Department's Office of Labor-Management Standards.
On May 2, Frankie Sanders, former Southern Regional Coordinator for the American Postal Workers Union, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas to 18 months in prison and three years of supervised release for claiming false travel reimbursements from the Houston-based labor organization during July 2003-May 2006. He also will have to pay $10,078.40 in restitution and a $100 special assessment. Sanders, who had been indicted in March 2010 for embezzling more than $13,000, pleaded guilty last November. The actions follow an investigation by the Labor Department's Office of Labor-Management Standards.
On June 14, Gary Weightman, former president of American Postal Workers Union Local 190, was sentenced in Newark federal court to five years probation, including a year of home confinement, for two counts of tax evasion. Weightman originally had been indicted in February 2006 along with local Secretary-Treasurer John McGovern for conspiring to embezzle a combined roughly $400,000 during April 2000-October 2002 from the Clifton, N.J. union. McGovern 
On June 1, Albert Gardner, former president of American Postal Workers Union Local 359, was indicted in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama for embezzling $12,346 from the Madison, Ala.-based union. Gardner, 48, a resident of Huntsville, allegedly stole the funds during June 2006-June 2007. The indictment follows an investigation by the Labor Department's Office of Labor-Management Standards.
On May 24, 
On December 10, Kim Hirschkorn, former treasurer of American Postal Workers Union Local 709, was charged in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington with embezzlement of an unspecified amount of funds from the Bellingham-based union. The charge follows a probe by the U.S. Labor Department's Office of Labor-Management Standards.
