On November 5, 2010, Karl Youngerman, former president of Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastics & Allied Workers International Union Local 208, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida to conspiracy to embezzle funds from the Bradenton union. He agreed to pay restitution in the amount of $18,218.91 to Zurich North America. Sentencing is scheduled for January 27. Youngerman is the last of the three defendants to face justice in this case. Last September 28, Anthony Green and Woodrow Anderson, respectively, the former vice president and treasurer of the local, each received a prison sentence of two years, plus 180 days of home confinement, and were ordered to make restitution. The actions follow a probe by the Labor Department's Office of Labor-Management Standards.
On February 24, Poutoa Tuiolemotu, former financial secretary of Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastics and Allied Workers International Union Local 50, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington to one year of probation and 90 days of home confinement for embezzling funds from the Seattle union. He also was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $17,250. Tuiolemotu had pleaded guilty in December 2010. The actions follow an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department's Office of Labor-Management Standards.
On December 14, Rodney Richerson, former financial secretary of Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastics and Allied Workers International Workers Local 238, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana to embezzling $100,195 from the Kokomo union. He then was sentenced to four months incarceration, eight months home detention and two years supervised release. He also will have to pay full restitution plus a $100 special assessment. Richerson had been charged last April. The actions follow an investigation by the Labor Department's Office of Labor-Management Standards.
On April 28, Rodney Richerson, former financial secretary of Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastic and Allied Workers International Union Local 238, was charged in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana with one count of embezzling $100,195 from the Kokomo union. The charge follows a probe by the U.S. Labor Department's Office of Labor-Management Standards.
On February 2, Karl Youngerman, former president of Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastics & Allied Workers International Union Local 208, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida to five years probation for conspiracy to embezzle funds from the Bradenton union in the amount of $18,218.91. He also was ordered to pay restitution in that amount to Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland. Youngerman had pleaded guilty in November. The guilty plea and sentencing follow an investigation by the Labor Department's Office of Labor-Management Standards.
On December 10, Poutoa Tuiolemotu, former treasurer of Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastics and Allied Workers International Union Local 50, was charged in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington with embezzling an unspecified amount of funds from the Seattle local. The charge follows an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department's Office of Labor-Management Standards.
On October 29, Curtis Iwatsubo, former secretary-treasurer of Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastics and Allied Workers International Union Local 52, was sentenced in San Jose federal court to 10 months in prison for embezzling more than $48,000 in union funds and was ordered to pay $38,434 in restitution plus a $100 special assessment. Iwatsubo, now 36, in his guilty plea in May of this year admitted that during January-November 2005 he had used his union debit card to make more than 80 unauthorized ATM cash withdrawals totaling more than $47,000. He also admitted to using the card to making an unauthorized $800 payment to an American Express charge card and making false entries on union records to conceal the thefts. The local represents more than 200 workers at the Owens-Corning plant in Santa Clara. The guilty plea and sentencing follow a probe by the U.S. Labor Department's Office of Labor-Management Standards.
On September 28, Anthony Green, former vice president and recording secretary of Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastics and Allied Workers Local 208 in Bradenton, Fla., was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida to two years probation and 180 days home confinement to making a false entry in union financial records. He was ordered to pay restitution to Zurich North America in the amount of $3,073.10 plus a $25 assessment. Green had pleaded guilty in July. The guilty plea and sentencing follow a probe by the Labor Department's Office of Labor-Management Standards.
On July 1, Woodrow Anderson, former treasurer of Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastics & Allied Workers International Union Local 208, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida to making a false statement of material fact in a financial statement. He was ordered to pay restitution of $2,249.96 to Zurich North America. The union is based in Bradenton. The guilty plea follows an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department's Office of Labor-Management Standards.
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