On May 25, Jeff Napier, former president of United Auto Workers Local 151, pleaded guilty in Fayette County (Indiana) Superior Court to theft from the Connersville, Ind. union. He then was sentenced to three years probation, and was ordered to make restitution in the amount of $3,470 and fined $164. The guilty plea and sentencing follow an investigation by the Labor Department's Office of Labor-Management Standards.
Sometimes the unfinished business of a strike can take years to resolve. In the case of Donny Douglas and Jay Campbell, it was close to 15 years. Douglas and Campbell, each a former officer with United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 594 in Pontiac, Mich., 
On September 30, James Hunter, former treasurer of United Auto Workers Local 1542, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware to one year probation and was ordered to pay $1,048.04 in restitution and a $25 special assessment for making a false statement in financial records of the Newark, Del.-based union. He pled guilty in June. The sentencing follows an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department's Office of Labor-Management Standards.
On August 25, William Kiddell, former secretary-treasurer of Local 592 of the United Auto Workers, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois to making false entries in financial records of the Rockford union. He then agreed to pay $7,152 in restitution. The plea follows a probe by the U.S. Labor Department's Office of Labor-Management Standards.
On January 25, James Hunter, formerly treasurer of United Auto Workers Local 1542, was charged in U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware with one count of making a false entry in financial records of the Newark-based union. The charge follows a probe by the Labor Department's Office of Labor-Management Standards.
Writing nearly 200 unauthorized paychecks invites the law of averages to catch up. For Robbin Wolff it did. On October 29, Wolff, formerly bookkeeper for United Auto Workers Local 383, 
On July 1, Jeff Napier, former president of United Auto Workers Local 151, was charged in Fayette County, Indiana Superior Court with three counts of theft for knowingly or intentionally exerting unauthorized control over property of the Connersville local. The charges follow a probe by the Labor Department's Office of Labor-Management Standards.
Robbin Wolff went robbin' union funds for four years. She may wind up spending even more time in prison. Wolff, former bookkeeper for United Auto Workers Local 383, pleaded guilty on July 28 in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan to embezzling more than $200,000 from the Benton Harbor local and falsifying union records afterward. Wolff faces a five-year sentence this October 28 for embezzlement and a one-year sentence for records fraud.
