Carol Bruno

New York State Public Employees Union President Charged

Submitted by Carl Horowitz on Thu, 03/11/2010 - 17:57

John Vinson isn't the only former local official within New York State's mammoth Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA), an AFSCME affiliate, to be in recent trouble for embezzlement. Rank-and-file members no doubt hope he'll be the last. Vinson, president of CSEA Local 659, was arrested by state police on Wednesday, February 17, and charged with embezzling more than $70,000 from the Albany union. He was arraigned in Albany City Court and released on $10,000 bond.

Public Employees Union Treasurer in Albany, New York Sentenced for Embezzlement

Submitted by Carl Horowitz on Mon, 06/15/2009 - 17:03

AFSCME logoAs treasurer of the largest public employees union in New York State, Carol Bruno managed to help herself to its treasury. Now she'll have a few years to think about it. On Friday, May 15, Bruno, formerly an administrative assistant for Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Region IV, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Albany to three years of probation, the first 10 months of which will involve home confinement.

Beginning in March 2004 and for a period of two years thereafter, Bruno took about $40,000 from union accounts until certain fellow office employees noticed money was missing and notified the authorities. In July 2007, she was removed from her state government and union posts, and in January 2009 pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $16,000. CSEA Region IV is alternately known as Local 1000 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. (Associated Press, 5/15/09).

New Jersey Treasurer Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement

Submitted by Carl Horowitz on Mon, 02/09/2009 - 01:00

On January 15, Richard Klemser, former treasurer of International Association of Machinists Lodge 1041 in West Long Branch, N.J., pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey to embezzling roughly $60,000 during January 2004-March 2008.  The guilty plea follows an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department.  (OLMS, 1/28/09).

 

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Albany, N.Y.-Area Treasurer Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement

Submitted by Carl Horowitz on Mon, 01/12/2009 - 01:00

Carol Bruno was treasurer of New York’s largest state and local government workers union.  Unfortunately, she used her position to steal from the union treasury.  On Wednesday, January 7, Bruno, 53, an administrative assistant with the state Department of Health, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Albany to one count of embezzling from Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Region IV, also known as Local 1000 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.  A grand jury had indicted her this past October.

 

Former Upstate New York Treasurer Indicted for Embezzlement

Submitted by Carl Horowitz on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 00:00

New York has many public employees.  And they produce a substantial pot of union dues.  Carol Bruno saw an opportunity to help herself to some of that money.  If she thought she wasn’t going to be caught, she guessed wrong.  On October 9, Bruno, a clerk with the New York State Department of Health and a former treasurer with local and regional branches of the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA), was indicted by a federal grand jury in Syracuse on charges of stealing more than $16,000 from the Albany union.

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