Running a labor union and a credit union at the same time may be a bad combination. For Anthony Forte it was. Forte, formerly president of United Aerospace Workers Local 1069 and executive vice president of the Boeing Helicopters Credit Union (BHCU), was sentenced on February 22 in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania to 28 months in prison and ordered to pay more than $1.25 million in restitution for organizing a massive loan fraud and kickback scam nearly a decade ago. His ailing younger brother, David, was sentenced to (and since has served) a day in prison and was ordered to pay $178,446 in restitution. Both men had pleaded guilty in November 2009 after being charged in September 2008. Six other defendants ranging in age from 33 to 40 also were prosecuted.
