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Upstate New York Office Manager Pleads Guilty to Thefts

Submitted by Carl Horowitz on Mon, 11/05/2007 - 01:00

Mary Hartsock is living proof that longevity with an employer is no guarantee of honesty.  The ex-office manager for Laborers International Union of North America Local 1358, based in Elmira, N.Y., pleaded guilty on October 29 in U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York to embezzling $17,958 in funds.  Hartsock, 49, a resident of nearby Millport, N.Y., had served in her position from 1980 until January 2007.  Federal prosecutors charged that from January 2002 until her dismissal five years later, she converted union receipts to her own use by not depositing or reporting member dues payments.  The guilty plea came as the result of an investigation by the Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.  (Elmira Star-Gazette, 10/30/07; OLMS, 11/1/07).                            

 

St. Louis Ex-Financial Secretary Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement

Alabama Local Secretary Sentenced for Embezzlement

Submitted by Carl Horowitz on Mon, 03/26/2007 - 00:00

Sharon Ann Burt, secretary of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union Local 611, was sentenced in federal court to one year in prison for embezzling $72,701 in union funds.  Federal prosecutors said that Burt, 49, a resident of Fort Payne, Alabama, in the northeast part of the state, wrote checks without authorization, paid her bills with union money, and doctored bank statements delivered to her personal post office box.  She was indicted last May and pleaded guilty to embezzlement and mail fraud in October.  Local 611 represented employees at the Earthgrains plant in Fort Payne, which closed in 2005.  (Gadsden Times, 3/14/07; Huntsville Times, 3/15/07).

 

Pittsburgh-Area Local Chieftain Pleads Guilty to Thefts

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