Gary Miller

Former Iowa Secretary Sentenced for Embezzlement

On May 12, Amanda Kemmer, ex-secretary for Bricklayers Local 3 in the Des Moines area, was given a 24-month prison sentence plus three years probation, and was ordered to pay full restitution for embezzling union funds.  Kemmer pleaded guilty last December in federal court to stealing more than $209,000 over the period January 1997-April 2004.  She’d pocketed about $175,000 of that by using a rubber stamp to write herself checks, and raked in the rest by altering pay stubs and pilfering cash.   (OLMS, 5/27).

 

Frmr Pres. Admits Embezzlement in Del. Fed. Court

On January 20, in the U.S. District Court for Delaware, Gary Miller, former president of Local 2372, United Auto Workers, pled guilty to the embezzlement of union funds in excess of $5,000. Miller was indicted on October 12, 2004, following an investigation by the Philadelphia District Office of the U.S. Ofc. of Labor Mgmt. Standards. [OLMS, 1/29/05]

 

Ex-President Sentenced in Va. Fed. Court

On October 19, in the U.S. Dist. Court for the West. Dist. of Virginia, James L. Power IV, former president of the Virginia Loomis Fargo Employees Union, was sentenced to a suspended six-month incarceration and placed on two years probation for one count of filing a false report and one count of failure to file reports in order to conceal his embezzlement.  The sentence for each count will run concurrently.  Power was ordered to attend mental health treatment, make full restitution of $7,300, pay a $50 special assessment, and complete 200 hours of community service. On July 23, he pled guilty to the charges following an investigation by the Washington Dist. Ofc. of the U.S. Ofc. of Labor Mgmt. Standards.

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