On June 5, James A. Pulsifer, a certified public accountant, was sentenced to one year of probation and fined $1,000 for knowingly making false entries in the annual Labor Department reporting form of the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA). In the course of making accounting adjustments, he had misclassified some $500,000 in union expenditures. SPEEA officers who signed the report believed it was free of errors and in compliance with federal regulations. Pulsifer was charged in November and pleaded guilty in February. The union, based in Seattle, represents professional employees of Boeing, BAE Systems and other aerospace companies. The action comes in the wake of an investigation by the Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards. (OLMS, 6/15/07).
Former Treasurer of Atlanta Union Indicted for Embezzlement
