Jeffrey Kenney

Graphics Workers Secretary-Treasurer in Ohio Sentenced for Theft

Submitted by Carl Horowitz on Fri, 11/12/2010 - 19:47

On July 21, Jeffrey Kenney, former secretary-treasurer for Graphic Communications International Union Local 205-C, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio to four months incarceration to be followed by two years of supervised release, including four months of electronic monitoring. Indicted in February, he pleaded guilty in May. Kenney had been charged by federal prosecutors with embezzling $14,388 from the Youngstown-based union over a three-year period and then filing a false financial report with the Labor Department to conceal a portion of his thefts.

Graphic Communications Workers Treasurer in Ohio Pleads Guilty

Submitted by Carl Horowitz on Fri, 08/20/2010 - 17:08

On May 14, Jeffrey Kenney, former secretary-treasurer of Graphic Communications International Union Local 205-C in Youngstown, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio to embezzling $10,305.70 in union funds and filing a false financial report. He had been indicted in February for embezzling more than $14,000. The GCIU has been affiliated with the Teamsters since the start of 2005. The guilty plea follows a probe by the Labor Department's Office of Labor-Management Standards.

Secretary-Treasurer of NE Ohio Graphic Workers Local Indicted for Embezzlement

Submitted by Carl Horowitz on Tue, 02/16/2010 - 20:01

For three years Jeffrey Kenney used his union local as a private bank. Those days are now over. On February 2, a Cleveland federal grand jury announced it had indicted Kenney, formerly secretary-treasurer of Graphic Communications International Union Local 205-C in Youngstown, on charges of embezzling $14,388. The indictment also charges that Kenney filed a false financial report for 2004 with the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) on which he knowingly understated the sum of disbursements by nearly $6,000.

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