Kenneth T. Lyons, the president of the Nat'l Ass'n of Gov't Employees, was removed from office Nov. 5 and permanently barred from participating in union activities after a union hearing on charges that he attempted to obstruct a state ethics probe by falsifying union records. Lyons, who served as NAGE president for 40 years, denied any wrongdoing after being charged in July with altering and destroying union records relating to a dozen or so meals he had with James Hartnett, undersecretary of the Mass. Div. of Admin. & Fin. Lyons was also accused of trying to "involve other union officers in a scheme to thwart an investigation of Hartnett and of attempting to mislead state investigators."
