Kurt Swanstrom

Ohio Ex-Financial Secretary Sentenced for Embezzlement

Submitted by Carl Horowitz on Mon, 07/14/2008 - 00:00

On June 16, Kurt Swanstrom, former financial secretary of Steelworkers Local 5-1560, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio to three years probation and ordered to pay $12,327.52 in restitution plus a $150 special assessment.  Swanstrom pled guilty in March to embezzlement, falsification of union records and filing false financial reports.  The local is based in Ashland, Ohio.  (OLMS, 7/7/08).

 

Secretary-Treasurer in Cleveland Sentenced for Records Fraud

Submitted by Carl Horowitz on Mon, 06/30/2008 - 00:00

On June 10, Kristen Swint, former vice president and secretary treasurer of International Association of Machinists Inflight Aircraft Lodge 2339 in Cleveland, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio to two years probation and ordered to pay $30,256 in restitution.  Swint pled guilty in January to falsifying union records to cover up theft.  The sentencing follows an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.  (OLMS, 6/21/08).  

 

Former Cleveland-Area President Sentenced for Embezzlement

SW Virginia Local President Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion, Theft

Submitted by Carl Horowitz on Mon, 04/21/2008 - 00:00

At least Darrell Pendergrass knows he’s done wrong.  The former president of Local 699 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees pleaded guilty in federal court in Abingdon, Va. on April 4 to embezzling union funds and attempting to evade payroll taxes.  During his tenure as president and secretary of the photographers’ union during 2003-06, prosecutors charged, Pendergrass, a resident of Bristol, Va., diverted more than $70,000 from the union toward personal use and payroll tax evasion.  Yet hopefully the court will show leniency come sentencing on July 29.  He’s already given the court around $50,000 toward potential restitution.  IATSE Local 699 is based in the Johnson City-Kingsport-Bristol area in northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia.  (Bristol, Virginia Herald Courier, 4/10/08).     

Former General Services Manager Charged with Embezzlement

Bus Inspector for NYC Union Charged with Theft, Bribery

Submitted by Carl Horowitz on Mon, 01/14/2008 - 01:00

On December 12, Jeffrey Berger, a New York City school bus inspector, was charged in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York with one count of conspiracy to commit theft and bribery concerning programs receiving federal funds.  He was arrested and released on $1 million bond.  Operators of the buses belong to the Queens, N.Y.-based Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1181, whose recently deposed leadership has been documented to have close ties to New York’s Genovese crime family.  The charge follows a joint investigation by the FBI and the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Inspector General and Office of Labor-Management Standards.  (1/11/08).

 

Oregon Financial Secretary Indicted for Thefts, False Entries

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