Linda Y. Brown

Wisconsin Ex-Local President Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement

On January 13, Rebecca Bandt, ex-president of Local 717 of the United Food & Commercial Workers, pled guilty in U.S. District Court to one count of embezzling union funds totaling more than $14,000.  She had been indicted on a variety of charges in September.  The guilty plea follows an investigation by the Labor Department.  (OLMS, 2/3).

 

Nebraska Local Treasurer Charged with Embezzlement

Crime paid well for Antoinette Cox-Burress – at least for three and a half years.  But now the former treasurer of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1293, in Lincoln, stands accused of stealing $14,663 from the union.  During June 2001-December 2004, Lancaster County prosecutors allege, she embezzled funds from the local account at First Choice Credit Union in Lincoln.  Officers served a search warrant at the credit union on September 22, and determined that she had made 42 unauthorized withdrawals.  In some cases, Cox-Burress took cash; in others, she transferred funds to another personal account at the union.  She posted a $300 bond and

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