On September 16, Charles Bohanon, former secretary-treasurer of Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen Division 1, was charged in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan with embezzling funds from the Petersburg, Mich. union in the amount of $18,074.23. The charge follows an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards. (OLMS, 10/12/08).
West Virginia Ex-Secretary Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement