Michael Griffie

Former Office Manager in North Carolina Sentenced for Thefts

Submitted by Carl Horowitz on Mon, 03/12/2007 - 00:00

On February 21, Connie Jacobs, former office manager for Local 495 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina to twelve months and one day in prison, to be followed by three years of probation, for embezzlement of union funds.  She was ordered to pay nearly $120,000 in restitution, plus a $100 special assessment fee.  Jacobs pleaded guilty in November.  IBEW Local 495 is based in Wilmington, N.C.  (OLMS, 3/5/07).  

 

Cincinnati-Area Contractor Sentenced for Thefts from Local

Cincinnati Contractor Associate Pleads No Contest to Fraud

Submitted by Carl Horowitz on Mon, 01/29/2007 - 01:00

On January 22, Michael Griffie, an associate of a Cincinnati-area contractor, Electrical Innovations, pleaded guilty in Hamilton County, Ohio Court of Common Pleas to one count of unauthorized use of property.  He had been charged back in March with aggravated theft of property or services worth at least $100,000 from International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 212, and with tampering with market recovery forms and forging market recovery fund forms for the purpose of defrauding the local.  The no-contest plea follows an investigation by the Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.  The co-owners of Electrical Innovations, Rachetta Johnson and Charlene Monroe, were sentenced last September to five years probation and 500 hours of community service after pleading guilty to theft by deception.  (OLMS, 1/25/07).

 

Ex-Office Manager in Minnesota Sentenced for Embezzlement

Southern California Ex-Secretary Sentenced for Embezzlement

Submitted by Carl Horowitz on Mon, 04/24/2006 - 00:00

Leslie Patricia Bell found out the price of stealing from a union treasury:  18 months in federal prison, three years probation, and $156,423 in restitution.  Bell, 39, had pleaded guilty last May to charges she embezzled funds from Local 1184 of the Laborers International Union of North America, which represents construction, groundskeeping and maintenance workers in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties.  Bell had been responsible for paying union bills and depositing membership dues at the union’s local office in Riverside.  Her thefts began in May 2001 and lasted until her firing in July 2003.  Most of Bell’s haul took the form of membership dues paid in cash.  She also admitted forging the name of her then-husband, the union president, on two checks totaling $22,028.  She used the money to pay off credit card debt and federal taxes, according to her plea bargain.

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