Michael Kennedy

Former Montana Treasurer Sentenced for Embezzlement

Submitted by Carl Horowitz on Mon, 02/12/2007 - 11:46

Michael Kennedy no longer will have his union to pay for personal expenses.  On February 1, the former secretary-treasurer for Local 720 of the International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to five years probation for embezzling $15,612.81.  Kennedy, 46, had written 84 unauthorized union checks to himself, cash and third parties during October 22, 2003-March 22, 2005.  Court records state he also forged the names of other officials of the Butte, Montana local, and made false entries in its books to conceal the thefts.  The thefts were discovered when nine of the checks bounced.  Kennedy pleaded guilty last fall.  (Associated Press, 2/2/07).     

 

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Ex-Los Angeles Local President Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement

Submitted by Carl Horowitz on Mon, 11/20/2006 - 01:00

Few observers gave Janett Humphries much of a chance when she decided to take her case to trial.  In the end, even she didn’t give herself much of a chance.  On November 13, the 63-year-old former president of Service Employees International Union Local 99 pleaded guilty in federal court to charges she had embezzled more than $30,000 from her union to help finance Martin Ludlow’s successful 2003 run for Los Angeles City Council.  She used the funds to pay for travel expenses and a cell phone for Ludlow’s campaign staff, plus personal air travel costs.  Ludlow stepped down from his council post in 2005 to head the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, but pleaded guilty to a federal conspiracy charge early this year.  Sentencing for Humphries is set for next February.  She already has pleaded guilty to separate local charges.  (Associated Press, 11/14/06).

 

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