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Texas Secretary-Treasurer Pleads Guilty to Thefts

Submitted by Carl Horowitz on Mon, 03/10/2008 - 00:00

Kyle Batts tried to make ends meet on his union credit card.  He wasn’t thinking ahead.  On February 27, Batts, 38, former secretary-treasurer of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 738, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas to embezzling $40,580.83 in union assets.  Roughly during the period April 2003-August 2006, he used a union credit card to pay for personal expenses.  The union is based in Longview, about an hour and a half east of Dallas.  The guilty plea follows an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.  (States News Service, 2/27/08; OLMS, 3/6/08).

 

Tennessee Local President Sentenced for Embezzlement

Texas Boss Charged with Embezzlement from Training Fund

Submitted by Carl Horowitz on Mon, 12/17/2007 - 01:00

A union job-training program isn’t a cookie jar.  Somehow that didn’t impress Willie Brown.  Brown, 52, was indicted in federal court for the Eastern District of Texas this April for embezzling at least $80,000 from the Apprenticeship and Training Fund of United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 237.  Brown, who previously had served as president and training fund coordinator of the Texarkana union, committed eight alleged acts of theft during 1997-2002.  The charges came in the wake of a joint investigation by the Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards and Employee Benefits Security Administration.  (U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General, April 1-September 30, 2007; John T. Floyd Law Firm, 12/10/07).  

 

Delta Airlines Union Treasurer Sentenced for Embezzlement

Ex-Treasurer of Texas Local Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement

Submitted by Carl Horowitz on Mon, 09/24/2007 - 00:00

On August 31, Judy Thurman, former treasurer of Federated Independent Texas Union Local 900, pled guilty in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas to one count of embezzling union funds totaling $164,268.50.  Thurman, who had served at her union post for nearly two years, originally had been indicted on 19 counts.  FITU Local 900 represents Lockheed Aerospace workers in Ft. Worth.  The plea follows an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department.  (OLMS, 9/21/07). 

 

Oklahoma Local President Sentenced for False Record-Keeping

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