On February 17, Steven Boyles, formerly secretary-treasurer and vice president of American Postal Workers Union Local 189, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas to one year of probation and 100 hours of community service for wire fraud against the Little Rock union. He also was ordered to pay a $2,500 fine and a $100 assessment. Boyles, along with local President Lance Hinerman and Craft Clerk Director Daniel Cassidy, had been indicted in September 2009 on a combined 200 counts, mostly for wire fraud. Boyles pleaded guilty last September. The sentencing follows an investigation by the Labor Department's Office of Labor-Management Standards and the U.S. Postal Service's Office of Inspector General.
On September 2, the current president and two former officers of Local 189 of the American Postal Workers Union were indicted in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas on a combined 200 counts, almost all of them wire fraud. Accused are Lance Hinerman, Steven Boyles and Daniel Cassidy, respectively, current president, former vice president and former craft clerk director of the union, which represents more than 700 postal employees in the Little Rock area. The indictments follow a joint investigation by the Labor Department's Office of Labor-Management Standards and the U.S. Postal Service's Office of Inspector General.
