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Secretary-Treasurer in Chicago Area Indicted for Embezzlement

On March 8, Keith H. Cook, former secretary-treasurer for United Transportation Union Local 620, was indicted in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois for embezzling more than $48,000 in union funds and making a false entry in union records.  Local 620 represents employees of the Burlington Santa Fe Railway in Cicero, Illinois.  (OLMS, 3/30/07). 

 

Michigan Secretary-Treasurer Sentenced for Cover-up of Thefts

Arizona Former Local President Sentenced for Embezzlement

On December 14, Josefina Suarez Gonzalez, ex-president of AFGE Local 1662, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona to five years probation and ordered to pay $27,405 to her union.  Gonzalez had pleaded guilty back in June to one count of embezzling union funds following an indictment back in October 2004.  The union represents employees at the Brown & Root Logistics facility at Fort Huachuca Army Base, not far from Tucson.  The sentencing follows an investigation by the Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.  (OLMS, 12/23/06).

 

New Jersey Financial Secretary Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement

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