William "Willie" Brown was in charge of overseeing his union's finances. Unfortunately, he thought nobody would oversee him. Brown, 53, was sentenced to five years probation on April 28 in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas for embezzling from Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 237 in Texarkana, where he had served as apprenticeship and training coordinator. He also will have to pay $4,942 in restitution, a small fraction of the amount he allegedly stole.
