Arthur Penn represented Defense Department security employees. Under his control, however, the funds were less than secure. On March 25, Penn, formerly chairman of the Defense Protective Service Labor Committee Pentagon, an affiliate of the Fraternal Order of Police, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to one count of wire fraud in connection with his embezzlement of approximately $384,000 from the Arlington, Va.-based union. He had been charged last November after a grand jury had indicted him on seven counts of wire fraud. The actions follow a joint probe by the FBI and the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards. He is scheduled for sentencing on July 2.
Penn, now 64, during 1999-2015 served as chairman of his union, which represents employees of the Pentagon Force Protection Agency. For much of this time, prosecutors alleged, Penn embezzled funds for unauthorized personal activities that … Read More ➡