On September 12, Juan Evereteze, former president of American Federation of Government Employees Local 3258, admitted to a sufficient finding of facts in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Suffolk County Superior Court for larceny. He then was sentenced to four years of probation, the first year of which would be supervised, and ordered to pay $38,000 in restitution. An Alford plea, though not a formal guilty plea, is an admission that the facts as presented are sufficient for a conviction. Local 3258 represents employees of the Boston Regional Office of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The actions follow a probe by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.… Read More ➡
Union Corruption Update
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Wisconsin AFSCME Vice President Pleads Guilty; Ordered to Pay Restitution
On September 10, Jennifer Conway, former vice president of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 727D, pleaded guilty in Dunn County, Wisconsin Circuit Court to one count of misdemeanor theft from the Menomonie union, and then was ordered to pay court costs of $458. She previously had paid restitution in the amount of $250 after being charged this June. The actions follow a probe by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.… Read More ➡
Mississippi CWA President Sentenced for Embezzlement
The consequences of theft were far more expensive than Danny Woodcock had anticipated. On August 29, Woodcock, ex-president of Communications Workers of America Local 83770, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi to 46 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $519,963.04 in restitution and a $100 special assessment for stealing more than $300,000 in funds from the Columbus, Miss. union. Woodcock had pleaded guilty in August 2018 after being indicted in November 2017. The actions follow an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.
Communications Workers Local 83770 represents between 300 and 400 employees of L3 Vertex Aerospace, LLC, an engineering and maintenance contractor operating at Columbus Air Force Base. According to prosecutors, Woodcock, now 66, a resident of Caledonia (Lowndes County), Miss., not only headed the union but stole from it … Read More ➡
AFGE President in Washington, D.C. Pleads Guilty to Transporting Stolen Funds
On September 12, Audonus Duplessis, former president of American Federation of Government Employees Local 2463, pleaded guilty to one count of interstate transportation of stolen property in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in connection with his moving $11,300 worth of stolen funds from the Washington, D.C.-based union to Virginia for the purpose of buying a car. The total sum stolen from the union, which represents Smithsonian Institution employees, exceeded $80,000. The actions follow a probe by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.… Read More ➡
CWA Local Secretary-Treasurer in West Virginia Indicted
On September 4, Eric Childress, former secretary-treasurer of Communications Workers of America Local 2276, was indicted in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia on one count of embezzlement of funds in the sum of $2,619 from the Bluefield, W.Va.-based union. The charge follows a probe by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.… Read More ➡
Michigan Steelworkers Treasurer Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement
On September 3, Stephen Perez, former treasurer of United Steelworkers Local 402, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan to one count of embezzling $14,408.05 in funds from the Grandville (near Grand Rapids) union. He had been indicted for embezzlement and records falsification in April. The actions follow an investigation by the Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.… Read More ➡
IATSE Treasurer in Massachusetts Sentenced for Embezzlement
On August 30, Ivar Carlson, former business agent and treasurer of International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local B-935, was sentenced to one year of probation for embezzling funds from the now-defunct Worcester-based union. He also was ordered to forfeit $16,151 in assets and pay $9,786 in restitution on top of the $6,775 he already paid. Carlson, a resident of Auburn, Mass., during March 2007-September 2016 had written or cashed union checks for unauthorized purposes. He had pleaded guilty this March to stealing $37,014 after being charged last December. The actions follow an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.… Read More ➡
AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer in Indiana Charged with Theft
On August 28, Eleanor Harvey, former secretary-treasurer of American Federation of State, County and Local Employees Local 3826, was charged in Marion County, Indiana Superior Court with two counts of theft of funds from the Indianapolis union totaling between $750 and $50,000 following a grand jury indictment. The charge follows a joint investigation by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards and the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office.
President of Civilian Technicians Local in Iowa Charged with Fraud
On August 23, Gregg Pedersen, former president of Association of Civilian Technicians Local 75, was charged in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa with wire fraud in the sum of $6,320 against the Sioux City-based union. The charge follows an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.… Read More ➡
Laborers Organizer in Phoenix Charged with Theft; Pleads Guilty
On August 23, Mitchell Sharp, a Phoenix-based former organizer for the Laborers International Union of North America, was charged in U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona with one count of theft from an Indian Health Service local office in Phoenix in an amount of more than $1,000. He then pleaded guilty. Sharp allegedly had made unauthorized use of his union credit card. The charge and plea follow a probe by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.… Read More ➡