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Retired Maryland Officer Pleads Guilty to Thefts

Submitted by Carl Horowitz on Mon, 02/12/2007 - 01:00

Of all the motives for corruption by union officials and members, few are more disheartening, or these days common, as the need to cover gambling losses.  Donald Lee Travis, a retired officer with the Frederick, Md. police force, is the latest example.  Travis, 67, pleaded guilty in Frederick County Circuit Court on February 6 to embezzling at least $45,000 from his Fraternal Order of Police lodge to support a slot-machine habit, receiving a suspended five-year sentence.  A 30-year veteran of the force, he admitted he stole from the lodge, which he managed during 2004 and 2005.  He regularly played the slot machines at Charles Town Races and Slots, located in nearby Charles Town, West Virginia, spending around $500 to $600 per trip.  Travis should have bet on the horses – or found something else to do.  (Associated Press, 2/7/07).

 

Ex-Milwaukee Local Bosses Charged in Superseding Indictment

Detroit Ex-Local Secretary Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement

Submitted by Carl Horowitz on Mon, 10/09/2006 - 00:00

On August 29, Linda Holden, former financial secretary-treasurer for Local 639 of the United Steelworkers of America, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan to one count of embezzlement of union funds in the amount of $74,090.  The guilty plea follows an investigation by the Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.  USWA Local 639 previously had been affiliated with the Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical and Energy Workers (PACE), where it was known as Local 6-639.  The change in affiliation is due to a merger, approved in April 2005, of the Steelworkers and PACE.  The new umbrella organization is known as the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union.  (OLMS, 9/25/06).

 

Former Local Business Agent in Southern Minnesota Charged

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