Rachetta Johnson

Cincinnati Contractors Sentenced for Defrauding Local

Submitted by Carl Horowitz on Mon, 10/23/2006 - 00:00

On September 22, Rachetta Johnson and Charlene Monroe, co-owners of a contracting firm, Electrical Innovations, each were sentenced in Hamilton County, Ohio, Court of Common Pleas, to five years probation and 500 hours of community service for their roles in defrauding a market recovery fund of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 212.  The fund assists union contractors in bidding for jobs against non-union contractors by enabling contractors to collect wage difference.  Johnson and Monroe conducted an invoice overpayment scam.  During July 2002-December 2003, they billed the local for hours that members hadn’t worked.  Earlier in the month, the pair pleaded guilty to theft by deception.  At their sentencing, the court also ordered them to pay $26,448 in restitution.  Another defendant, Michael Griffie, has been charged with theft of at least $100,000 in property or services.

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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