Sharon K. Schmenk

Ohio Boss Gets 3 Months at home for $19,100 Theft

Submitted by Michael Nelson on Mon, 03/04/2002 - 01:00

U.S. Dist. Judge David A. Katz (N.D. Ohio, Clinton) sentenced the ex-treasurer of the Lima (Ohio) Mem'l Prof'l Nurses Ass'n, Sharon K. Schmenk, Feb. 1 to three years probation, the first six months to be spent in home confinement. She must wear an ankle monitor, which costs  $4.95 a day. She must pay for the monitor (approximately $891). Katz also ordered the boss to to make full restitution. She pled guilty Oct. 5 to embezzling $19,170 in union funds.  [DOL 2/1/02; USAO N.D. Ohio 2/25/02]


Minnesota Boss Gets Probation for False Entries, Paid $18,700 in Restitution
On Feb. 25, in the U.S. Dist. Court for the Dist. of Minn., Judy Domning, ex-executive director of the Minn. Licensed Practical Nurses Ass'n and ex-executive director of the Technical Employees Ass'n of Minn., was convicted of making a false statement by making false entries in union records. She was sentenced to two years probation and barred from employment by unions "for life." She had pled guilty on Aug. 24 and had previously made restitution of $18,772.

Southern California Staffer Embezzled $110,000

Submitted by Michael Nelson on Mon, 10/22/2001 - 00:00

U.S. Dist. Judge Ronald S.W. Lew (C.D. Cal., Reagan) sentenced Wilfield Bloomfield, United Bhd. of Carpenters Local 1553's ex-bookkeeper, Oct. 16 to 15 months in federal prison for embezzling more than $110,000 from the local in Hawthorne, Cal. Lew put Bloomfield on 3 years probation and ordered him to pay $110,887 in restitution to the local, which is also known as the Elec. & Space Technicians Local 1553. He pled guilty in June. Bloomfield reportedly stole the money over a 2-year period ending in April 2000."Bloomfield allegedly stole pre-signed checks, made the checks payable to himself, then cashed them at a nearby check-cashing outlet and used the money for personal purposes. [City News Serv. 10/16/01]

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