For six years, Thomas Jon Witham's thefts went undetected. Then the law of averages caught up. Witham, 40, a resident of Mason City, Iowa, was charged with embezzling more than $52,000 from International Brotherhood of Boilermakers Lodge 106-D where he had served as secretary-treasurer. The alleged thefts from the Mason City local took place during September 2002-August 2006. Witham appeared in court on July 28 after the federal grand jury indictment was unsealed. He faces a five-year prison sentence.
On December 8, Thomas Jon Witham, former financial secretary of International Brotherhood of Boilermakers Local 106-D, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa to 21 months in prison for embezzling $52,037.19 from the Mason City union during the period September 2002-August 2006. He had pleaded guilty in September. The sentencing follows a probe by the U.S. Labor Department's Office of Labor-Management Standards.
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