GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES (AFSCME)
Three Local 1549 Bosses Plead Guilty
Three more officials of AFSCME Dist. Council 37 have pled guilty to
plundering union funds for vacation cruises and other personal use. Lionel
Scott, Mary Wilson and Eugene Bruno all pled guilty Oct. 11 in Manhattan
to larceny charges. All were associated with Local 1549. The guilty
pleas in this set of indictments leaves ex-Local 1549 president Al Diop
as the only defendant.
The indictments involved the use of union expense funds for personal use, and were not directly related to other larceny indictments or the rigging of a contract ratification vote with the city. The three had been scheduled to go on trial with Diop later this month, but abruptly agreed to plead guilty before N.Y. Justice William Leibovitz. Scott agreed to a sentence of 1.5 to 4.5 years in prison for grand larceny; Wilson to 2 to 6 years for grand larceny; and Bruno to 3 years probation for a misdemeanor attempted grand larceny. [Newsday (N.Y.) 10/13/00]
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