BAKERY WORKERS (BC&T)
Virginia Boss Charged with $38,000 Theft
A federal grand jury indicted Donnie Lee Block, ex-president of Bakery
Confectionery & Tobacco Workers Int'l Union Local 66 in Portsmouth,
Va., Sept. 20 on embezzling union funds. The indictment alleged that
Block "did embezzle, steal and unlawfully can willfully abstract and convert
to his own use and the use of another approximately $38,702.55" of the
local's money between Oct. 1997 and Oct. 1998. Reportedly, Block
wrote checks to himself and withdrew funds for his own use. Local
66 represents a mere 10 workers. [Virginian-Pilot 9/21/00]
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