POLICE UNIONS
National Boss Charged with $50,000 Embezzlement
Federal prosecutors charged union boss Dennis Chiocchi Feb. 9 with
embezzling more than $50,000 from the Am. Fed'n of Railroad Police. Chiocchi,
formerly of Melville, N.Y., and now of Villas, N.J., allegedly embezzled
the funds between 1995 and 1998 when he was secretary-treasurer and then
president of AFRP, which serves Amtrak and is based in Woodbury, N.Y.
John McGlynn of the Dep't of Labor's Inspector General's Office in Manhattan
said Chiocchi used union funds for personal travel and a Jeep Grand Cherokee.
Chiocchi left the force after losing reelection. He was arraigned in U.S.
Dist. Court in Newark, N.J., Feb. 9 on a charge of embezzlement and released
without bail. [Newsday; N.Y. Times 02/14/01]
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