GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES (AFSCME)
Ex-Milwaukee Boss Indicted for $88,000 Theft
Robert J. Gordon, ex-financial secretary-treasurer of Am. Fed'n of
State, County & Mun. Employees Local 366 in Milwaukee was indicted
May 8 by a federal grand jury for an $88,000 union embezzlement.
He allegedly wrote more than 200 unauthorized union checks to himself between
1996-99. He held his union post from 1987-99. [Milwaukee J. Sent. 5/10/01]
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