National Legal and Policy Center -- Organized Labor Accountability Project
 
UNION CORRUPTION UPDATE
 
August 5, 2002 -- Vol. 5, Issue 16

For Influential Leaders & Important Decision Makers:
Information on America's most corrupt & aggressive unions

TRANSPORTATION-COMMUNICATION UNION (TCIU)
WVa. Official Indicted for Embezzlement
On July 2, 2002, in Wayne County (West Virginia) court, Dwight D. Icenhower, former secretary-treasurer of Transportation Communication Workers Lodge 6455, was indicted on one count of embezzling $3,953.44 in union funds. The charges were brought following an investigation by the OLMS Pittsburgh District Office. [DOL]

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