MACHINISTS
Ex-Pres. Indicted for Embezzlement in Wisc.
An ex-union President in Sheboygan Falls was indicted Aug. 6 by a fed.
grand jury on four counts of embezzlement and falsification of records.
From 1995 to 1999, Steven Pautz was President of Lodge 251 of the Intl.
Assn. of Machinists. According to the indictment, Pautz stole $12,257 by
writing unauthorized checks to himself, and by making unauthorized withdrawls
from the Lodge's savings accounts. In some cases, Pautz allegedly forged
the signature of the financial secy. on the checks. The charges were brought
following an investigation by the Milwaukee Ofc. of the U.S. Dept. of labor's
Ofc. of Labor-Mgmt. Standards [U.S.A.O. E.D. WI 8/6/02, DOL]
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