TEAMSTERS (IBT)
Ex-Ky Pres. Used Union Funds to Pay Off Car Lease
Kenneth Stacy pled guilty on Sept. 26 in the U.S. Dist. Ct. in Lexington,
Ky., to one felony count of union embezzlement. The frmr. president of
Intl. Bhd. of Teamsters Local 651 admitted to a scheme in which the Lexington
union paid the remaining $10,360 of the lease on Stacy's personal car in
Feb. 1998. He was Local 651's president until May 2001. Stacy entered his
guilty plea before U.S. Dist. Judge Jennifer B. Coffman (East. Dist. Ky.,
Clinton). He faces a maximum punishment of five years in prison, a $250,000
fine, and five years of supervised release, in addition to being barred
from serving as a union officer for 13 years. Judge Coffman set Stacy's
sentencing for Dec. 12, 2002 in Lexington.
Handling the investigation and prosecution, respectively, were: Daniel
Walsh, Dist. Director of the Cincinnati branch of the U.S. Dept. of Labor's
Ofc. of Labor-Mgmt. Standards, and Gregory F. Van Tatenhove, U.S. Attny.
for the East. Dist. of Ky. [U.S.A.O. E.D. Ky, DOL OLMS]
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