National Legal and Policy Center -- Organized Labor Accountability Project
 
UNION CORRUPTION UPDATE
 
November 25, 2002 -- Vol. 5, Issue 24

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

 
CARPENTERS
Ex-Great Lakes Ofc. Mgr. Charged with Embezzlement
On Oct. 25, in the U.S. Dist. Ct. for the Eastern Dist. of Mich., Dana Moore, frmr. ofc. mgr. of the Great Lakes Regional Industrial Council of the United Bhd. of Carpenters in Luna Pier, Mich., was charged in a criminal complaint with embezzling approximately $20,000 in union funds.

According to an affidavit by an investigator for the U.S. Ofc. of Labor-Mgmt. Standards, Moore committed her embezzlement between Dec. 9, 1997 and Nov. 13, 2001. In ‘97, Moore obtained a union credit card in her name without the knowledge of the Council's Chief Exec. Ofcr. and charged $6,947 to that card. She also opened a Staples ofc. supply acct. and charged $909 for electronic equipment in 2001.

In 1999, acc. to the affidavit, Moore forged the Council CEO's signature on two resolutions authorizing her to borrow or lease from the Fifth Third Bank. With those resolutions, she leased two vehicles for her personal use. Until her termination in Dec. 2001, Moore covered the rental and insurance payments by dipping into the Council's mortgage payments, diverting cancelled insurance refunds, and inflating the Council's insurance premiums without informing the Council CEO of the two extra vehicles she had leased. [DOL OLMS 11/13/02]

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