National Legal and Policy Center -- Organized Labor Accountability Project
 
UNION CORRUPTION UPDATE
 
December 23, 2002 -- Vol. 5, Issue 26


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


 
STEELWORKERS
Ex-Fin. Secy. Charged with Embezzlement in PA Fed. Ct.
On Dec. 4,  in the U.S. Dist. Ct. for the Middle Dist. of Penn., James Hubler, former financial secy. of Steelworkers Local 14375, was charged in an information with embezzling approximately $27,000 in union funds between May 15, 1998 and Feb. 1, 2001.

Hubler's alleged embezzlement was not limited to his role in the union. He is also charged in the Columbia County Court with embezzling $33,348 from Conyngham Township and the Schuylkill School district in Sept., 2001. The fed. charge of uynion embezzlement was brought following an investigation by the Philadelphia branch of the U.S. Ofc. of Labor-Mgmt. Standards. [DOL OLMS 12/12/02, Shamokin News-Item 12/19/02]


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