National Legal and Policy Center -- Organized Labor Accountability
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UNION CORRUPTION UPDATE
January 6, 2003 -- Vol. 6, Issue 1
For Influential Leaders & Important Decision Makers:
Information on America's most corrupt & aggressive unions
ELECTRICAL WORKERS (IBEW)
Ex-Secy.-Treasurer Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement in Tenn. Fed. Ct.
On Dec. 18, 2002, in the U.S. Dist. Ct. for the Middle Dist. of Tenn.,
a plea agreement was filed in which Robert "Blackie" Emery, Sr., former
secretary-treasurer for Local 429 of the Intl. Bhd. of Electrical Wrkrs.,
pled guilty to one count of embezzling approximately $5,200 from Local
429 and one count of failure to file a required officer report, Form LM-30.
The charges were brought following an investigation by the Nashville branch
of the U.S. Ofc. of Labor-Mgmt. Standards. [DOL OLMS 1/2/03]
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