National Legal and Policy Center -- Organized Labor Accountability Project
 
UNION CORRUPTION UPDATE
 
March 3, 2003 -- Vol. 6, Issue 5

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

 
ALLIED INDISTRIAL WORKERS (PACE)
Ex-Secy.-Treasurer Sentenced in NY Fed. Ct. for Theft
On February 11, 2003, in the U.S. Dist. Ct. for the West. District of New York, David Koch, former secretary-treasurer of PACE Local Union #1-236, was sentenced to two years of probation and 40 hours of community service after pleading guilty to filing a false union report. Koch was ordered to continuing making restitution to the union in the remaining amount of $9,445. The charges were brought following an investigation by the Buffalo branch of the U.S. Ofc. of Labor-Mgmt. Standards. [OLMS 2/20/03] 

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