Denise Crear pled no contest to embezzling more than $264,000 from the North. Wisc. Regional Council of Carpenters on Aug. 16. Crear entered her plea before Outagamie County Circuit Judge John Des Jardins, who scheduled sentencing for Oct. 6. Crerar was originally charged with 26 counts of embezzlement for taking money over a three-year period while she was employed at the regional council. During that time period she wrote about 200 checks to herself and created vendor receipts for the amounts to cover her tracks. To sign the checks, she would forge signatures or use a signature stamp. According to Asst. Dist. Attny. Angela Boelter, prosecutors will seek a 10-year prison sentence as well as five years of extended supervision and restitution for Crerar. [Appleton Post-Crescent, 8/17/04]
Son of Frmr. N.Y. Union Chief Indicted
The son of union kingpin Edward Doyle Sr. has been formally indicted on 2 counts of obstruction of justice. He was arrested on June 23, and was arraigned on August 24 before U.S. Dist. Judge Kimba Wood (S.D. NY, Reagan). He is accused of falsifying a log book so as to make it appear that he had worked at a construction site, which in fact, he never showed up at. Scott is the son of Edward Doyle, Sr., who ran Local 456 of the Intl. Bhd. of Teamsters until he was forced to resign in 1999 based on reports of corruption in his running of the Local. His brother, Bernard, took over the union until 2003, when the Teamsters Independent Review Board (IRB) found that financial mismanagement and self-dealing had continued at the local union, and IBT pres. James Hoffa imposed a temporary trustee. [Journal-News, 8/25/04]
Ex-Secy.-Treasurer Indicted for Embezzlement in Miss. Fed. Court
On August 10, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, James E. Pearson, former secretary-treasurer of Communications Workers of America Local 3550, was indicted for embezzling $28,686 in union funds. The charge alleged that he negotiated unauthorized checks payable to cash from the union’s checking account. The indictment follows an investigation by the New Orleans District Office of the U.S. Ofc. of Labor-Mgmt. Standards. [OLMS, 8/24/04]
Ex-Pres. Charged in Penn. Fed. Court
On August 12, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, an information — signifying his cooperation — was filed charging Terry Aldrich, former president of the Westfield Tanning Employees Association, with one count of embezzling $39,000 in union funds. The charges were brought following an investigation by the Philadelphia District Office of the U.S. Ofc. of Labor-Mgmt. Standards. [OLMS, 8/24/04]
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Frmr. Secy.-Treasurer Sentenced for Embezzlement in Miss. Fed. Court
On August 10, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, Ivory Green, the former secretary-treasurer of American Postal Workers Union Local 968, was sentenced to three years probation; he will serve the first six months in a home confinement program. Green was also ordered to make restitution in the amount of $19,079. On June 1, 2004, he pled guilty to one count of embezzlement in the amount of $14,484, following an investigation by the New Orleans District Office of the U.S. Ofc. of Labor-Mgmt. Standards [OLMS, 8/24/04]
Frmr. Secy.-Treasurer Indicted in Ill. Fed. Court
On August 18, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Derrick Thomas, former secretary-treasurer of Glass, Molders, & Plastics Union Local 138, was indicted on one count of embezzlement of $10,297.72 in union funds. The charge alleges that he negotiated unauthorized checks by forging the president’s co-signature and making them payable to himself from the union’s checking account. The charge follows an investigation by the Chicago District Office of the U.S. Ofc. of Labor-Mgmt. Standards. [OLMS, 8/24/04]
Ex-Secy. Treasurer Sentenced in Indiana Fed. Court
On August 16, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, Michael Updike, former secretary-treasurer of Glass, Molders, & Plastics Union Local 285, was sentenced to five years probation for embezzlement. Updike was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $9,343 and a special assessment of $100. The sentence follows an investigation by the Chicago District Office of the U.S. Ofc. of Labor-Mgmt. Standards. [OLMS, 8/24/04]