On May 8, Jeffrey Harris, former financial secretary-treasurer of Glass Workers, Molders, Pottery, Plastics and Allied Workers Local 285, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana to three years of probation and ordered to make restitution in the sum of $5,048 for embezzling funds from the Fort Wayne-based union. He had pleaded guilty in February. The actions follow an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.
