On August 4, Gary Barner, former treasurer of United Steelworkers Local 518, was indicted in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia on one count of embezzling more than $10,000 in funds from the Rome, Georgia union between August 4, 2004 and September 13, 2006. The indictment follows an investigation by the Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.
