On September 10, Joseph Moon, Jr., former president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1626, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey to a criminal information count of receiving improper loans. He had obtained $14,931 in unapproved loans from the Edison, N.J. (Middlesex County) union. The guilty plea follows an investigation by the Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.
