On January 8, Monica Peaslee, former office manager of International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 533, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada to four years probation for embezzling funds from the Reno union. She also was ordered to pay $12,479.99 in restitution. Peaslee pled guilty in October to embezzling $13,156 and falsifying union records. The sentencing follows an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.
