On April 13, Joe Self, former president of United Steelworkers Local 771, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota to five years probation and ordered to pay $37,571.09 in restitution and a $50 special assessment for destruction of union records. He pled guilty in November 2008. The local is based in Fort Worth, Texas. The actions follow a probe by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.