Former Treasurer of Texas Longshoremen Local Sentenced

On August 3, Henry George Green Sr., former treasurer of Local 440 of the International Longshoremen’s Association, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas to three years probation and ordered to pay restitution of $11,565.72 for thefts from the Port Arthur union on top of the $24,000.18 in restitution he already has paid. Green had pleaded guilty in February to one count of filing a false statement or omission on a union financial report. The sentencing follows a probe by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.