On January 11, James Drury, former secretary-treasurer of Local 3121 of the Communications Workers of America, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida to embezzling $306,757.53 from the Hialeah union during December 2005-March 2009. He had been charged in December. The guilty plea follows a joint probe by the Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards and Office of Inspector General.
