On April 1, Katherine Jones, former financial secretary of Local 780 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama to three years probation and ordered to make restitution of $4,710.17 to the Eufaula union for making a false statement on financial records. She had pleaded guilty in January. The guilty plea and sentencing follow a probe by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.
