On September 23, Alyson Harmon, former office employee for United Brotherhood of Carpenters Local 281, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York for embezzling $20,482 during July 2006-June 2008 from the Binghamton-based union. She had been indicted in June. The indictment and plea follow a probe by the Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.
