On July 12, Pamela Hinzman, former treasurer of American Postal Workers Union Local 1580, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia to five years of probation and ordered to pay $22,304.22 in restitution and a $100 special assessment for embezzlement from the Parkersburg union. She had been charged in January for stealing $26,260.68 and pleaded guilty in March. The actions follow an investigation by the Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.
