On May 30, Wayne Boudoin, formerly president of Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America Local 709, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana to embezzling $16,367.96 in funds from the Houma, La. union over a more than seven-year period. He had been charged in April. The charge and guilty plea follow an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.