On July 15, Kristine Stephens, former administrative assistant and bookkeeper for Local 567 of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada to 10 months of home confinement with electronic monitoring, five years of probation and 100 hours of community service for embezzling funds from the Sparks-based union. She also was ordered to pay $81,564 in restitution and a $100 assessment. Stephens had pleaded guilty in March after being charged last November. The actions follow an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.
