On July 12, Sofia Gonzalez, former bookkeeper for Service Employees International Union Local 925, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington to five years of probation for embezzling $40,087 from the Seattle-based union. She also was ordered to pay full restitution. Gonzalez, who had worked in the local’s Vancouver, Wash. office, had been charged in February and pleaded guilty in April. The actions follow an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.
