On July 29, Jacquelyn Pugh-Rodgers, former vice president of American Federation of Government Employees Local 2107, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois to three years probation, six months of which would be in community confinement, for mail fraud. She also was ordered to pay $35,663 in restitution and a special assessment of $100. AFGE Local 2107 is based in North Chicago, Ill. (Lake County) and represents employees of the North Chicago VA Medical Center. Pugh-Rodgers had pleaded guilty in March after being indicted with two other local members, James Charleston and Mary Craigen, in July 2012 on two counts of mail fraud and one count of embezzlement. The actions follow a probe by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.
