On September 3, Bonnie Nixon, former secretary-treasurer of International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Local Lodge W443, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi to three years of probation, including six months of home confinement, for embezzling $15,981.66 in funds from the Laurel-based union. She also was ordered to pay $16,368 in restitution. Nixon had been indicted last December and pleaded guilty in April. The actions follow a probe by the Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.
