On December 6, Cedric Hughes, former treasurer for Service Employees International Union Local 721, was indicted in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on five counts of wire fraud and one count of embezzlement of $15,193 in funds from the Los Angeles union. Hughes, who served in his position during March 2009-June 2010, wrote unauthorized union checks to himself and made unauthorized cash withdrawals and debit card transactions with his union debit card. The indictment follows an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.
