On December 12, Mark Whetstone, former president of American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Local 3928 and AFGE Leadership Council 119, was charged in the Criminal Court of Lancaster County, Nebraska, with theft by deception in an amount of more than $1,500 from the Lincoln, Neb.-based local. The leadership council is based in Humble (near Houston), Texas. The charge follows a probe by the Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.
