On December 19, Mark Gilbert, former financial secretary of United Steelworkers Local 805, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky to 60 days in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release for embezzlement of $8,467.10 in funds from the Florence, Ky.-based union. He also was ordered to pay full restitution and a $100 special assessment. Gilbert had been indicted last June, and pleaded guilty in August. The actions follow an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.
