On January 7, Michael Pontician, former financial secretary for United Steelworkers Local 480, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania to two years of probation for falsifying union financial records in an effort to conceal his embezzlement of funds from the Pottsville (Schuylkill County), Pa.-based union. He also was ordered pay restitution in the amount of $2,626. Pontician had pleaded guilty in August. The guilty plea and sentencing follow an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department’s of Labor-Management Standards.
