On January 9, Mark Valerio, former president of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 249 and executive board member of IBEW System Council U-7, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York to one year of probation and 500 hours of community service for making false entries in union financial records to cover up embezzlement. The local is based in Geneva, N.Y. and the council is based in Johnson City, N.Y. Valerio also was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $39,049 and a $500 fine. He had pleaded guilty in September. The actions follow a probe by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.
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