On March 26, Dianna Woodall pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to one count of bank theft, and one count of aiding and abetting, for her role in cashing a $9,836 counterfeit check drawn on the account of Marine Engineers Beneficial Association (MEBA) District 1, located in Washington, D.C., along with the union’s national headquarters. Woodall had been charged on March 13. Earlier, on March 6, Kenneth Marshall Jr. pleaded guilty in the same court to cashing two counterfeit checks totaling $18,851 drawn on the MEBA District 1 bank account. A union spokesman had indicated that Marshall, not a union member, engaged in identity theft. The prosecutions follow a joint probe by the FBI and the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards and Office of Inspector General.
