On March 25, Ronald Martin, former bookkeeper for International Union of Operating Engineers Local 9, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado to five months of probation, and ordered to pay $30,338 in restitution and a $200 assessment, for embezzling funds from the Denver union. In addition, the court rejected his petition for an exemption from Section 504 of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act, which bars persons convicted of certain crimes from serving as a union official or employee for at least 13 years. Martin pleaded guilty last November after being charged in October. The actions follow a probe by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.
