On March 20, John Vetterly Jr., former president of Utility Workers Union of American Local 475, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania to embezzling $26,605 in funds from the Pittsburgh-area union. He had been indicted last October along with Local 475 Secretary-Treasurer John Baranski, the latter of whom had been accused of stealing $4,246 in union funds. The actions follow an investigation by the Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.
