On June 26, Harold Ray, former secretary of National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Branch 469 and the NALC Alabama State Association, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama to two months in prison and three years of supervised release for embezzling funds from the two labor organizations, located, respectively, in Mobile and Birmingham. He also was ordered to pay combined restitution in the amount of $31,954 plus a $100 special assessment. Ray had been indicted in January for embezzling $38,565; he pled guilty in March. The actions follow a probe by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.
