On September 8, Henry Hull Jr., former secretary-treasurer of Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees Division Lodge 654, a Teamsters affiliate, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee to one year of home confinement with electronic monitoring and three years of probation for embezzling funds from the Southaven, Miss. (Memphis-area) union. He also was ordered to pay a fine of $1,500 and an assessment of $100. Hull had pleaded guilty in June after being indicted in January for theft in the amount of $8,240. The actions follow an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.
