On January 8, Robert Mays, former financial secretary of United Steelworkers Local 561, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio to three years of probation and 208 hours of community service for embezzling $24,833 in funds from the union, currently based in Lancaster, Ohio. He also was ordered to make full restitution. Mays had pleaded guilty in September after being indicted in July. The actions follow an investigation by the Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.
