Ray Lineweber has decided that pleading guilty wasn’t such a bad idea after all. On January 9, Lineweber, former legislative director of the United Transportation Union, Nebraska Legislative Board, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska to embezzling $102,907 in funds from the Omaha-based union. He had been indicted in November on one count of embezzlement, one count of mail fraud, and 15 counts of false financial record-keeping. Then, on December 2, he declined a plea deal offered by prosecutors. The actions follow an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.
