On January 8, Maria Del Cupolo, former bookkeeper for Operative Plasterers & Cement Masons International Association Local 300, was charged in the Superior Court of California, County of Alameda, with five counts of grand theft in a combined amount of more than $65,000 from the Oakland-based union, plus four counts of money laundering. The charges follow a probe by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.
