On July 1, Alfonso Rodriguez, former secretary-treasurer for United Transportation Union (SMART) Local 117, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington to three years of probation and 160 hours of community service for false financial reporting. He also was ordered to make restitution in the amount of $34,601 to the Southworth (Kitsap County), Wash.-based union. Rodriguez had pleaded guilty in March following an investigation by the Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.
