BLET Secretary in West Virginia Sentenced for Embezzlement

On August 10, Nathan McCallister, former secretary-treasurer of Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen Division 101, was sentenced in the Circuit Court of Summers County, West Virginia to two years of probation for embezzling funds from the Hinton, W.Va. union.  He also was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $1,409.  McCallister had pleaded guilty in June after being charged in March.  The actions follow a probe by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.