On September 3, Jeremy Bolte, former secretary-treasurer of Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees Lodge 800, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri to five years of probation for embezzling $12,500 from the Kansas City, Mo.-based union, which represents area workers for BNSF Railway. He also was ordered to pay full restitution and a special assessment of $1,000. Bolte had pleaded guilty in October 2014 to 10 counts of embezzlement upon being charged. The actions follow an investigation by the Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.
