On November 16, Pamela Nessen, former president of American Postal Workers Union Local 286, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana to six months of home confinement and one year of probation for embezzling $58,598 in funds from the Fort Wayne-based union. She had pleaded guilty in June after being indicted in November 2014. She also was ordered to pay $58,087 in restitution and a $100 special assessment. The actions follow a probe by the Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.
