On December 10, Jerry Vincent, formerly president of International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 783, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky to six months of home confinement and three years of probation for embezzling $17,272.84 from the Louisville union. He also was ordered to pay $22,251 in restitution, a sum representing an unearned vacation advance as well as the stolen funds. Vincent had pleaded guilty last August to one count of embezzlement and 13 counts of falsifying union records following his July 2014 indictment. The actions follow an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.
