On January 7, Carolyn Hall, former bookkeeper for Laborers International Union of North America Local 1197, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois to two years of probation and ordered to pay a $100 assessment for embezzling $26,491 in funds from the McLeansboro (Hamilton County), Ill.-based union. She had pleaded guilty last August after being charged that April. Hall previously had made full restitution. The actions follow an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.
