On January 19, Heather Banhidy, former office secretary for United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 120, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio to two years of probation and 50 hours of community service for embezzling $13,906 from the Cleveland union. She also was ordered to pay a $100 special assessment on top of the full restitution which she already had made. Banhidy had pleaded guilty in October following her indictment in August. The actions follow an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.
