On June 8, Jeffrey Velfing and John Crosby, respectively, former chief steward and former assistant steward of National Postal Mail Handlers Union Local 307, each pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan to one count of embezzling funds in the amount of $6,758 from the Detroit-based union. The pair had been indicted in April. The charges and guilty pleas follow an investigation by the U.S. Postal Service’s Office of Inspector General and the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards and Office of Inspector General.
