On May 24, Jeremy Leach, former secretary-treasurer of United Steelworkers Local 13-669, was charged in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma in a superseding indictment with one count of making false statements in records of the Pryor Creek, Okla.-based union. Three days later he pleaded guilty. On May 25, his brother, Jason Leach, former local president, was charged in a similar superseding indictment. He pleaded guilty the next day. The pair had been charged in April with thefts in respective amounts of $3,111 and $2,524. The actions follow an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.
