On June 3, Nereida Norris, former clerk craft director of American Postal Workers Union Local 98, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas to nine months in prison and two years of supervised release for making a false statement in financial records of the Fort Worth-based union to conceal her theft of funds. She also was ordered to pay $25,956 in restitution, a $5,000 fine and a $100 special assessment. Norris had pleaded guilty in February after being charged in January. The actions follow an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.
