On July 1, Elmer Ray Booker, former financial secretary of International Longshoremen’s Association Local 1530, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas to five years of probation for embezzling $42,018 in funds from the Houston union. He also was ordered to serve 100 hours of community service and pay $39,517 in restitution plus a $100 special assessment. Booker had pleaded guilty this February after being indicted in March 2015. The actions follow a probe by the Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.
