On August 19, William Winecke, former treasurer of the Soo Line Locomotive and Car Foreman’s Association, was charged in the Dakota County (suburban Minneapolis-St. Paul) District Court with two counts of theft by swindle during August 2011-April 2015 from the Apple Valley, Minn. union in the amount of $41,036. The charge follows an investigation by the Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.
