On August 31, Monique Tyson, former secretary for International Union of Painters and Allied Trades District Council 3, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri to one year of probation for falsifying records of the Raytown, Mo.-based union to conceal thefts of an amount between $7,500 and $20,864. She previously had paid restitution in the amount of $7,500. Tyson had pleaded guilty in March. The actions follow an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.
