On October 10, Thomas Miller, former financial secretary-treasurer of Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) Division 815, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois to two years of supervised probation, the first three months of which must be served in home confinement, for stealing funds from the Joliet-based union. He also was ordered to pay $21,070 in restitution, a $2,000 fine and a $100 special assessment. Miller had pleaded guilty on May 19 after being charged earlier that month with one count of embezzlement in the sum of $10,886. The actions follow an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.
