On November 9, Roderick Bennett, former chief of staff for the Laborers International Union of North America, was charged in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in an information count with embezzling $141,335 from union headquarters in Washington, D.C. As his total compensation was in excess of $300,000 for each of 2014 and 2015, one has to wonder why he felt a need to steal. The charge follows an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards and Office of Inspector General.
