On November 14, Brenda Schaefer, former treasurer of National Rural Letter Carriers Association Local 39, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan to one year of probation for concealing her theft of funds from the Chesterfield Township (Macomb County), Mich.-based union. She also was ordered to pay $11,570 in restitution and a $25 special assessment. Schaefer had pleaded guilty in July after being charged in June. The actions follow an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.
