On November 28, Alicia Rooney, former office secretary for United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 459, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the District of Montana to one count of embezzlement in the amount of $171,804. Of that sum, about two-thirds had been taken from the Missoula-based union general fund and the other third had been taken from a union-sponsored benefit plan. Rooney had been indicted in August following an investigation by the Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.
