On November 29, Douglas Morin, former treasurer of United Steelworkers Local 9520, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota to five years of probation, with a reduction to one year pending full payment of restitution, for falsifying records of the Fargo-based union to cover his theft. The court set restitution at $7,519, plus a $25 special assessment. Morin had pleaded guilty in August following a probe by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.
