On December 5, Anthony Edmunds, former president of United Auto Workers Local 2419, was indicted in U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois on one count of embezzling $19,482 in funds from the Danville-based union. This is a union with recurring leadership problems. This past September, another former Local 2419 president, Bob Buford, was sentenced to 21 months in prison for embezzling nearly $130,000 in funds following his guilty plea in November 2016. The actions follow an investigation by the Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.