On February 6, Glenn Robert Smith, former comptroller for the Michigan Regional Council of Carpenters and Millwrights (MRCC), was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan to 15 months in prison and two years of supervised release for embezzling funds from the Detroit-based labor organization. He also was ordered to pay restitution in the sum of $534,097. Smith had pleaded guilty last October after being charged with embezzling $499,097 in MRCC funds in July 2015. The actions follow a joint investigation by the IRS and the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards and Office of Inspector General.
