On February 15, Tamika Bullock, former secretary-treasurer of International Brotherhood of Boilermakers Local 684, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to 14 months in prison for embezzling $24,600 from the Chesapeake-based union. Bullock, now 39, a resident of Portsmouth, had pleaded guilty last November after being indicted in June. Most of the stolen money had come from the union’s “sick and distressed” account. The actions follow a probe by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.
