On May 17, Scott and Nancy Alexander, respectively, ex-president and secretary-treasurer of International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 50, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois to one count each of embezzlement and wire fraud from the Belleville, Ill. union. During January 2012-June 2016, alleged prosecutors, the husband-wife couple made about $6,500 in unauthorized purchases with a union credit card, manipulated the payroll, collected vacation pay while at work and received excessive auto allowance reimbursements. After receiving tips from within the union about such activity, the Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards conducted a probe. That in turn led to indictments last June. Teamsters General President James P. Hoffa already had imposed a trusteeship on the local in July 2016.
