On May 14, Maria Nunez, former office secretary for International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Local Lodge 1484, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California to two years of probation for making false statements in the financial records of the Wilmington, Calif. (Los Angeles Harbor area) union. She also was ordered to pay $4,868.50 in restitution and a $25 assessment. Nunez had pleaded guilty in January following a probe by the Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.