On July 23, Victoria Sharp, ex-office secretary for American Federation of Government Employees Local 903, was charged in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri with one count of bank fraud in the amount of $18,531 against the Columbia, Mo. union, which represents employees at the area VA Hospital. She then pleaded guilty. According to prosecutors, Sharp, now 34, a resident of Boonville, Mo., forged paychecks during October 2014-November 2016. During that period, in March 2016, someone had broken into a union file cabinet and discovered evidence that would link Ms. Sharp to the forgeries. The actions follow an investigation by the Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.
