On July 25, Rocky DeFilippo, former delegate of Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 189, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to three months of home confinement and two years of probation, and was ordered to pay a $1,500 fine and a $300 special assessment, for acts of wire fraud against the Metuchen, N.J.-based union. DeFilippo had been convicted by a jury this March of one count of each of wire fraud, wire fraud conspiracy and making false statements. He had been charged in May 2017 following a joint investigation by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards and the Amtrak Police Department.
