On July 23, Deborah Hand, former bookkeeper for International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers (SMART) Local 270, was charged in an information in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma with embezzling $44,808 in funds from the Tulsa union. The charge follows an investigation by the U.S. Secret Service and the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.
