On August 15, Carl DeRenzis, former treasurer of International Union of Painters and Allied Trades Local 1955, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania to three years of probation, with the first six months to be served in a halfway house, and 50 hours of community service for embezzling funds from the Philadelphia-based union. He also was ordered to pay $15,701 in restitution and a $100 special assessment, having already paid restitution in the sum of $37,580. DeRenzis had pleaded guilty last October to stealing $53,281. The actions follow an investigation by the Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.
