On December 10, Johnnie Nicholas, former financial secretary of United Mine Workers Local 4994, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio to seven days of incarceration and three years of supervised release for embezzling $37,900 from the New Philadelphia, Ohio-based union. He also was ordered to perform 200 hours of community service, and pay a $10,000 fine and a $100 special assessment. At sentencing, he paid residual restitution in the sum of $17,650. Nicholas had pleaded guilty in May following an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.
