On April 10, John Burgess, former president of Pacific Stainless Products Employee Association Local 304, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon to five years of supervised release and ordered to pay restitution totaling $10,621 and a $25 assessment for concealing or destroying records of the St. Helens-based union. He had pleaded guilty in December after being charged in September on one count of embezzling about $35,000 from the union and one count of concealing the thefts in financial records. The actions follow a probe by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.
