J.C. Stamps

For Sandra King, heading two unions meant double the opportunities to steal. It also meant double the risks of getting caught and punished. On October 19, King, former president of the Federation of Police & Security and the Alliance of Independent Workers, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland to five months in prison, five months of home detention and two years of supervised probation for embezzling funds from the unions, each based in Owings Mills (near Baltimore), Md. She also was ordered to make restitution in the amount of $57,328.01 She had pleaded guilty in July after being charged in June. The actions follow an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.

The Federation of Police & Security (FOPS) and the Alliance of Independent Workers (AIW) represent private security employees in Washington, D.C. and Bethesda, Md. Sandra King ran each union starting … Read More ➡

Sandra King had bills to pay. She resolved the problem in an all too common way: stealing. Two days ago, July 21, King, former president of the Federation of Police & Security and current president of the Alliance of Independent Workers, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to embezzling a combined sum of more than $57,000 from the Owings Mills (suburban Baltimore), Md.-based unions. As part of the plea deal, she will have to make full restitution. She had been charged in an information count this past June following an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.

If nothing else, Sandra King was a busy woman. During October 2014-September 2019, she headed the Federation of Police & Security, which represents private security guards in Washington, D.C. and Bethesda, Md. In addition, since 2014 she has served as president of the Alliance of … Read More ➡