On March 30, Mark Douglas, former president of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1101, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana to two years of probation for embezzling funds from the Arabi (near New Orleans) union. He also was ordered to pay restitution to the union in the sum […]
Mark Douglas
UFCW President in Louisiana Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement
On September 17, Mark Douglas, president of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1101, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana to embezzling funds from the Arabi (near New Orleans) union. According to court records, during November 2011-January 2015 Douglas, now 72, a resident of New Orleans, had filed fraudulent […]
New Orleans-Area UFCW President Charged with Theft
Mark Douglas billed his union for reimbursements for nonworking hours. Unfortunately for the union, that amounted to theft. Yesterday, April 9, Douglas, president of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1101, was charged in an information count in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana with embezzling $7,078.35 in funds from the Arabi […]