Benefit fraud has become an enormous form of theft from labor unions. Add one more case to the list. On October 23, federal prosecutors announced a settlement with a Michigan-based company, Great Lakes Medical Laboratory, Inc., for a little over $1.2 million, a sum representing twice the company’s combined fraudulent billings of the Medicare program […]
United Mine Workers
Mine Workers Secretary in Ohio Sentenced for Embezzlement
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 […]