Railroad union treasurer gets prison time for embezzlement

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.briefs28jul28,0,6006355.story

Metro Digest

July 28, 2007

A former treasurer for a railroad workers union will spend six months in prison and six months on home confinement after pleading guilty to embezzling $45,000 from the organization, a federal judge ruled yesterday in Baltimore.

From 1999 through 2004, Walter Fisher served as the secretary-treasurer of the United Transportation Union Local 1949. The union local had about 250 members during that time who were yard masters with CSX, Norfolk Southern, Amtrak, and Conrail in New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

An audit by the International Union of the Local 1949 books for 2003 revealed that Fisher embezzled about $15,000 in 2003, prosecutors wrote in court papers.

Fisher, who pleaded guilty on May 3, must pay approximately $45,000 in restitution to the union, Chief Judge Benson E. Legg on the U.S. District Court ordered yesterday.

[Bluzmann57]

1. This guy should be in jail

The sonofabitch was stealing from his Union brothers and sisters. He also makes Unions look bad. Screw him.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. Just another corrupt UTU official. He's one of many that's been busted.

The UTU needs a good housecleaning.