Posts tagged Forgery
SEIU SUES OREGON EMPLOYEE FOR EXPOSING FORGERY
July 18, 2022 // Staci Trees, an employee of Oregon Department of Transportation, resigned her union membership in December 2020, only to learn that SEIU intended to keep deducting regular dues from paychecks, claiming she had signed a membership agreement authorizing it to do so. When she asked to see the document, however, it was so obviously a forgery that even SEIU couldn’t defend its authenticity. Rebekah Millard, Gov. Kate Brown,
Ex-top MS Coast labor union official accused of embezzlement in 29-count indictment
July 8, 2022 // The former secretary and treasurer of a Mississippi Coast labor union pleaded not guilty Tuesday to federal charges in a 29-count indictment accusing her of forging checks or other securities to embezzle over $33,000. Lisa Michelle Bennett, 50, had an arraignment in federal court in Gulfport on Tuesday. U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert P. Myers appointed a federal public defender to represent Bennett before she pleaded not guilty to one count of embezzlement and 28 counts of uttering forgery. Assistant U.S. Attorney John Meynardie
Opinion: States should protect caregivers’ Medicaid funds from union skims
June 27, 2022 // Yet, while a number of states including Michigan have taken action to prohibit the dues skim, a May rule by the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reversed a Trump administration effort to stop the skim nationally. A separate 9th Circuit decision last week also continues to allow unions to trap home care providers into paying them. Robert and Patricia Haynes, cerebral palsy, Gov. Rick Snyder, Harris v. Quinn, Cindy Ochoa, most pro-union president ever,
Union Forgeries Reveal Systemic Corruption Requiring Court Review
February 17, 2022 // Last week, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in three cases dealing with public employee labor unions accused of forging employee signatures on dues-authorization cards so they can take their money without permission and spend it on politics.
Former AFT Local Treasurer Charged With Union Embezzlement & Forgery
February 12, 2022 // According to the arrest warrant affidavit, in December, Mallach would deposit union funds in the form of check(s), which were generally dues money collected by the American School for the Deaf and paid to the union from members’ paychecks. In the course of depositing these checks, Mallach, as evidenced by the deposit slips, would receive cash back from the teller so that the full amount of the checks were not deposited into the union’s account. Mallach also made cash withdrawals from the checking account through a teller.