AMERICAN POSTAL WORKER’S UNION (APWU) OFFICER CHARGED
WITH EMBEZZLEMENT OF UNION FUNDS AND WIRE FRAUD
(HOUSTON) – The former Southern Region Coordinator of the American Postal Worker’s Union (APWU) has been charged with embezzlement of union funds and wire fraud, United States Attorney José Angel Moreno announced today. The two count indictment was returned on Wednesday, March 17, 2010.
Frankie L. Sanders, 46, of Houston, Texas, who held various offices with the APWU between 1992 and 2006 including the office of Southern Region Coordinator, surrendered to federal authorities this morning and is expected to make his initial appearance before a U. S. Magistrate Judge this afternoon.
According to the indictment, the American Postal Worker’s Union (APWU) is a national labor organization based in Washington, D.C. serving 262,000 mail service employees with five regional offices. The office for the Southern Region is located in Houston, Texas. Sanders served as the APWU Southern Region Coordinator from Feb. 4, 2004 through October 2006 and supervised a trusteeship of APWU Local 83 in New Orleans from December 2005 to March 2006.
The indictment alleges that Sanders embezzled more than $10,000 in union funds between July 2003 and through May 2006 by creating and submitting more than 20 false hotel receipts to the APWU national headquarters for reimbursement. The allegedly false reimbursement claims submitted by Sanders were paid by the APWU via wire transfer of funds and totaled approximately $13,145.
Sanders is currently employed as a postal clerk in downtown Houston.
Bashing the Union is not the answer because without the Union there would be no decent wages or benefits, the employees would be just like the Wal-mart and McDonald employees protesting to get a lousy 15.00 an hour. But what they can do is be a member in good standing AND VOTE THEIR [vulgar language edited out] out and put people in those positions that you feel represent you.
Jaynel – this article, furnished by the Dept. of Justice, is not bashing the unions…it’s stating a fact. PEN
STACY YOU ARE ON POINT.
LETS NOT FORGET,THEY ARE SO WILLING TO SPREAD THE NEWS OF PAID MEMBER ACTIVE CASES AS GOSSIP. THIS IS THE RESPECT GIVEN TO THE OATH OF OFFICE THEY HOLD AND TO THERE PAID MEMBERS.
Brenda – thank you for your participation. Please repost your comments without using all capital letters. Thanks for understanding. PEN
TRY LOOKING AT THE UNION IN FAYETTEVILLE, NC. THERE IS MUCH WORK TO BE DONE THERE. THEY HAVE COST MANY EMPLOYEES TO BE LET GO, THAT SHOULD HAVE BECOME CAREER. SHAME ON THEM.
I am so very happy that APWU is finally getting their just desserts. This organization has done nothing but rip employees off, have expensive conventions and meetings at the expense of the postal employee while all the while assisting the opposition (that’s right the postal management) in excessing and harrassing and terminating employees that the UNION is supposed to protect.