Crime didn’t pay for Stephen Snyder. On January 22, Snyder, financial secretary of Local 5724 of the United Steelworkers of America, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to one count of embezzlement from his union. Prosecutors had alleged that during February 2005-August 2006 he diverted $78,893.47 from the Clarington, Ohio local’s strike benefit fund to his personal bank account. Snyder, a resident of the Wheeling, W.V. area, faces a maximum of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. The guilty plea follows an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards. (WOWK-TV, 1/28/09; Associated Press, 1/28/09).
