Haskell Resident Pleads Guilty To Embezzlement From A Labor Organization

 MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Brenda G. Walters, age 60, of Haskell, Oklahoma entered a guilty plea to Embezzlement from a Labor Organization, in violation of Title 29, United States Code, Section 501(c), punishable by not more than 5 years’ imprisonment, a fine up to $10,000.00, or both. 

From in or about January 2012, and continuing until in or about July 2020, within the Eastern District of Oklahoma and elsewhere, the defendant, while serving as the Secretary-Treasurer of American Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO, Muskogee Local Area 7, a labor organization engaged in an industry affecting commerce, did embezzle, steal, abstract, and convert to her own use, money, funds, property, securities, and other assets of the labor organization in the approximate amount of $95,100.00. 

The charges arose from an investigation by the United States Department of Labor - Office of Labor-Management Standards. 

The Honorable Steven P. Shreder, U.S. Magistrate Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, in Muskogee, accepted the plea and ordered the completion of a presentence investigation report.   

Assistant United States Attorney Michael Cooper represented the United States.