Assane Faye was quick to lend a helping hand. It was a perfect opportunity to help himself. On November 25, Faye, founder and former president of the United Security and Police Officers of America (USPOA), was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey to 37 months in prison and three years of supervised release for embezzling at least $350,000 in funds from the Washington, D.C.-based union. He also was ordered to make full restitution. Faye had been convicted by a jury this May on two counts of embezzlement and seven counts of unemployment insurance fraud after being indicted over two years ago. The actions follow an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards and Office of Inspector General.
Union Corruption Update described this case several months ago. According to prosecutors, Faye, 61, a Senegalese immigrant residing …
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from National Legal & Policy Center http://nlpc.org/2016/12/07/38797/
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