The legacy of Dana Cope, ex-executive director of the State Employees Association of North Carolina, still lingers but at least it is fading further into memory. For rank and file, that’s a good thing. On December 18, the Raleigh-based union announced that Robert Broome, a veteran lobbyist, would take over the 55,000-member state employees organization, an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), effective January 1. Broome had taken over from Mitch Leonard, who had been named interim director in February 2015 to succeed Cope, the longtime leader who had diverted more than $500,000 from the association to his own personal use. Cope would plead guilty in Superior State Court that November, seven months after the release of an SEIU-directed audit. He immediately was sentenced to as many as 82 months in prison.
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