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Toledo Strip Clubs: Ex-Laborers leader must repay $14325
August 26, 2009 | | Leave a Comment
Thomas pleaded guilty May 11 to one count of labor union embezzlement for using union money throughout 2004 to pay for visits to strip clubs, where he spent nearly $18,000.
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According to court documents, Thomas charged drinks and entertainment at two strip clubs using credit cards either paid directly by the union or for which he submitted receipts for reimburse-ment. The incidents occurred at Scarlett’s Gentlemen’s Club in Toledo and Kahoot’s Gentlemen’s Club in Columbus.
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Thomas is the second union official to be sentenced for union embezzlement. Mr. Leonard, the union’s former recording secretary, was sentenced in January to one year of probation after pleading guilty Oct. 2 to using a credit card given to him by the construction union to pay $4,386 in expenses at the two strip clubs.
See the full article from “Toledo Blade”