United States v. James Douglas Griffin

KELLEHER, District Judge:

On March 22, 1979, defendant James Douglas Griffin was indicted by a grand jury in Phoenix, Arizona on eighteen counts of embezzlement of union funds in violation of 29 U.S.C. § 501(c) and seventeen counts of embezzlement from an employee benefit plan in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 664.

This indictment was the culmination of a two and one-half year investigation by civil compliance officers of the U.S. Department of Labor. The investigation began on Sep tember 14, 1976 in response to a report by Donald Prosise, Business Agent for Roofer’s Union Local 135, Phoenix, Arizona…