Teachers Union Boss Sentenced- Art, Jewelry, Furs & Gun Siezed From Home

[RUexperienced]

***BACKGROUND***

WASHINGTON (AP) - The former president of the Washington Teachers' Union was sentenced Friday to more than nine years in prison for a scam in which she embezzled millions of dollars in union dues.

The judge sentenced Barbara A. Bullock, 65, on charges of conspiracy and mail fraud in a case that prosecutors described as "nothing short of brazen greed."

U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon also ordered Bullock upon her release to spend three years in a halfway house and to perform 3,000 hours of community service. She also must repay $4.6 million to the union and turn over luxury items - including artwork, fur coats, and electronics - purchased with the stolen union funds....

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http://www.nbc4.com/news/1853346/detail.html

Items Seized From Barbara Bullock's Home


LISTS OF ITEMS
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288 piece Tiffany Silverware

William Tolliver artwork, semi-nude female

Mink hat, no identifying marks
Baccarat vase with spiral steps on side

Two bronze candelabras

Three fur coats: 1) Rosendorf Evans, 2) Sitka, 3) Miller's furs

Royal crown derby English bone china set

Four Fendi handbags

Two Judith Lieber handbags; two Kielstein Cord handbags

One Gucci, two Dolce Gabena, one Bally, one Ferragamo, one Kielstein Cord handbag(s)

Two Chanel handbags
Three Fendi, one Louis Vuitton, one Dolce, two Kielstein handbags
One Kleinberg & Sherrill, one Escala, one Kate Spade, one Bally handbag

St. John's collection clothing

Photographs including paintings, sculptures, six place settings
Four Yves Delorme bath towels and three wash cloths

Copy of lease from 1974 for 1221 Massachusetts #1021

Myong Lim clothing

9mm white baroque pearl necklace and 8 1/2 mm gray baroque necklace, both from tiny jewel box

Labradorite necklace

Seven pair Salvatore Ferragamo and two pair Bruno Magli shoes

Silver and gold Tiffany ring
Chanel earrings

One St. John, one Nordstrom, two Amalfi, two Via Spiga, two Bruno Magli, two Salvatore Ferragamo pairs of shoes

Ramee Art - African art - watercolor of two ladies
Eight English plates with green border, flower in the middle


Two Donald Pilner, one Stuart Weitzman, one Bruno Magli, seven Salvatore Ferragamo pairs of shoes

Three pairs of shoes: one Sperry, one Bruno Magli, one Stuart Weitzman

Receipt from Nordstrom; price tag from Neiman Marcus

One double Barrel shotgun
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Good to see we have such unselfish people 'laboring for the children.'

[radwriter0555]

1. I smell a set-up.

This stinks.

[RUexperienced]

2. What do you mean by 'set up'?

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

9. Sounds like the union got ripped off by a crook

Glad this is taken care of. Have their already been elections for her replacement?

[veganwitch]

3. this aint no set up

there have been issues for years with this woman. but sadly, now williams wants to but himself in charge of public education.

[StClone]

4. Reminds me of the "Nature Conservancy" troubles

Why are groups that oppose the regimes goals suddenly under close scrutiny. You think they are more corrupt than any other group currently backed by BushCo?

[SoCalDem]

5. Look for more of these busts to occur.. the snowball effect

The investigation was probably underway for a while, and was deserved, but for "maximum" impact, there are probably a lot of these investigations that will suddenly become public..

Perception is reality..

These will be front page stories in the highly republican areas.. It will serve to re-inforce what their "masters" have been telling them all along.. "YOUR union dues are being stolen by union bosses"..therefore ALL unions are bad, and you should be happy to work for peanuts, with no benefits._{because you have a better class of people stealing from you...... "republican bidnessmen"}

[LeahMira]

10. The story that doesn't get reported...

These will be front page stories in the highly republican areas.. It will serve to re-inforce what their "masters" have been telling them all along.. "YOUR union dues are being stolen by union bosses"..therefore ALL unions are bad, and you should be happy to work for peanuts, with no benefits.

Yep. The story that doesn't get reported is the story of all the "union bosses" that have worked their tails off to get humane working conditions for the union members over these many years and never got a minute of wide recognition. Their names are forgotten, even sometimes by the very people who benefitted from their hard work and dedication.

[spanone]

6. She should be in the bush* cabinet

[SoCalDem]

7. Maybe she could give Laura some pointers.. good taste in purses

:)

[spotbird]

8. Maybe we should pass her resume along.

She really is a perfect fit.

[RUexperienced]

11. I doubt she was ever a Bush supporter...

[Muddleoftheroad]

12. It was only yesterday

That I was being abused because I don't like teachers unions. I was told that they are never corrupt...

[Redleg]

13. Unions are not corrupt but their leaders can be.

Of course that's no different from any other organization. The sad thing is that rethugs will use this failure of a union leader to demonstrate how "evil" unions are.

[Muddleoftheroad]

15. Any group that gets large like unions can be corrupt

And often is. It becomes more focused on its own power, its own survival and not its original goals.

[Redleg]

16. Organizations cannot be corrupt- they are not real entities.

The leaders in the organization can be corrupt- regardless of the size of the organization.

[Muddleoftheroad]

17. Sure, whatever

So you can't have institutional corruption?

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

14. so you don't like corporations because of Ken Lay?

I remember saying that unions are some of the least corrupt institutions in America. And look here - a story that gets so much attention because it's so rare. If this was another story about CEOs, we'd hardly notice since there are so many.

In any case, glad to hear that a crook ripping off the union was caught.

"I was told that they are never corrupt..."

Really? Link?