Charges: Leader embezzled $50K from postal union
The former president of a postal union branch in St. Cloud has been charged with embezzling $51,000 from the organization.
Steven James McDeid had been president of the National Association of Letter Carriers Branch 388.
According to court documents, the embezzling happened between February 2004 and October 2008.
McDeid was to appear in U.S. District Court in St. Paul on Wednesday.
McDeid's attorney did not immediately return a message left seeing comment, but he told the St. Cloud Times McDeid plans to enter a plea during Wednesday's hearing.
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