Illinois Maintenance of Way Secretary Pleads Guilty; Sentenced

On January 15, Joshua Lewis, former secretary-treasurer of Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees Division Lodge 212, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois for making false statements in financial records of the Gillespie (Macoupin County), Ill.-based union.  He then was sentenced to one year of probation and ordered to pay a $25 social assessment.  Lewis had been indicted in November.  The actions follow an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.