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Is SPFPA Region 3 VP Ryan Kelly a Nazi Party Sympathizer? Check out his SWASTIKA Twitter Post?
On a Twitter post by SPFPA Region 3 Vice President Ryan Kelly, and an Executive Board member of the International Union, Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America (SPFPA), Kelly clearly shows his discontent for the 2020 presidential election citing:
"The 2020 U.S. General Election is Illegitimate" followed with a SWASTIKA on the Twitter Logo dated Jan 8th.

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Apr 125 min read


Feds Investigate SPFPA Security Union Leader
Federal agents have raided the home of a Michigan-based labor boss amid allegations that he may have stolen money from union members who guard nuclear power facilities and a NASA space center, according to the Detroit News.

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Mar 275 min read


Why did SPFPA President David L. Hickey Close a Blind Eye to the O'Quinn's Conflict of Interest?
This was clearly a conflict of interest and SPFPA President David L. Hickey knew about this conflict of interest between SPFPA, and Patronus Systems since 2010 and did nothing about it. WHY -- That's over a decade of silence. --Members deserved protection.

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Mar 263 min read


Former SPFPA Local 300 President at NASA accused of stealing $23,000 from her SPFPA Local Union
Kemberly Fields, a former commissioned law officer and President of the Security, Police, Fire Union Local 300, was accused of stealing $23,000 from her union.

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Mar 243 min read


Former SPFPA Secretary-Treasurer Pleads Guilty to Theft of Union Treasury Funds
The former Secretary-Treasurer of Security Police Fire Professionals of America SPFPA Local 287 Milton Hilliard pleaded guilty today to theft from a labor organization in violation of his fiduciary responsibilities as a union officer.

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Mar 233 min read


Kentucky Security Officers SPFPA Local 112 Secretary Pleads Guilty & Sentenced for Theft
On September 26, Laura Cloyd, former financial secretary of Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America Local 112, pleaded guilty in the Campbell County, Kentucky Circuit Court to one count of felony theft and one count of misdemeanor theft from the Alexandria, Ky.-based union. A month later, on October 25, she was sentenced to three years of diversion and ordered to pay $1,669 in restitution. The actions follow an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office

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Mar 183 min read


Former SPFPA Local 576 Financial Secretary Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement
On July 31, Dianne Drawdy, former financial secretary of Security, Police and Fire Professionals Local 576 in Baxley, Georgia, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia to embezzling union funds in the amount of $17,900. She had been charged in April following an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.

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Mar 103 min read


SPFPA Financial Secretary-Treasurer of Local 238 Sent to Federal Prison for Embezzlement
ROCKFORD — A Whiteside County man has been sentenced to a federal prison term for embezzling from SPFPA Local 238, a labor organization.

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Mar 23 min read


SPFPA Financial Secretary-Treasurer Local 238 Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement from a Labor Union
BRENT TOPPERT, 42, was the elected Financial Secretary-Treasurer of Local 238 of the Security, Police, and Fire Professionals of America (SPFPA). The SPFPA represented members engaged in providing security at a nuclear plant in Cordova, Ill. Toppert admitted in a plea agreement that in 2018 he made an unauthorized withdrawal of $500 from a bank account owned by the SPFPA, and that the withdrawal was not for business purpose. Toppert admitted that he converted this money to

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Feb 103 min read
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