A Virginia Beach man will spend more than three years in prison for stealing over $1 million from International Longshoremen’s Association Local 970.
Robert Smith III, 49, was sentenced to 41 months in prison and three years of supervised release on Thursday. He will also have to pay the union $1,072,669.10 in restitution, according to a Department of Justice release.
Local 970 is a union with members who work at the Port of Virginia.
Smith pleaded guilty to embezzling Local 970 funds for over a decade. From March 2006 to April 2016, Smith deposited initiation and membership fees in an ILA bank account and spent the cash on personal items like drugs, gas, clothes, entertainment, credit card bills and food, according to the DOJ release.
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