Former 'Erie Times-News' Union Treasurer Indicted

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By: The Associated Press

(AP)The former treasurer of the Erie Times-News employees' union has been indicted by a federal grand jury on a charge that embezzled nearly $8,800 from the guild.

Thirty-seven-year-old Antonio Jordan no longer works for the paper and his home telephone was disconnected Wednesday.

A federal grand jury on Tuesday charged him with using a union-issued credit card to make personal purchases worth $8,767 from March 2005 until February 2009.

Jordan was treasurer of the Erie Newspaper Guild, Communications Workers of America, Local 38187. The guild's president declined to comment on the charges, but says the union is trying to get insurance to pay for the loss.

Jordan faces up to five years in prison and would be barred from being a union official for 13 years if convicted.

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