{"id":144495,"date":"2026-01-30T20:27:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T20:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/144495\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T20:27:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T20:27:44","slug":"ex-texas-union-boss-gets-prison-for-embezzlement-of-union-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/144495\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Texas union boss gets prison for embezzlement of union money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/WEB-jail-prison-bars_1444244181872_317653_ver1.0_640_360.jpg\" alt=\"Prison bars.\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas &#8211; An ex-Texas union boss has been sentenced to months in prison for stealing money from the guild he led.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"fox26houston.com\/news\/robert-cirilo-corpus-christi-texas-union-embezzlement\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">According to federal prosecutors, 42-year-old Robert Cirilo, former president of the United Steelworkers Local 13-1647 in Corpus Christi, pleaded guilty to charges of wire fraud and embezzlement from a labor organization in April.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Prosecutors said that Cirilo used union debit cards to make about 430 unauthorized purchases over the course of nearly three years. He then lied to union members about the transactions.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">As part of his plea, prosecutors said, Cirilo admitted the theft totaled more than $280,000.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"fox26houston.com\/news\/robert-cirilo-corpus-christi-texas-union-embezzlement\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">This week, Cirilo was sentenced to 21 months in prison to be followed by three years of probation, according to prosecutors. He was also ordered to pay restitution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this story came from the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office, Southern District of Texas.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas &#8211; An ex-Texas union boss has been sentenced to months in prison for stealing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,1046,223,216,393],"class_list":["post-144495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-news","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}