A judge reduced the prison sentence of the former head of the Washington Teachers’ Union by two and a half years after prosecutors said she helped them put two of her colleagues behind bars.
U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon cut Barbara Bullock’s sentence from nine years to less than seven after prosecutors said she was the first defendant to cooperate and to provide information used to convict the other union officials.
Bullock, 68, was sentenced in 2004 for her role in the embezzlement scheme to bilk millions of dollars of dues from D.C. public school teachers.
Bullock helped put away two other union officials last year. In June, WTU manager Gwendolyn Hemphill received an 11-year sentence and former union treasurer James O. Baxter II was sentenced to 10 years.
A third person, Hemphill’s son-in-law, Michael W. Martin, was sentenced to six months in October for his role in the conspiracy to defraud the union over a five-year period.
Information from the Associated Press was used in this story.
