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Ex-Carpenters Union agent gets probation for theft

A former business agent for Local 454 of the Carpenters Union was sentenced Tuesday to a year of home confinement and three years' of probation for embezzling more than $5,300 from union coffers, prosecutors said. The agent, Victor N. Rovani III, 34, said he stole the funds during 2009. Rovani also initially tried to stonewall a union investigation into the missing money, according to the office of U.S. Attorney Zane D. Memeger. Rovani said he used the cash to support an addiction to prescription painkillers, according to court filings. Now a Florida resident, he has since repaid the union. In April, he pleaded guilty to embezzlement charges. At the sentencing, U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick also ordered him to pay a $3,000 fine.

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A former business agent for Local 454 of the Carpenters Union was sentenced Tuesday to a year of home confinement and three years' of probation for embezzling more than $5,300 from union coffers, prosecutors said. The agent, Victor N. Rovani III, 34, said he stole the funds during 2009. Rovani also initially tried to stonewall a union investigation into the missing money, according to the office of U.S. Attorney Zane D. Memeger. Rovani said he used the cash to support an addiction to prescription painkillers, according to court filings. Now a Florida resident, he has since repaid the union. In April, he pleaded guilty to embezzlement charges. At the sentencing, U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick also ordered him to pay a $3,000 fine.

- John P. Martin