A former New York State Trooper was convicted of pilfering from union members’ retirement accounts to live large, prosecutors announced Wednesday.
A former New York State Trooper was convicted of pilfering hundreds of thousands of dollars from union members — and using the funds on a trip to see the Dallas Cowboys, on a sailing outing and on a Lexus, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
Andrew Brown, a 55-year-old former financial advisor for LEEBA, was convicted alongside Wynder for the scheme the pair ran from 2012 through 2020 — netting them some $500,000 during just a five-year period, prosecutors said. Some members’ accounts were completely wiped out because of Wynder and Brown’s theft, prosecutors alleged.U.S. Attorney's Office Southern District
Steven Whittick, the one-time treasurer of LEEBA, took a plea deal and was sentenced to two-years-and-four months in prison for making off-the-books payments to himself and Wynder from 2015 through 2019.He was also convicted of tax evasion and conspiracy.
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