I Was Auditing Our Union Fund In My Office When My Boss Laughed It Off So I Pulled The Bank Slips And Froze

My name is Luz Cisneros.

I am a pension fund auditor.

Keith Booker thought he could hide a million dollars in a spreadsheet, but he could not hide the bank slips.

I serve as the senior pension fund auditor for the regional joint pension and welfare trust fund of Local Three-Sixteen of the Western Industrial Trades Brotherhood.

Local Three-Sixteen of the Western Industrial Trades Brotherhood is a regional industrial trades labor union representing approximately three thousand and forty industrial trades members across the southwestern industrial corridor.

The three thousand and forty industrial trades members of Local Three-Sixteen work across approximately one hundred and forty-seven employer contracts in the regional industrial trades sector covering the regional petrochemical refining industry, the regional aerospace component manufacturing industry, the regional heavy-equipment fabrication industry, and the regional commercial construction industry.

Local Three-Sixteen’s regional joint pension and welfare trust fund holds approximately one hundred and sixty-two million United States dollars in retirement-funded assets against the three thousand and forty members’ contractual contribution rates against the collective bargaining agreements with the one hundred and forty-seven employer contracts.

Local Three-Sixteen’s regional joint pension and welfare trust fund is governed under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of nineteen seventy-four against the trust fund’s federally registered fiduciary trustees.

Local Three-Sixteen’s regional union boss is a man named Keith Booker.

Keith Booker has served as the regional union boss of Local Three-Sixteen for the past twenty-two years.

Keith Booker is responsible for the union’s day-to-day operational administration, the collective bargaining negotiations with the one hundred and forty-seven employer contracts, the political action committee endorsement decisions on the regional and state political races, and the membership communication on the quarterly membership meeting cycle.

Keith Booker is a federally registered fiduciary trustee on the regional joint pension and welfare trust fund’s federal fiduciary trustee panel.

I have served as the senior pension fund auditor for Local Three-Sixteen’s regional joint pension and welfare trust fund for the past eight years.

I report to the regional joint pension and welfare trust fund’s federal fiduciary trustee panel through a senior auditor’s reporting chain that is independent of Local Three-Sixteen’s regional union boss’s operational reporting chain.

I have served as a pension fund auditor for the past fifteen years across three regional industrial trades labor unions in the southwestern industrial corridor.

I sat at the senior pension fund auditor’s office on the third floor of Local Three-Sixteen’s main union hall building in the regional industrial corridor’s largest metropolitan area on the second Tuesday morning of the fourth fiscal quarter of the year.

I was reviewing the regional joint pension and welfare trust fund’s third-fiscal-quarter financial summary against the standard quarterly audit cycle.

The third-fiscal-quarter financial summary carried a line-item entry labeled “national headquarters administrative transfer” against the regional joint pension and welfare trust fund’s general administrative-cost ledger.

The “national headquarters administrative transfer” line item carried a third-fiscal-quarter total of approximately two hundred and forty-eight thousand seven hundred United States dollars against the regional joint pension and welfare trust fund’s general administrative-cost ledger.

The “national headquarters administrative transfer” line item’s required percentage against the regional joint pension and welfare trust fund’s third-fiscal-quarter total assets-under-management against the standard national headquarters administrative cost-sharing rate at six-tenths of one percent of the regional joint pension and welfare trust fund’s quarterly assets-under-management corresponded to approximately two hundred and forty-four thousand seven hundred United States dollars against the third-fiscal-quarter total.

The “national headquarters administrative transfer” line item’s reported amount of approximately two hundred and forty-eight thousand seven hundred United States dollars was approximately four thousand United States dollars higher than the required percentage against the standard administrative cost-sharing rate.

I reviewed the second-fiscal-quarter financial summary’s “national headquarters administrative transfer” line item.

The second-fiscal-quarter financial summary’s “national headquarters administrative transfer” line item was approximately four thousand United States dollars higher than the required percentage against the standard administrative cost-sharing rate against the second-fiscal-quarter assets-under-management.

I reviewed the first-fiscal-quarter financial summary’s “national headquarters administrative transfer” line item.

The first-fiscal-quarter financial summary’s “national headquarters administrative transfer” line item was approximately four thousand United States dollars higher than the required percentage against the standard administrative cost-sharing rate against the first-fiscal-quarter assets-under-management.

I reviewed the financial summaries against the preceding twelve fiscal quarters.

The “national headquarters administrative transfer” line item carried an approximately four-thousand-dollar overage against the required percentage against the standard administrative cost-sharing rate across each of the preceding twelve fiscal quarters.

The approximately four-thousand-dollar overage across the preceding twelve fiscal quarters corresponded to a cumulative overage of approximately forty-eight thousand United States dollars across the preceding three years against the regional joint pension and welfare trust fund’s general administrative-cost ledger.

I navigated from the third-fiscal-quarter financial summary to the trust fund’s accounts-payable disbursement system on the senior pension fund auditor’s read-only fiduciary credential.

The accounts-payable disbursement system carried the third-fiscal-quarter “national headquarters administrative transfer” line item’s disbursement record as a single quarterly disbursement of approximately two hundred and forty-eight thousand seven hundred United States dollars by automated wire transfer against the standard quarterly administrative cost-sharing remittance cycle.

The accounts-payable disbursement system listed the automated wire transfer’s recipient account routing number against the Western Industrial Trades Brotherhood’s national headquarters’ general administrative-cost remittance account.

The accounts-payable disbursement system did not list the automated wire transfer’s recipient deposit account number.

The accounts-payable disbursement system listed only the recipient account routing number against the Western Industrial Trades Brotherhood’s national headquarters’ general administrative-cost remittance account.

I walked downstairs to the parking lot on the union hall building’s south side at eleven oh five Tuesday morning.

I drove to the local bank branch of the regional commercial bank that held Local Three-Sixteen’s regional joint pension and welfare trust fund’s general operating account at the intersection of the regional industrial corridor’s southwestern arterial roadway and the regional industrial corridor’s central transit-loop access road approximately seven miles from the union hall building.

I requested the physical deposit slips against the trust fund’s general operating account’s quarterly automated wire transfers across the preceding twelve fiscal quarters under the senior pension fund auditor’s federally registered ERISA Section one zero-five-eight request authority.

The local bank branch’s senior branch manager pulled the physical deposit slips from the local bank branch’s archived wire-transfer record vault on the local bank branch’s first floor back-office record-storage cabinet.

The physical deposit slips carried the recipient account routing number and the recipient deposit account number on each of the twelve quarterly automated wire transfers across the preceding twelve fiscal quarters.

The recipient account routing number on each of the twelve physical deposit slips matched the routing number for the Western Industrial Trades Brotherhood’s national headquarters’ general administrative-cost remittance account.

The recipient deposit account number on each of the twelve physical deposit slips did not match the deposit account number for the Western Industrial Trades Brotherhood’s national headquarters’ general administrative-cost remittance account.

A spreadsheet can say whatever the person typing wants it to say.

A bank routing number tells you exactly where the money lives.

A bank deposit account number tells you exactly whose hands hold it.

I drove from the local bank branch to the senior pension fund auditor’s office on the third floor of Local Three-Sixteen’s main union hall building at twelve forty-seven Tuesday afternoon.

I locked the senior pension fund auditor’s office from the inside.

I placed the twelve physical deposit slips from the local bank branch’s archived wire-transfer record vault face down on the senior pension fund auditor’s desk.

I opened the trust fund’s accounts-payable disbursement system on the senior pension fund auditor’s read-only fiduciary credential on the desktop terminal’s left monitor.

I navigated to the Western Industrial Trades Brotherhood’s national headquarters’ federally registered general administrative-cost remittance account number against the trust fund’s standard accounts-payable disbursement system’s registered recipient account directory.

The Western Industrial Trades Brotherhood’s national headquarters’ federally registered general administrative-cost remittance account number ended in the four-digit suffix four-two-eight-one on the federally registered account-identifier directory.

The twelve physical deposit slips from the local bank branch’s archived wire-transfer record vault carried a recipient deposit account number that ended in the four-digit suffix nine-six-three-seven across each of the twelve quarterly automated wire transfers across the preceding twelve fiscal quarters.

The four-digit suffix nine-six-three-seven did not match the four-digit suffix four-two-eight-one against the Western Industrial Trades Brotherhood’s national headquarters’ federally registered general administrative-cost remittance account number.

I opened a new browser tab on the desktop terminal’s right monitor.

I navigated to the state attorney general’s office’s federally maintained state political action committee registry against the state political donation database.

I queried the state political action committee registry on the four-digit recipient deposit account number suffix nine-six-three-seven against the state political action committee registry’s federal recipient bank account record.

The state political action committee registry returned a single match against the federal recipient bank account suffix nine-six-three-seven.

The single match was a state political action committee called the Working Families First Political Action Committee.

The Working Families First Political Action Committee carried a state political action committee federal registration date of approximately three years and seven months prior against the state attorney general’s office’s federally maintained state political action committee registry.

The Working Families First Political Action Committee carried a state political action committee federal registration filing on the federally maintained Federal Election Commission Form Three-X-X political committee report against the federal political action committee statement-of-organization filing.

The Working Families First Political Action Committee’s federal political action committee statement-of-organization filing’s authorized treasurer signature was a man named Keith Booker against the federal political action committee statement-of-organization filing.

The Working Families First Political Action Committee’s federal political action committee statement-of-organization filing’s authorized assistant treasurer signature was a man named Greg Mensching against the federal political action committee statement-of-organization filing.

Greg Mensching was Keith Booker’s lead political and legal counsel at Local Three-Sixteen’s main union hall.

I navigated to the Working Families First Political Action Committee’s Federal Election Commission Form Three-X-X quarterly political committee receipts-and-disbursements report on the federally maintained Federal Election Commission’s political committee report disclosure portal.

The Working Families First Political Action Committee’s quarterly political committee receipts-and-disbursements report carried a quarterly receipts entry of approximately two hundred and forty-eight thousand seven hundred United States dollars against the third fiscal quarter and approximately two hundred and forty-four thousand United States dollars against each of the preceding eleven fiscal quarters.

The Working Families First Political Action Committee’s quarterly political committee receipts-and-disbursements report listed each of the twelve quarterly receipts entries as a transfer from an unnamed “regional pension and welfare trust administrative cost-sharing remittance” against the standard quarterly receipts identifier line.

The Working Families First Political Action Committee’s quarterly political committee receipts-and-disbursements report carried approximately three million dollars in total quarterly political committee disbursements against the preceding twelve fiscal quarters against the regional and state political action committee endorsement disbursement cycle on the regional state senate race, the regional county supervisor races, the regional municipal council races, and the regional school board races.

I closed the browser tab on the desktop terminal’s right monitor.

I opened the Western Industrial Trades Brotherhood’s national headquarters’ federally registered general administrative-cost remittance accounting record on the senior pension fund auditor’s read-only fiduciary credential against the national headquarters’ federal accounting record portal.

The Western Industrial Trades Brotherhood’s national headquarters’ federally registered general administrative-cost remittance accounting record carried a third-fiscal-quarter remittance entry from Local Three-Sixteen of zero United States dollars.

The Western Industrial Trades Brotherhood’s national headquarters’ federally registered general administrative-cost remittance accounting record carried a remittance entry from Local Three-Sixteen of zero United States dollars across each of the preceding twelve fiscal quarters.

The Western Industrial Trades Brotherhood’s national headquarters’ federally registered general administrative-cost remittance accounting record carried a delinquency notice on Local Three-Sixteen’s required quarterly administrative cost-sharing remittance at six-tenths of one percent of the regional joint pension and welfare trust fund’s quarterly assets-under-management across each of the preceding twelve fiscal quarters.

The Western Industrial Trades Brotherhood’s national headquarters’ federally registered general administrative-cost remittance accounting record listed Local Three-Sixteen’s cumulative delinquency at approximately three million one hundred and forty-six thousand United States dollars across the preceding twelve fiscal quarters.

The national headquarters’ federally registered delinquency record corresponded approximately to the Working Families First Political Action Committee’s twelve-quarter receipts entries of approximately three million one hundred and forty-six thousand United States dollars.

The two corresponding figures were the same money.

The two corresponding figures were not the same recipient.

The recipient of the regional joint pension and welfare trust fund’s quarterly remittances at six-tenths of one percent of the regional joint pension and welfare trust fund’s quarterly assets-under-management was the Working Families First Political Action Committee.

The recipient of the regional joint pension and welfare trust fund’s quarterly remittances at six-tenths of one percent of the regional joint pension and welfare trust fund’s quarterly assets-under-management was not the Western Industrial Trades Brotherhood’s national headquarters’ federally registered general administrative-cost remittance account.

I picked up the senior pension fund auditor’s office’s desk telephone at one fifty-three Tuesday afternoon.

I dialed the United States Department of Labor’s Office of Labor-Management Standards’ twenty-four-hour federal labor-management compliance fiduciary investigations response line in Washington, District of Columbia.

I waited.

A federal investigator from the Office of Labor-Management Standards’ fiduciary compliance investigations division answered the federal labor-management compliance fiduciary investigations response line at one fifty-seven Tuesday afternoon.

I gave the federal investigator the regional joint pension and welfare trust fund’s third-fiscal-quarter financial summary, the twelve physical deposit slips’ recipient deposit account suffix nine-six-three-seven, the Working Families First Political Action Committee’s federal political action committee statement-of-organization filing, Keith Booker’s authorized treasurer signature against the political action committee statement-of-organization filing, the twelve quarterly receipts entries on the Working Families First Political Action Committee’s Federal Election Commission Form Three-X-X quarterly political committee receipts-and-disbursements report, and the Western Industrial Trades Brotherhood’s national headquarters’ federally registered general administrative-cost remittance accounting record’s twelve-quarter delinquency notice.

The federal investigator from the Office of Labor-Management Standards’ fiduciary compliance investigations division told me the Office of Labor-Management Standards’ fiduciary compliance investigations division would dispatch a federal field investigations team to Local Three-Sixteen’s main union hall building against the regional joint pension and welfare trust fund’s federal fiduciary trustee panel.

The federal field investigations team’s estimated arrival time at Local Three-Sixteen’s main union hall was Thursday evening at the quarterly membership financial vote at eighteen hundred hours.

The quarterly membership financial vote was Thursday evening at eighteen hundred hours.

I copied each of the twelve physical deposit slips on the senior pension fund auditor’s office’s small bench-top scanner.

I placed each printed copy of each of the twelve physical deposit slips in an individual eight-and-a-half-by-eleven manila document envelope.

I placed each individual eight-and-a-half-by-eleven manila document envelope in the senior pension fund auditor’s office’s locked filing cabinet’s middle drawer.

I closed the locked filing cabinet’s middle drawer.

I removed the small brass key from the lock face of the locked filing cabinet’s middle drawer.

I placed the small brass key in the small zippered chest pocket of my work jacket.

I walked from the senior pension fund auditor’s office on the third floor of Local Three-Sixteen’s main union hall building down the central staircase to the main union hall’s primary entrance at five forty-seven Thursday evening.

I carried the senior pension fund auditor’s leather briefcase against my right shoulder with the twelve printed copies of the twelve physical deposit slips, the Working Families First Political Action Committee’s federal political action committee statement-of-organization filing, the Federal Election Commission Form Three-X-X quarterly political committee receipts-and-disbursements report, and the Western Industrial Trades Brotherhood’s national headquarters’ federally registered general administrative-cost remittance accounting record’s twelve-quarter delinquency notice in twelve individual eight-and-a-half-by-eleven manila document envelopes.

I carried the printed United States Code of Federal Regulations Title twenty-nine Section four-fifty-seven point seven-three regulation against the federally registered ERISA Section ten-five-eight senior pension fund auditor’s affirmative right of access to the membership floor during a federally registered ERISA-regulated quarterly membership financial vote in the senior pension fund auditor’s leather briefcase’s inside left pocket.

I carried the senior pension fund auditor’s federally registered ERISA-fiduciary identification badge on the senior pension fund auditor’s lanyard around my neck.

I carried the senior pension fund auditor’s small portable digital voice recorder in the senior pension fund auditor’s leather briefcase’s inside right pocket against the senior pension fund auditor’s standard quarterly membership financial vote audit-record protocol.

Two large men in dark-blue Local Three-Sixteen sergeants-at-arms-issue dark-blue blazers stood at the main union hall’s primary entrance’s interior side at five forty-eight Thursday evening.

The two large men were the Local Three-Sixteen sergeants-at-arms on the quarterly membership financial vote duty rotation.

The Local Three-Sixteen sergeants-at-arms stepped across the main union hall’s primary entrance’s interior side at the senior pension fund auditor’s approach.

The lead sergeant-at-arms told me Keith Booker had issued a written instruction that I was an outside contractor without voting rights and that I was barred from the main union hall floor during the quarterly membership financial vote against Local Three-Sixteen’s internal Article Six bylaw section on the regional union boss’s discretionary access-authority on the membership floor.

The lead sergeant-at-arms told me to leave the main union hall building.

I removed the printed United States Code of Federal Regulations Title twenty-nine Section four-fifty-seven point seven-three regulation from the senior pension fund auditor’s leather briefcase’s inside left pocket.

I read the printed United States Code of Federal Regulations Title twenty-nine Section four-fifty-seven point seven-three regulation out loud at the main union hall’s primary entrance’s interior side against the federally registered ERISA Section ten-five-eight senior pension fund auditor’s affirmative right of access to the membership floor during a federally registered ERISA-regulated quarterly membership financial vote.

I read the federal regulation’s specific language on the federal preemption of internal union bylaw access restrictions against a federally registered ERISA-fiduciary senior pension fund auditor’s affirmative right of access during a federally registered ERISA-regulated quarterly membership financial vote.

The lead sergeant-at-arms looked at the second sergeant-at-arms.

The second sergeant-at-arms looked at the printed federal regulation.

The lead sergeant-at-arms looked at my senior pension fund auditor’s federally registered ERISA-fiduciary identification badge on the senior pension fund auditor’s lanyard.

The lead sergeant-at-arms stepped aside from the main union hall’s primary entrance’s interior side.

The second sergeant-at-arms stepped aside from the main union hall’s primary entrance’s interior side.

I walked across the main union hall’s primary entrance’s interior side into the main union hall’s central membership floor at five fifty-three Thursday evening.

The main union hall’s central membership floor seated approximately one thousand seven hundred Local Three-Sixteen members in the standard quarterly membership financial vote seating arrangement of approximately forty rows of approximately forty folding metal chairs across the central membership floor.

Keith Booker stood on the main union hall’s central elevated stage at the main union hall’s central elevated stage’s central podium.

Keith Booker held the standard Local Three-Sixteen regional union boss’s wooden quarterly membership financial vote gavel in his right hand against the central podium’s standard gavel-rest.

Keith Booker was wearing the standard Local Three-Sixteen regional union boss’s quarterly membership financial vote dark-gray three-piece suit and the standard Local Three-Sixteen regional union boss’s quarterly membership financial vote bright-red Western Industrial Trades Brotherhood neck-tie.

Keith Booker was reviewing the standard Local Three-Sixteen quarterly membership financial vote agenda on the central podium’s standard agenda-printout against the central podium’s standard reading-light.

I walked down the main union hall’s central membership floor’s center-aisle from the main union hall’s primary entrance’s interior side toward the central elevated stage’s central podium.

The standard Local Three-Sixteen quarterly membership financial vote agenda’s first agenda item was the standard quarterly financial summary report-out to the membership.

The standard quarterly membership financial vote agenda’s second agenda item was the standard quarterly financial summary up-or-down membership vote against the standard quarterly membership financial vote’s standard fifty-one-percent membership approval threshold.

The standard quarterly membership financial vote was scheduled to begin at eighteen hundred hours Thursday evening against the standard quarterly membership financial vote’s standard six-o’clock-pm doors-locked start time.

I was walking down the central membership floor’s center-aisle at five fifty-six Thursday evening.

I was four minutes from the standard quarterly membership financial vote’s standard six-o’clock-pm doors-locked start time.

I was four minutes from the standard quarterly financial summary up-or-down membership vote against the standard quarterly membership financial vote’s standard fifty-one-percent membership approval threshold.

I was four minutes from the membership’s ratification of Keith Booker’s twelve-quarter approximately three-million-one-hundred-and-forty-six-thousand-dollar redirection of the regional joint pension and welfare trust fund’s quarterly administrative cost-sharing remittance to the Working Families First Political Action Committee.

I kept walking.

I reached the main union hall’s central elevated stage’s first riser at five fifty-nine Thursday evening.

I walked up the central elevated stage’s standard four-step access stairwell on the central elevated stage’s house-right side.

I walked across the central elevated stage’s hardwood deck to the central podium’s hardwood floor-mark approximately fourteen feet to the central podium’s house-left side.

I stood at the central elevated stage’s central podium’s house-left side at six oh-oh Thursday evening.

I keyed the small portable digital voice recorder against my work jacket’s left chest pocket against the standard quarterly membership financial vote audit-record protocol.

I keyed the open mounted microphone at the central elevated stage’s secondary speaker’s podium against the central elevated stage’s house-left side at six oh-oh Thursday evening.

Keith Booker turned from the central elevated stage’s central podium toward the central elevated stage’s house-left side at the open mounted microphone’s audible feedback against the central elevated stage’s speaker system.

Keith Booker’s facial expression at six oh-oh Thursday evening was the facial expression of a man who had not expected the senior pension fund auditor to be standing at the central elevated stage’s secondary speaker’s podium at six oh-oh Thursday evening.

Keith Booker raised the standard Local Three-Sixteen regional union boss’s wooden quarterly membership financial vote gavel from the central podium’s standard gavel-rest.

Keith Booker told the central membership floor’s standard quarterly membership financial vote audio operator to cut my microphone.

The standard quarterly membership financial vote audio operator was a Local Three-Sixteen union steward named Howard Westbrook at the central membership floor’s audio-and-video operations control booth on the central membership floor’s house-right rear elevated booth platform.

Howard Westbrook hesitated against Keith Booker’s directive on the central membership floor’s house-right rear elevated booth platform’s audio-and-video operations console.

Howard Westbrook looked at the senior pension fund auditor’s federally registered ERISA-fiduciary identification badge on the senior pension fund auditor’s lanyard at the central elevated stage’s secondary speaker’s podium against the central elevated stage’s secondary speaker’s podium’s overhead spot lighting.

Howard Westbrook did not cut my microphone.

I spoke into the open mounted microphone at the central elevated stage’s secondary speaker’s podium at six oh-one Thursday evening.

I told the central membership floor’s approximately one thousand seven hundred Local Three-Sixteen members that the regional joint pension and welfare trust fund had remitted approximately three million one hundred and forty-six thousand United States dollars across the preceding twelve fiscal quarters to a state political action committee called the Working Families First Political Action Committee against the standard quarterly administrative cost-sharing remittance line item against the standard quarterly financial summary report-out’s reported transfer to the Western Industrial Trades Brotherhood’s national headquarters’ federally registered general administrative-cost remittance account.

I told the central membership floor that the Working Families First Political Action Committee’s federal political action committee statement-of-organization filing on the federally maintained Federal Election Commission’s political committee report disclosure portal carried Keith Booker’s authorized treasurer signature against the political action committee statement-of-organization filing.

I told the central membership floor that the Western Industrial Trades Brotherhood’s national headquarters’ federally registered general administrative-cost remittance accounting record carried a twelve-quarter cumulative delinquency notice against Local Three-Sixteen of approximately three million one hundred and forty-six thousand United States dollars across the preceding twelve fiscal quarters.

I told the central membership floor that the United States Department of Labor’s Office of Labor-Management Standards’ fiduciary compliance investigations division had dispatched a federal field investigations team to Local Three-Sixteen’s main union hall building against the regional joint pension and welfare trust fund’s federal fiduciary trustee panel against the standard federal ERISA fiduciary breach investigation protocol.

I told the central membership floor that the federal field investigations team was standing at the main union hall’s primary entrance at six oh-one Thursday evening.

I raised the senior pension fund auditor’s right hand toward the main union hall’s primary entrance’s interior side against the central elevated stage’s secondary speaker’s podium’s overhead spot lighting.

The main union hall’s primary entrance’s interior side carried four federal field investigations agents from the United States Department of Labor’s Office of Labor-Management Standards’ fiduciary compliance investigations division in standard federal field investigations agent’s navy-blue field windbreakers with federal field investigations agent’s gold-leaf shields on the navy-blue field windbreakers’ left chest panels.

The four federal field investigations agents stood across the main union hall’s primary entrance’s interior side against the standard federal field investigations agent’s standard quarterly membership financial vote observation protocol against the federally registered ERISA-regulated quarterly membership financial vote.

The central membership floor’s approximately one thousand seven hundred Local Three-Sixteen members turned in the standard quarterly membership financial vote seating arrangement’s approximately forty rows of approximately forty folding metal chairs toward the main union hall’s primary entrance’s interior side at six oh-two Thursday evening.

The central membership floor’s approximately one thousand seven hundred Local Three-Sixteen members went silent against the central membership floor’s standard quarterly membership financial vote seating arrangement.

Keith Booker raised the standard Local Three-Sixteen regional union boss’s wooden quarterly membership financial vote gavel a second time at the central podium against the central podium’s standard gavel-rest at six oh-two Thursday evening.

Keith Booker told me I was out of order at the central elevated stage’s secondary speaker’s podium.

Keith Booker told me to step away from the central elevated stage’s secondary speaker’s podium.

I stepped to the central elevated stage’s secondary speaker’s podium’s open mounted microphone at six oh-three Thursday evening.

I told Keith Booker the money did not go to the Western Industrial Trades Brotherhood’s national headquarters.

I told Keith Booker the money went to the Working Families First Political Action Committee.

I told Keith Booker the recipient deposit account number suffix on each of the twelve quarterly physical bank deposit slips ended in nine-six-three-seven.

I told Keith Booker the Working Families First Political Action Committee’s federally registered recipient bank account number suffix on the federally maintained state attorney general’s office’s federally maintained state political action committee registry ended in nine-six-three-seven.

I told Keith Booker the Western Industrial Trades Brotherhood’s national headquarters’ federally registered general administrative-cost remittance account number suffix on the federally registered account-identifier directory ended in four-two-eight-one.

I told Keith Booker he had asked the membership to vote for the membership’s own pension-fund robbery against the standard quarterly membership financial vote’s standard fifty-one-percent membership approval threshold.

I told Keith Booker the routing numbers were in the hands of the federal field investigations agents at the back of the main union hall.

Keith Booker stood at the central elevated stage’s central podium at six oh-four Thursday evening.

Keith Booker dropped the standard Local Three-Sixteen regional union boss’s wooden quarterly membership financial vote gavel onto the central podium’s hardwood floor-mark.

Keith Booker walked across the central elevated stage’s hardwood deck to the central elevated stage’s standard back-stage access stairwell on the central elevated stage’s house-right rear side at six oh-five Thursday evening.

Keith Booker walked down the central elevated stage’s standard back-stage access stairwell to the central elevated stage’s standard back-stage exit hallway against the central elevated stage’s standard back-stage access stairwell’s standard exit door.

Two of the four federal field investigations agents from the United States Department of Labor’s Office of Labor-Management Standards’ fiduciary compliance investigations division stood at the central elevated stage’s standard back-stage exit hallway against the central elevated stage’s standard back-stage exit door at six oh-five Thursday evening.

The two federal field investigations agents at the central elevated stage’s standard back-stage exit hallway presented Keith Booker with a federal field investigations agent’s federal arrest warrant against the United States District Court for the southwestern industrial corridor’s federal district magistrate’s federal arrest warrant against the regional joint pension and welfare trust fund’s ERISA-fiduciary breach against the regional joint pension and welfare trust fund’s federally registered ERISA-fiduciary breach investigation.

The two federal field investigations agents at the central elevated stage’s standard back-stage exit hallway escorted Keith Booker out of Local Three-Sixteen’s main union hall building at six oh-eight Thursday evening.

The federal grand jury’s federal ERISA-fiduciary breach indictment against Keith Booker on twelve counts of federal ERISA-fiduciary breach, twelve counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud against a federally registered ERISA-regulated pension and welfare trust fund, and four counts of federal political action committee receipts-disclosure fraud against the Federal Election Commission Form Three-X-X quarterly political committee receipts-and-disbursements report against the Working Families First Political Action Committee was unsealed approximately seven weeks after the central elevated stage’s standard back-stage exit hallway.

The federal grand jury’s federal indictment against Greg Mensching against the Working Families First Political Action Committee’s federal political action committee statement-of-organization filing’s authorized assistant treasurer signature on four counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud was unsealed in the same federal indictment.

Keith Booker pled guilty to four counts of federal ERISA-fiduciary breach and to one count of federal political action committee receipts-disclosure fraud approximately nine months after the federal grand jury’s federal ERISA-fiduciary breach indictment.

Keith Booker served fifty-six months in a federal correctional facility against the plea agreement.

Keith Booker was permanently barred from holding any federally registered ERISA-fiduciary trustee position in the United States as a condition of the plea.

The Working Families First Political Action Committee was federally dissolved against the federal political action committee receipts-disclosure fraud against the Federal Election Commission Form Three-X-X quarterly political committee receipts-and-disbursements report against the Working Families First Political Action Committee’s federally registered recipient bank account.

The Working Families First Political Action Committee’s federally registered recipient bank account suffix nine-six-three-seven’s approximately three million one hundred and forty-six thousand United States dollars in federally registered receipt funds was federally restored to the regional joint pension and welfare trust fund’s general operating account against the federal court’s federal restitution order.

The regional joint pension and welfare trust fund’s general operating account’s approximately three million one hundred and forty-six thousand United States dollars in federally restored funds was returned to the three thousand and forty Local Three-Sixteen industrial trades members’ retirement-funded asset base against the federal court’s federal restitution order.

The federal court’s federal restitution order placed Local Three-Sixteen of the Western Industrial Trades Brotherhood under federal receivership against the United States Department of Labor’s Office of Labor-Management Standards’ federal labor-management compliance receivership protocol pending Local Three-Sixteen’s standard federally registered ERISA-regulated regional union boss election cycle against the federal receivership’s federal-receivership operating budget.

The federal receivership’s federal-receivership operating budget retained Local Three-Sixteen’s main union hall building, the regional joint pension and welfare trust fund’s general operating account, the regional joint pension and welfare trust fund’s federal fiduciary trustee panel, and the senior pension fund auditor’s office on the third floor of Local Three-Sixteen’s main union hall building.

The federal receivership’s federal-receivership operating budget retained me as the senior pension fund auditor for the regional joint pension and welfare trust fund.

The federal receivership’s federal-receivership operating budget did not retain Local Three-Sixteen’s regional union boss’s office on the third floor of Local Three-Sixteen’s main union hall building.

The federal receivership’s federal-receivership operating budget did not retain Local Three-Sixteen’s regional union boss.

The federal receivership’s federal-receivership operating budget retained the federal receivership.

I walked up the central staircase to the senior pension fund auditor’s office on the third floor of Local Three-Sixteen’s main union hall building at six oh-five on a Thursday evening approximately fourteen weeks after the central elevated stage’s standard back-stage exit hallway.

The main union hall’s central membership floor was empty.

The main union hall’s central membership floor’s approximately forty rows of approximately forty folding metal chairs in the standard quarterly membership financial vote seating arrangement were stacked along the central membership floor’s house-left and house-right rear-walls in the standard folding-metal-chair off-season storage configuration.

The main union hall’s central elevated stage’s central podium stood empty under the central elevated stage’s overhead spot lighting at six oh-five Thursday evening.

The main union hall’s central elevated stage’s standard Local Three-Sixteen regional union boss’s wooden quarterly membership financial vote gavel sat on the central podium’s standard gavel-rest at six oh-five Thursday evening.

The main union hall’s central elevated stage’s standard Local Three-Sixteen regional union boss’s wooden quarterly membership financial vote gavel had not been used at a quarterly membership financial vote at Local Three-Sixteen’s main union hall in the approximately fourteen weeks since the central elevated stage’s standard back-stage exit hallway against the federal receivership’s federal-receivership operating budget.

The federal receivership’s federal-receivership operating budget did not authorize a quarterly membership financial vote against the federal receivership’s federal-receivership operating budget’s standard quarterly federal-receivership financial report-out to the membership.

The federal receivership’s federal-receivership operating budget did not authorize a regional union boss against the federal receivership’s federal-receivership operating budget’s standard quarterly federal-receivership financial report-out to the membership.

The federal receivership’s standard quarterly federal-receivership financial report-out to the membership against the federal receivership’s federal-receivership operating budget was a written report-out from the United States Department of Labor’s Office of Labor-Management Standards’ federally appointed federal receiver to the three thousand and forty Local Three-Sixteen industrial trades members against the standard quarterly federal-receivership financial report-out cycle.

I walked into the senior pension fund auditor’s office on the third floor of Local Three-Sixteen’s main union hall building at six oh-six Thursday evening.

I sat at the senior pension fund auditor’s desk.

I opened the trust fund’s accounts-payable disbursement system on the senior pension fund auditor’s read-only fiduciary credential on the desktop terminal’s left monitor.

The trust fund’s accounts-payable disbursement system’s current fiscal quarter’s “national headquarters administrative transfer” line item carried a current fiscal quarter total of approximately two hundred and forty-seven thousand United States dollars against the regional joint pension and welfare trust fund’s general administrative-cost ledger.

The trust fund’s accounts-payable disbursement system’s current fiscal quarter’s “national headquarters administrative transfer” line item’s required percentage against the regional joint pension and welfare trust fund’s current fiscal quarter total assets-under-management against the standard national headquarters administrative cost-sharing rate at six-tenths of one percent of the regional joint pension and welfare trust fund’s quarterly assets-under-management corresponded to approximately two hundred and forty-seven thousand United States dollars against the current fiscal quarter total.

The trust fund’s accounts-payable disbursement system’s current fiscal quarter’s “national headquarters administrative transfer” line item’s reported amount of approximately two hundred and forty-seven thousand United States dollars matched the required percentage against the standard administrative cost-sharing rate.

I closed the trust fund’s accounts-payable disbursement system on the senior pension fund auditor’s read-only fiduciary credential on the desktop terminal’s left monitor.

I packed the twelve printed copies of the twelve physical deposit slips, the Working Families First Political Action Committee’s federal political action committee statement-of-organization filing, the Federal Election Commission Form Three-X-X quarterly political committee receipts-and-disbursements report, and the Western Industrial Trades Brotherhood’s national headquarters’ federally registered general administrative-cost remittance accounting record’s twelve-quarter delinquency notice in the twelve individual eight-and-a-half-by-eleven manila document envelopes into the senior pension fund auditor’s leather briefcase.

I packed the small portable digital voice recorder into the senior pension fund auditor’s leather briefcase.

I packed the senior pension fund auditor’s federally registered ERISA-fiduciary identification badge on the senior pension fund auditor’s lanyard into the senior pension fund auditor’s leather briefcase.

I closed the senior pension fund auditor’s leather briefcase.

I locked the senior pension fund auditor’s office’s locked filing cabinet’s middle drawer.

I placed the small brass key in the small zippered chest pocket of my work jacket.

I walked out of the senior pension fund auditor’s office at six fifteen Thursday evening.

The main union hall building’s central staircase was empty.

The main union hall building’s primary entrance was empty.

The federally appointed federal receiver’s office on the third floor of Local Three-Sixteen’s main union hall building at six fifteen Thursday evening was the federally appointed federal receiver’s office.

The federally appointed federal receiver’s office on the third floor of Local Three-Sixteen’s main union hall building at six fifteen Thursday evening was not Keith Booker’s office.

Keith Booker thought solidarity meant silence.

He forgot that the numbers speak for themselves.

The spreadsheet is the spreadsheet.

The routing number is the routing number.

The deposit slip is the deposit slip.

The deposit slip cannot be forged.

The federal receivership is the federal receivership.

The federal receivership is the residue.

The federal receivership is the residue the three thousand and forty industrial trades members of Local Three-Sixteen carry against the price of their own retirement-security.

The federal receivership is the residue I will carry across the rest of my career as a senior pension fund auditor.

The work is the work.