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By Thomas Gnau, Staff Writer 4:53 PM Tuesday, February 21, 2012

The former president of a union representing Dayton Regional Transit Authority drivers has been indicted in federal court on one count of allegedly stealing union funds.

The indictment came last week in Cincinnati’s U.S. District Court against Claude Huff, former president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1385. The local represents some 475 RTA employees.

Huff resigned the presidency of the local unit in November 2010, a day before an ATU hearing on allegations that Huff overpaid himself from union funds.

In January 2011, U.S. Department of Labor investigators seized five years of financial records from Local 1385’s Heid Avenue’s offices.

The recent indictment says that between Feb. 15, 2007 and Nov. 16, 2010, Huff “did embezzle, steal and unlawfully and willfully abstract and convert to his own use and the use of another the moneys, funds, securities, property and other assets of said labor organization in an amount exceeding $100,000.”

Local 1385 was placed in trusteeship under its international union in late 2010, with Rodney Richmond, a vice president with the international, taking over the local. Richmond has not returned calls seeking comment in recent days. A message seeking comment with left with a spokesman at the union’s Washington, D.C. office.

A phone listing for Huff in Huber Heights has been disconnected.

Mark Donaghy, executive director of Dayton RTA, could not be reached for comment.

Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2390 or tgnau@DaytonDailyNews.com.

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