A Federal Judge last week rejected an attempt by dissident union members to stop the Correction Officers Benevolent Association from paying the legal costs of its former president, Norman Seabrook, who is facing trial in October on bribe-receiving charges.
The members, who are suing the union over $20 million that seems to have disappeared after Mr. Seabrook invested it in a hedge fund, asked in May that COBA be barred from paying his defense fees and that he repay any money he had received so far.
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