The Region - News from April 14, 1987

A former Teamsters Union official was sentenced to nine months in a federal halfway house for accepting bribes from non-union trucking companies and failing to report the bribes on his income tax return. “Corruption in unions is really a vicious thing,” U.S. District Judge David V. Kenyon said in imposing sentence on Tim Clinton Williams of El Monte, former business agent for Local 598 in Los Angeles. Williams, 45, pleaded guilty to using his union position to obtain trucking business for non-union companies at firms at which he represented employees. “I will never forgive myself,” a tearful Williams told the judge, who responded: “We all have temptations, things that we want, but we don’t do it by selling our souls, and that’s what happens when you start misusing power and trust.” Williams was also ordered to pay about $9,500 in back income taxes.