The founder and treasurer of the National Association of Special Police and Security Officers was charged with mail fraud.

The founder and treasurer of the National Association of Special Police and Security Officers (NASPSO) was charged on Friday with mail fraud, theft from a labor organization, obstruction of justice, criminal contempt and various record keeping offenses related to his operation of a pension plan for NASPSO members.

NASPSO is a labor union representing private security officers contracted by the General Services Administration (GSA) to be assigned to protect federal buildings in the Washington, D.C., metro area.
Caleb Gray-Burriss, 60, of Washington, D.C., will be arraigned on April 4, 2011, in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Gray-Burriss originally was charged in June 2010 with four counts of mail fraud.

According to the superseding indictment, from approximately June 2004 through February 2011, Gray-Burriss wrote numerous checks to himself or to other third parties from the checking account where he had placed funds intended for the NASPSO pension plan. The superseding indictment alleges that Gray-Burriss spent more than $100,000 of the pension plan funds in this way, while at the same time falsely maintaining that it was an operational fund that he was properly administering and that was providing benefits to the beneficiaries.

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