An aide to presidential candidate Bernie Sanders who helped negotiate a union contract for Sanders campaign staff members can't serve as an officer of a labor union until 2026 because his 2013 sentence for embezzling United Steelworkers International Union funds forbids it.
When Vermont Digger reported that fact recently, another Sanders aide accused the news outlet of "helping to uphold" what he called "systemic racism" — because the former union leader is Latino.
