Former Union Employee and Former Assistant Attorney General Both Charged in Forging Scheme

Case involves forged union interest cards at UAA

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By Kate McPherson
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Story Created: Feb 10, 2012 at 5:53 PM AKDT

Story Updated: Feb 10, 2012 at 8:24 PM AKDT

Court documents say so far investigators have been able to verify that 13 interest cards were not completed or signed by the university staff member whose name appears on the card.

Erin Pohland was the assistant attorney general at the time of the incident in 2010, and she was responsible for providing legal advice to the Alaska Labor Relations Agency, which oversees the union’s petitions and verifies the expression of interest from workers.

Court documents filed on January 30 this year say Pohland and the accused union worker McRoberts were actually friends - and Poland didn't turn in the suspected forged documents to police. Pohland is charged with official misconduct.

The charging documents can be read here.

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Anonymous said on Sunday, Feb 12 at 11:16 AM

that pales in comparison to the oil stock that Palin and Parnell funneled to a Swiss bank acct. And now the President is asking questions...darn that is the end for those two as well...what goes around comes around...sound familiar? todd

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OMG said on Saturday, Feb 11 at 8:59 PM

No wonder nothing gets done in the state, they get paid by us and work for the unions

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Raven33 said on Saturday, Feb 11 at 3:21 PM

Those Por-Union types that insist this story is not about Unions. It's about crimianls. Are the first to put all Christians in the same boat as those that act un-Christianly. Hmmm. Maybe a double standard or maybe just hypocritical?

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Erroll Booth said on Saturday, Feb 11 at 1:42 PM

as if this is anything new about state officials breaking the law and continue to get away with it.I want to know how it is legal for the state unemployment agency to withhold my UI benefits and give it to the states collection agency when i file for UI i don't know if its against the law or not but to me it just don't seem acceptable or right. corruption in our state and city workers is alot more than what the public sees and its the public that suffers from their misconduct and abuse.

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