Maryland union president convicted of stealing about $1 million in member funds

A federal jury in Greenbelt, Maryland, convicted Kimberly Goodwin, 54, of Bowie, the former president of American Federation of Government Employees Local 2419, of participating in a wire-fraud conspiracy and eight counts of money laundering, the Justice Department said on Monday in press release 26-1001.

The department said Goodwin was president of the local from January 2017 to August 2019, when it represented about 500 National Institutes of Health employees. Under her authority, the department said, the union transferred about $1 million received from NIH from multiple employee-grievance lawsuits into the local’s bank account. She then used signatory power she retained after her term expired in 2019 to transfer about $1 million from 2019 to 2022 to a consulting company she owned “for services that were never provided by her consulting firm, or whose invoiced value far exceeded the true value of the service rendered.”

Evidence at trial showed there had not been a meeting of Local 2419 since 2020, that the local ran out of money and went into receivership in 2022, and that Goodwin spent union money on personal shopping, including a $7,400 massage chair, the department said. Kelleigh Williams, the local’s secretary-treasurer, was convicted in 2025 of wire-fraud conspiracy. The department did not announce a sentencing date for Goodwin.