The Washington Teachers’ Union has a bad reputation when it comes to finances. Remember Barbara Bullock? As union president, she plundered the WTU treasury for upward of $5 million to finance shopping trips to Neiman Marcus and other high-end retailers for her and her cronies—a fraud that landed her in prison after she was caught in 2002.

And it’s happening again, if you believe a lawsuit filed in federal court on Monday.

The author of the allegations is Nathan A. Saunders, the WTU’s general vice president. He says that two of the union’s top dogs—President George Parker and his chief of staff, Clay White—“embezzled, stole, or unlawfully and willfully converted WTU money and funds to their own use or the use of others.” Specifically, Saunders alleges a “diversion of WTU funds, through an out of state company, to a family member [of White’s] over a protracted period of time,” as well as an “undecipherable $10,000 finder’s fee” attached to a rental contract.

Don’t expect search warrants, FBI raids, and front-page Washington Post stories on this one: Saunders provides little documentation of these offenses in his 47-page complaint, which lists as defendants Parker, White, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty, D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee, agents of the American Federation of Teachers (the WTU’s parent union), and other various WTU board members and DCPS employees.... Continued