The verdict was based on legally sufficient evidence and was not against the weight of the evidence. The evidence warranted rejection of defendant's claim that he made, or believed he was making, authorized expenditures for union purposes, since the expenditures, such as hotel rooms for a relative having no connection to union business, were "so clearly personal in nature that such a claim is scarcely credible." (United States v Ottley,
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