O'Hara

Teamsters Local 856. appeals the district court’s summary judgment in favor of former union officials Bento and Catherine Leal in the Leal’s action for indemnification arising out of an underlying age discrimination/wrongful termination action brought by former union employee Helen O’Hara against the union and the Leals. We affirm.

I.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Helen O’Hara (“O’Hara”) began working as a bookkeeper in San Francisco for Teamsters Local 856 (“union”) in 1989. At that time, Bento Leal was the union Secretary/Treasurer and Chief Executive Officer. Leal’s daughter, Catherine Leal, was the union’s Office Coordinator and O’Hara’s immediate supervisor.

In October 1990, O’Hara met with court-appointed federal agents who were investigating Teamster locals pursuant to a settlement agreement between the national union and the United States, entered into in the Southern District of New York. United States v. Int’l Bhd. of Teamsters, 708 F.Supp. 1388 (S.D.N.Y.1989). O’Hara met with the agents a second time in February 1991. O’Hara allegedly told investigators that Catherine Leal had forced her to sign an attendance sheet for a union meeting she did not attend, that…