DETROIT — Tim Edmunds, a former UAW official at Local 412 in Warren, Mich., pleaded guilty Friday to embezzling $2.2 million in union funds and to money laundering.
He could face up to nearly five years in prison, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Michigan
The guilty pleas come roughly four months after Edmunds, 54, was charged with the crimes after an internal UAW audit discovered the wrongdoing. He is the 16th individual charged — and 16th to plead guilty — in the government's ongoing corruption probe that has resulted in a six-year period of oversight for the union.