Feds charge 16th person
Prosecutors allege Tim Edmunds, a former financial secretary at UAW Local 412 in Warren, Mich., stole roughly $2 million.
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Pearson sentenced to 1 year
Vance Pearson was sentenced for conspiring to embezzle union funds and further racketeering activity with other high-ranking union officials.
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Jones sentenced to 28 months
Ex-UAW President Gary Jones is the second-consecutive UAW leader to be put behind bars.
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Judge approves UAW monitor
Attorney Neil Barofsky previously was appointed to oversee Credit Suisse Securities and Credit Suisse AG following billion-dollar settlements.
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Ex-President Williams gets 21 months
The UAW's president from 2014 to 2018, Dennis Williams is the highest-ranking UAW member to be sentenced in a yearslong corruption probe that has netted 15 convictions.
Read the storyUAW reaches deal with feds
The UAW will avoid a government takeover under a deal struck with the U.S. Justice Department that will put the union under the oversight of an independent monitor for six years and allow members to change the way leaders are elected.
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Joe Ashton sentenced to 30 months
Ashton, who negotiated the UAW's 2011 contract with GM and later became a GM board member, was sentenced on money laundering and wire fraud charges.
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Dennis Williams, who served as the UAW's president from 2014 to 2018, pleaded guilty on Sept. 30 to embezzling money from the members he once led.
Read the storyFormer UAW president charged
Federal prosecutors charged ex-UAW President Dennis Williams, who led the UAW from 2014 to 2018, with conspiring to embezzle funds from rank-and-file workers for nearly a decade.
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Former UAW president pleads guilty
Gary Jones agreed to forfeit $144,000 and is expected to serve about four years in prison. His sentence could be reduced if the assistance he provides to investigators is substantial.
Read the storyFormer UAW President Jones charged
Federal prosecutors on Thursday charged Gary Jones, the former president of the UAW, with embezzling more than $1.5 million from the union he once led. Jones was charged in a criminal information, indicating he's expected to plead guilty.
Read the storyJones aide pleads guilty
Edward Robinson, a top aide to former UAW President Gary Jones, pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiring to embezzle union funds and conspiring to defraud the U.S.
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Pearson pleads guilty
Former UAW Regional Director Vance Pearson, shown above, pleaded guilty in federal court on Feb. 7 to conspiring with at least six other UAW officials to embezzle union funds and to further racketeering activity. He agreed to cooperate in the federal government's investigation, which also targets former UAW Presidents Gary Jones and Dennis Williams. On Feb. 19, Michael Grimes, a former assistant in the UAW's General Motors department, was sentenced to 28 months for wire fraud and money laundering.
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Guilty plea expected
Federal prosecutors filed new charges against former UAW Region 5 Director Vance Pearson, indicating that they expect him to plead guilty to embezzling member dues to pay for expensive cigars, golf equipment and other luxuries.
Read the storyAshton pleads guilty
Joe Ashton, the UAW's lead negotiator with GM in 2011 who later sat on the automaker's board, pleaded guilty to money laundering and wire fraud. He is expected to receive a prison sentence of 30 to 37 months and agreed to forfeit $250,000 he collected in kickbacks. Sentencing is scheduled for March 3.
Read the storyFeds say UAW not cooperating
U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider said while the UAW has not adequately cooperated with the yearslong federal investigation of the union, his office has received new tips about corruption within the union.
Read the storyPearson quits the UAW
Former UAW regional director Vance Pearson, facing charges of misusing hundreds of thousands of dollars of union funds, appeared in federal court two days after resiging from his position and terminating his membership.
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News of Gary Jones' decision to resign came shortly after the UAW's International Executive Board voted unanimously to seek the permanent removal of Jones and regional director Vance Pearson from the union.
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GM filed a racketeering lawsuit against FCA, saying it has been substantially damaged because FCA "undermined the integrity of the collective bargaining process" over the past decade. Three former FCA executives who have pleaded guilty in the ongoing UAW corruption scandal were named as defendants.
Read the storyFormer UAW VP charged
Federal prosecutors charged former UAW Vice President Joe Ashton, who headed the union's 2011 negotiations with General Motors and was on GM's board for three years, with money laundering and wire fraud.
Read the storyUAW President Jones takes leave
Rory Gamble, vice president of the UAW-Ford department, will be acting president after Gary Jones requested a leave of absence. Jones has been reportedly implicated in the federal probe into the UAW.
Read the story12th person charged
Edward Robinson, former top aide to UAW President Gary Jones and head of a UAW regional community action program council, was charged with conspiracy to embezzle union funds and conspiracy to defraud the U.S.
Read the story6th ex-UAW official pleads guilty
Jeffery Pietrzyk, a former assistant to former UAW-GM Department Vice President Joe Ashton, pleaded guilty on Oct. 22 to charges of conspiracy and fraud.
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UAW President Jones, predecessor implicated
Vance Pearson, shown at right next to UAW President Gary Jones, was arrested Sept. 12 and charged with conspiring to embezzle UAW funds. He is president of the union's Region 5. The Detroit News reports that Jones and former President Dennis Williams are among officials implicated, but unnamed, in the criminal complaint against Pearson.
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Former UAW official pleads guilty
Michael Grimes, who worked as an assistant in the UAW's General Motors department, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Ann Arbor, Mich., to wire fraud and money laundering charges.
Read the storyHome raids and more indictments
The FBI is investigating UAW President Gary Jones, whose home was raided this week by federal agents, over allegations of financial crimes. Sources told The Detroit News that investigators are looking into whether Jones or other UAW officials spent member dues on junkets to California and other potential wrongdoing.
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9th person charged in probe
Michael Grimes, a senior UAW official who "at times worked closely with the UAW Vice President and Director of the GM Department," according to court filings, faces wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering charges. In court filings, Grimes and other unnamed UAW officials are accused of accepting bribes and kickbacks worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Jewell sentenced to 15 months
Former UAW Vice President Norwood Jewell was sentenced to 15 months in prison and a year of supervised probation for his role in a multimillion-dollar corruption scandal involving the union and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.
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Iacobelli sentenced
Former Fiat Chrysler Automobiles labor relations chief Alphons Iacobelli is sentenced to 66 months in federal prison for tax evasion and his role in a wide-ranging conspiracy to win favorable treatment from the UAW for FCA.
Read the storyUAW aide strikes plea deal
Nancy Adams Johnson, 57, a former top aide to ex-UAW Vice President Norwood Jewell, enters a plea deal for her involvement in a scheme to misappropriate funds to top UAW officials.
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Two former officials with the UAW-Chrysler National Training Center plead guilty for their part in the in $4.5 million-plus corruption scandal. Michael Brown, formerly an FCA employee and co-director of the training center, pleads guilty to one count of lying to a federal grand jury. UAW official Keith Mickens, who oversaw operations of the UAW-Chrysler National Training Center, pleads guilty to one count of conspiring to violate the Labor Relations Act.
Read the storyMorgan sentenced
Monica Morgan, widow of former UAW Vice President General Holiefield, was sentenced to 18 months in prison as part of a plea deal. She pleaded guilty to one count of filing a false tax return in February. Morgan was also given one year of supervised release and a $25,000 fine.
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Nancy Johnson, a former top aide of ex-UAW Vice President Norwood Jewell, is charged with accepting tens of thousands of dollars in illegal payments from Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. Jewell headed the most recent round of talks with FCA and abruptly retired at the end of last year. He has been implicated in the scandal but not formally named or charged by investigators. Johnson faces five counts of criminal violations, including conspiring to violate the Labor Management Relations Act. She faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison, and a fine of up to $250,000.
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Morgan pleads guilty
Monica Morgan pleads guilty to one count of subscribing a false tax return. Sentencing was scheduled for June 4. The widow of former UAW Vice President General Holiefield faces a maximum of 27 months in prison but the government is arguing for a higher sentencing range. She also will be required to pay restitution of $190,747 to the U.S. Treasury Department for unpaid tax obligations from 2011-14, according to the plea deal.
Read the storyWere negotiations tainted?
A lawsuit, which seeks class action status on behalf of tens of thousands of UAW members, is filed by three union members who work at FCA. The plaintiffs allege their union cheated them out of "hundreds of millions of dollars" in union dues that were "wasted on tainted bargaining."
Read the storyScandal widens
Details of the plea deal for Alphons Iacobelli, FCA's former head of labor relations, show federal officials saying company executives paid UAW officials in an attempt to influence union decisions and collective bargaining agreements, which were ratified in 2011 and 2015.
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Iacobelli pleads guilty
Alphons Iacobelli pleads guilty to conspiring to violate the Labor Management Relations Act and for subscribing a false tax return in U.S. District Court in Detroit. Sentencing was set for May 29, 2018. FCA's former head of labor relations faces a statutory maximum of eight years in prison, and prosecutors say he will be required to repay $835,000.
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Retired UAW Associate Director Virdell King pleads guilty to one felony count of conspiracy to violate the Labor Management Relations Act.
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Virdell King charged
Virdell King, a retired UAW associate director, is charged in a 17-page document with using a credit card from a training center for Chrysler employees to buy more than $40,000 worth of clothing, jewelry, luggage and other personal items for herself and other senior UAW officials.
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Durden pleads guilty
Jerome Durden, a former financial analyst at FCA, pleads guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government, a felony, and one misdemeanor charge of failing to file a tax return for the approximately $4,000 he received in 2013 under the conspiracy.
Read the storyIndictment released
Federal prosecutors release an indictment charging Former Chrysler Group Vice President of Employee Relations Alphons Iacobelli and Monica Morgan, widow of former UAW Vice President General Holiefield, with criminal violations of the National Labor Relations Act. Separately, federal officials unseal former FCA financial analyst Jerome Durden's case and announce the charges.
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Charges filed
Federal prosecutors charge former FCA financial analyst Jerome Durden, who is accused of creating false tax returns to hide the payments to former UAW Vice President General Holiefield, Former Chrysler Group Vice President of Employee Relations Al Iacobelli and other beneficiaries who were not identified, with conspiracy to defraud the United States and Failure to file tax return. The documents are sealed. PICTURED: From the 2011 UAW-Chrysler contract talks: then-UAW President Bob King, far left, with Holiefield, Chrysler Senior Vice President Manufacturing Scott Garberding and lacobelli, far right. Photo credit: Reuters/Rebecca Cook