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Former Chrysler Exec, Widow of Auto Workers V.P. Indicted in Massive Ripoff Posted on With a certain reluctance, Chrysler Corporation accepted the Obama administration’s forcible transfer in 2009 of company stock to the United Auto Workers. The Auburn Hills, Mich.-based automaker now is feeling an aftershock. On July 26, Alphons Iacobelli, the company’s former labor negotiator, and Monica Morgan, the widow of UAW Vice President General Holiefield, were indicted in U.S. District Court for t...

UAW agrees to government monitoring, settles corruption suit Consent decree with Justice Department calls for an independent monitor to investigate future corruption, discipline union officials. Detroit, Michigan – The United Auto Workers (UAW) union has agreed to a consent decree with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit, settling a long-running corruption investigation that led to convictions or guilty pleas from several Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) executives and union officials incl...

Credit UAW Five years after the FBI began investigating corruption in the leadership ranks of the United Auto Workers union, the U.S. Justice Department and the union have agreed to a consent order that places the union under the oversight of an independent monitor. The investigation began with charges against a former Fiat Chrysler official, and spread from there, ending with two former UAW presidents, Gary Jones and Dennis Williams, pleading guilty to embezzlement, among other crimes. The mon...