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Former UAW President Gary Jones faces a prison sentence after helping steal $1.5 million from workers and pushing the union into government oversight.

Gary Jones is the second of two former UAW presidents sentenced to prison for his role in the wide-ranging corruption scandal.

June 10, 2021 — Gary Jones, the former President of the international United Auto Workers union, was sentenced to 28 months in prison today for conspiring with other UAW officials to embezzle UAW funds and to defraud the United States announced Acting U.S. Attorney Saima S. Mohsin.

Federal judge hands UAW ex-President Dennis Williams wrist-slap sentence of 21 months for corruption charges On Tuesday, a federal judge for the Eastern District of Michigan sentenced former United Auto Workers International President Dennis Williams to 21 months in prison with one year of supervised release, three months less than originally recommended. In addition, he must pay $132,000 in restitution and a $10,000 fine. Williams is one of 15 individuals to have been charged in connection to the ongoing criminal investigation into corruption within the UAW. US District Judge Paul Borman han...

View Comments Detroit — Retired United Auto Workers President Dennis Williams should not spend more than one year and a day in federal prison for stealing from union members because he is an American success story, is charitable and has health problems, his lawyers argued late Monday. The attorneys pushed back against the government's request that Williams, 67, one of two former presidents convicted in a years-long investigation into corruption within the U.S. auto industry, spend two years in federal prison for helping push one of the nation's most influential unions into prolonged govern...