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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.
Ex-UAW Leader Sentenced
Dennis Williams, who led the United Auto Workers from 2014 to 2018, was one of two presidents convicted of corruption.
May 11th, 2021
In a Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, file photo, then-United Auto Workers president Dennis Williams speaks during a roundtable with reporters in Detroit. Prosecutors are seeking a two-year prison sentence for Williams, a former president of the United Auto Workers who they say had two lives as a leader of a blue-collar union and a connoisseur of premium champagne and California vacation villas paid for with members dues the U.S. attorney s office said in a court filing Monday, May 3, 2021.
Ex-UAW leader gets nearly 2 years in prison for corruption
DETROIT A welder who rose from the factory floor to become president of a venerable U.S. labor union was sentenced Tuesday to 21 months in prison for luxurious winter stays in the California sun covered by dues paid by his blue-collar members.
Dennis Williams, who led the United Auto Workers from 2014-18, was one of two presidents convicted of corruption in an investigation that revealed payoffs and embezzlements in the top tier of the Detroit-based union.
The probe has roiled the UAW and exposed brazen entitlement among union elite. The union has agreed to have an independent monitor watch its finances, and members might get an opportunity to elect future presidents rather than leave the job to delegates at a convention.