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Thursday, August 29, 2019

Federal agents raid Detroit-area home of UAW president Gary Jones

Chicago — Federal agents on Wednesday descended on the homes of top officials with one of the nation's largest unions. FBI raids on the homes of Gary Jones — the current president of the United Auto Workers (UAW) and Dennis Williams his immediate predecessor — signaled a dramatic escalation of a four-year probe into illegal payments to union officials.

The corruption investigation has so far led to the convictions of eight people linked to the UAW and to Fiat-Chrysler involving bribes and kickbacks designed to influence the nation's sixth largest union's bargaining position at contract talks with automakers.

Peter Henning, a former federal prosecutor and a law professor at Wayne State University in Detroit, explained what's next in the case.

"Prosecutors are going to look at everything that they get and make a real effort to see if there were payoffs to the top leadership of the United Auto Workers," Henning said. "And if there were, that could be a disaster not only for the UAW, but also for the automakers."

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Some more democratic corruption

Anonymous said...

They found Jimmy Hoffa, past President of AFL-CIO union, in his Chest Freezer!

Anonymous said...

They just got caught. Happens all the time.

Anonymous said...

Good! Go get those Union Douche Bags!

Anonymous said...

Without those Union douche bags, you would be riding a bicycle to work you asswipe