A former assistant U.S. attorney who was also a key player in stabilizing the economy in the 2008 financial crisis has been picked, pending court approval, as the independent monitor for the UAW as part of its consent decree related to the years-long corruption probe.
The U.S. Attorney's Office in Detroit filed a court motion Monday requesting Neil Barofsky, a partner in the law firm of Jenner & Block, headquartered in Chicago, as the monitor. In that position he would oversee the upcoming election to determine how the UAW's top leaders are picked and would be authorized to remove corruption.