Former UAW President Dennis Williams sentenced 21 months in prison for embezzlement
Posted at 4:20 PM, May 11, 2021
and last updated 2021-05-11 16:23:58-04
(WXYZ) â A welder who rose from the factory floor to become president of a venerable U.S. labor union was convicted and sentenced to 21 months in prison for corruption.
Ex-UAW President Dennis Williams took winter vacations in the California sun covered by dues paid by members of the United Auto Workers. Williams, who led the UAW from 2014 to 2018, appeared in federal court Tuesday. He s the latest in a long line of union officials who acknowledge betraying members through corruption.
Former International UAW President Dennis Williams sentenced to 21 months in federal prison
Sentence comes after former union boss pleaded guilty to conspiring to embezzle union funds
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DETROIT – Dennis Williams, former president of the International United Auto Workers union, was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison on Tuesday.
Williams pleaded guilty on Sept. 30, 2020 to conspiring with other UAW officials to embezzle UAW funds, according to the Department of Justice.
At that time Williams pleaded guilty before United States District Judge Paul Borman to charges of conspiring with former UAW President Gary Jones and other senior UAW officials to embezzle UAW dues money between 2010 and September 2019.
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Williams, a 40-year union veteran, rose to the UAW s most powerful position in 2014 hoping to bring a disciplined, business-oriented mindset to the union.
Dennis Williams, the 11th president of the UAW, who stressed financial discipline and railed against corruption while simultaneously bilking union members out of more than $132,000, was sentenced Tuesday to 21 months in federal prison.
The United Auto Workers union president from 2014 to 2018, Williams is the highest-ranking UAW member to be sentenced in a yearslong corruption investigation that has netted 15 convictions and put the UAW under a six-year period of government oversight. Williams pleaded guilty in September to embezzlement and spending hundreds of thousands of member dollars on trips to Palm Springs, Calif., golf outings, fancy dinners and other luxuries.
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