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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.
Ex-UAW leader Dennis Williams gets 21 months in prison for corruption
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Convicted cadaver dealer Arthur Rathburn is pleading for compassionate release from prison citing fears of contracting the coronavirus though the government says that s hogwash.
The Grosse Pointe Park businessman has refused to take a COVID-19 vaccine, prosecutors noted in a court filing Wednesday as they push to keep him locked up.
Prosecutors have cited several reasons for keeping Rathburn behind bars, including:
A generalized fear of contracting the coronavirus doesn t justify compassionate release.
He doesn t have a recognized chronic condition that puts him at an increased risk of severe illness from the virus.
He won t follow social-distancing rules and could sicken others if released.
Dennis Williams led a double life as president of the UAW, and the stain the ex-labor leader left on the union as part of the corruption scandal will burden its members for years to come, according to federal prosecutors.
In a sentencing memo Monday, prosecutors asked that Williams, of Corona, California, receive a two-year prison sentence and pay a substantial fine for taking advantage of his position when he should have been looking out for the members. Instead, he and other top union officials embezzled thousands of dollars for fancy meals, booze, cigars and other goodies, they said. (Williams) told his fellow union members that CEOs and board members and Wall Street didn’t have a problem getting theirs so we should not feel bad about getting ours. . But he was corrupted by the power. Williams ignored his responsibility to act on behalf of the hard-working men and women of the UAW. The we that he helped get theirs were the top-level officials, includ
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