DETROIT (AP) — A monitor appointed by a federal judge in the wake of a United Auto Workers bribery and embezzlement scandal contends that the union has been uncooperative by
“All I can say is I am sorry.” That’s what former United Auto Workers president Gary Jones told a federal judge during his sentencing hearing Thursday on
Former United Auto Workers (UAW) president Gary Jones as has been sentenced to 28 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to stealing from the union he’d served for 45 years.
Government seeks 2-year prison sentence for ex-UAW leader
ED WHITE, Associated Press
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FILE - 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.Paul Sancya/AP
DETROIT (AP) Prosecutors are seeking a two-year prison sentence for a former president of the United Auto Workers who they say had “two lives as a leader of a blue-collar union and as a connoisseur of premium champagne and California vacation villas paid for with members dues.