Posted on 03/05/2020 7:22:00 AM PST by John W
DETROIT – Former United Auto Workers President Gary Jones was charged with embezzlement and defrauding the U.S. government as part of a multiyear corruption probe into one of America’s most prominent unions, according to the documents unsealed Thursday.
The documents suggests more charges of union officials could follow as federal prosecutors identified four other unnamed co-conspirators in the scheme that allegedly included embezzling more than $1 million of union funds.
Jones resigned from leading the union effective Nov. 20 — the same day the UAW International Executive Board started the process under the union’s constitution to remove him from office.
Jones began a leave of absence from the union starting Nov. 3, days after he was most recently implicated as being part of the ongoing probe that has led to convictions of 13 other people, including 10 affiliated with the union and three Fiat Chrysler executives.
The charges against Jones come days after federal prosecutors secured the conviction of one of his former top aides, Edward “Nick” Robinson.
Jones and his predecessor, UAW President Dennis Williams, have been targeted by federal officials for some time as part of the probe, including raids on their homes in August.
Federal officials previously said Jones, who was elected UAW president in June 2018, was one of a handful of union leaders who conspired to “embezzle, steal, and unlawfully and willfully abstract” more than $1.5 million in cash and assets for personal gain to fuel “lavish lifestyles.”
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Is anybody honest anymore?!?!
That reminds me, I have to go to my mother’s today and get all of her bank account and investments information since she chose me out of the 5 kids to hold that information now that she’s on in years.
those that know me here would think she’s crazy picking me.
OK, let me run along and practice forging her signature.. :)
Money...why is it so hard to be honest when you have access to others’ money?
At least this guy will pay the price.
You haven't introduced us to the other kids!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf0fmqWS-kI
Criminals, marxists (Coleman Young/Kwame Kilpatrick) thugs DESTROYED the big D. I saw it first hand. I lived it.
Leeches on the company.
Leeches on the workers.
Leeches on the customers.
Wow, a corrupt union exec! Who would have thought?
“This is muh brother Daryl and muh otha brother Daryl...”
Unions have gone to Hell since Jimmy Hoffa retired.
ROFL!!!
Well my brother’s wife has financially ruined him so maybe i’m a better choice than him.
A lawyer...and yet a mouse when it comes to that wife of his.
This brutal pandemic that is ruining men’s lives all over the world with no country really safe is just horrible.
The scourge has been around forever and will be around forever causing mayhem and destruction to men everywhere until the end of time.
And then there’s the viruses :)
A long suffering lawyer manipulated by a greedy wife is probably an unwise choice as financial guardian! He would know how to do wrong when she asked him to.
Agreed!!
One of the most dangerous scourges in the world is being completely and utterly smitten by an evil woman.
Thank goodness I’m so self centered :)
What??! Corruption in a UNION??? Unheard of!
The president of the local that I was forced to pay dues to for 25 years is the most despicable person I have ever known. He should never have been allowed to finish his probationary year. He was assigned to me right after he finished his probation. He idolized the show Wiseguy and even adopted a NY accent despite being a local boy.
One of my wife’s sisters was greedy and bitchy. Her husband had a Harvard degree, but did the minimum, hoping to inherit. They got written out of his parents’ will. But had they not been, there would have been abuse of trust... at the minimum.
So, character matters.
From your posts, I’d guess I’m halfway in age between you and your mother. I have to think about “who” and “how”. I think my kids could pull it off... but you never know for sure, do you?
At least he at least didn't embezzled $2 million... So we should forgive him... 😋
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