Feds investigating current and former UAW union bosses for yearslong embezzlement scheme

By Tim Pearce

Published September 13, 2019 6:25pm ET

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Feds investigating current and former UAW union bosses for yearslong embezzlement scheme — Dennis Williams, president of the United Auto Workers union (UAW), speaks during the start of labor negotiations with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV (FCA), at the UAW-Chrysler National Training Center in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., on Tuesday, July 14, 2015. With negotiations kicking off this month between U.S. carmakers and their main domestic labor union, talks involving Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV are poised to be the most contentious. | (Jeff Kowalsky/Bloomberg)

Current and former top officials of the United Auto Workers union are implicated in a federal investigation into criminal activities involving a yearslong scheme to embezzle members’ dues payments.

UAW President Gary Jones and former union President Dennis Williams are two of four unnamed senior union officials found complicit in an embezzlement and money laundering scheme that involved roughly $1 million-worth of illicit transactions, sources told the Detroit News.

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