United Auto Workers
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Office of Labor-Management Enforcement
The Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) conducts both civil and criminal investigations of alleged violations of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA) and related laws.
These investigations by OLMS District Offices involve issues such as embezzlements of union funds, union officer elections, the filing of required reports by unions and others with OLMS, and the imposition of trusteeships over subordinate unions by a parent body. These investigations may result in legal enforcement actions.
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| February 1st, 2022 | On February 1, 2022, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, Kenneth Vorlob, former Financial Secretary/Treasurer of United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 557 (located in Kenosha, Wisc.), was charged by information with one count of embezzling union funds totaling $12,827, in violation of 29 U.S.C. 501(c). The charge follows an investigation by the OLMS Detroit-Milwaukee District Office. |
| December 1st, 2021 | On December 1, 2021, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Timothy Edmunds, former Financial Secretary of United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 412 (located in Warren, Mich.), was indicted with one count of embezzlement of union funds in the amount of $2,000,000, one count of bank fraud, and one count of money laundering, in violation of 29 U.S.C. 501(c), 18 U.S.C. 1344(2), and 18 U.S.C. 1957, respectively. The charges follow an investigation by the OLMS Detroit-Milwaukee District Office, the Department of Labors Office of Inspector General, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Internal Revenue Service. |
| January 27th, 2021 | On January 27, 2021, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles US LLC (FCA), located in Detroit, Mich., was charged in an information with one count of conspiracy to violate the Labor Management Relations Act (LMRA), in violation of 18 U.S.C. 371. FCA was charged with knowingly joining a conspiracy whereby it paid and delivered over $3.5 million in money and things of value to officers and employees of the United Auto Workers (UAW), also located in Detroit, Mich., from 2009 through 2016. The prohibited payments and things of value included the payment of approximately $262,000 to satisfy the outstanding mortgage on the residence of former UAW Vice President General Holiefield, $25,000 for a party for former UAW Vice President Norwood Jewell, and over $30,000 in meals for UAW officials at various restaurants in Palm Springs and Southern California. The charge follows an investigation by the OLMS Detroit-Milwaukee District Office, the Department of Labors Office of Inspector General, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Internal Revenue Service. |
| January 12th, 2021 | On January 12, 2021, in the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan, Brian Rittenhouse, former Financial Secretary of United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 1320 (located in Grandville, Mich.), was indicted with one count of embezzlement and one count of false entry in a record required to be kept by a labor organization, in violation of 29 U.S.C. 501(c) and 29 U.S.C. 439(c), respectively. The charges follow an investigation by the OLMS Detroit-Milwaukee District Office. |
| August 27th, 2020 | On August 27, 2020, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Dennis Williams, former President of United Auto Workers (UAW), located in Detroit, Michigan, was charged by information with one count of conspiracy to embezzle union funds, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 371 and 29 U.S.C. 501(c). From at least 2010 and continuing through in or about September 2019, Williams embezzled and conspired to embezzle approximately $71,500 in union funds, which included accepting a villa in Palm Springs, California in December 2015, 2016, and 2018 that was paid for with UAW funds and accepting $6,000 in golf gift certificates. The charges follow an investigation by the OLMS Detroit-Milwaukee District Office, the Department of Labors Office of Inspector General, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigations. |
| February 27th, 2020 | On February 27, 2020, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Gary Jones, former President of United Auto Workers (UAW) International Union (located in Detroit, Mich.), was charged by information with one count of conspiracy to embezzle union funds and to use a facility of interstate commerce to aid racketeering activity, in violation of 18 U.S.C 371 and 1952(a)(3), and 29 U.S.C. 501(c). From at least 2010 and continuing through in or about September 2019, Jones embezzled and conspired to embezzle approximately $1,000,000 in union funds by submitting fraudulent vouchers to the UAW that misrepresented the destination and purpose of the expenses and by using unauthorized checks to divert funds from the UAW Midwest CAP. Jones was also charged with one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 371, for failing to report over $1,000,000 in income on IRS Form 990 returns filed by the UAW and UAW Midwest CAP and for failing to report the income on his Form 1040 tax returns filed with the IRS. The charges follow an investigation by the OLMS Detroit-Milwaukee District Office, the Department of Labors Office of Inspector General, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigations. |
| January 6th, 2020 | On January 6, 2020, in the 12th Judicial District of Jackson County, Larissa Iveson, daughter of a former Treasurer of the United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 373 (located in Litchfield, Mich.), was charged with one felony count of possession of a financial device, in violation of Michigan Compiled Law (MCL) 750.157P, and one felony count of stealing/retaining a financial transaction device without consent, in violation of MCL 750.157N. The charges follow an investigation by the OLMS Detroit-Milwaukee Office. |
| January 6th, 2020 | On January 6, 2020, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Vance Pearson, former Regional Director of United Auto Workers (UAW) Region 5 (located in St. Louis, Mo.), was charged by information with one count of conspiracy to embezzle union funds (18 U.S.C. 371 and 29 U.S.C. 501(c)) and using a facility of interstate commerce to aid a racketeering enterprise (18 U.S.C. 1952(a)(3)). In June and November 2016, Pearson submitted fraudulent vouchers to the UAW totaling over $32,000 that misrepresented the destination and purpose of the expenses. The charges follow an investigation by the OLMS Detroit-Milwaukee District Office, the Department of Labors Office of Inspector General, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigations. |
| November 6th, 2019 | On November 6, 2019, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Joseph Ashton, former United Auto Workers (UAW) International Vice President in the General Motors Department and director of the UAW-GM Center for Human Resources (CHR) from 2010 through 2014 (located in Detroit, Mich.), was charged in an information with one count of conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud (18 U.S.C. 1349) and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering (18 U.S.C. 1956(h)). Ashton knowingly joined a conspiracy whereby he and others used their positions with the UAW and CHR to personally enrich themselves by obtaining a $250,000 loan from a vendor. They then assisted the same vendor in obtaining a contract from CHR valued at over $3,900,000 and suggesting that the profits would repay the vendor what was owed on the loan. After the vendor was awarded the contract from the CHR, Ashton demanded at least $250,000 in kickbacks. The charges follow an investigation by the OLMS Detroit-Milwaukee District Office, the Department of LaborÄôs Office of Inspector General, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Internal Revenue Service Äì Criminal Investigations. |
| September 20th, 2019 | On September 20, 2019, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Jeffery Pietrzyk, former senior official in the General Motors Department of the United Auto Workers (UAW), located in Detroit, Mich., was charged in an information with one count of conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud (18 U.S.C. 1349) and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering (18 U.S.C. 1956(h)), totaling approximately $123,000. The charges follow an investigation by the OLMS Detroit-Milwaukee District Office, the Department of LaborÄôs Office of Inspector General, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Internal Revenue Service Äì Criminal Investigations. |
| August 9th, 2019 | On August 9, 2019, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Michael Grimes, former senior official in the General Motors Department of the United Auto Workers International Union (UAW), located in Detroit, Mich., was charged in an information with one count of conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud (18 U.S.C. 1349) and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering (18 U.S.C. 1956(h)), totaling over $1.5 million. The charges follow an investigation by the OLMS Detroit-Milwaukee District Office, the Department of LaborÄôs Office of Inspector General, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Internal Revenue Service Äì Criminal Investigations. |
| March 18th, 2019 | On March 18, 2019, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Norwood Jewell, former United Auto Workers (UAW) International Vice President in the UAW Chrysler Department and Director of the UAW-Chrysler National Training Center (NTC) from 2014 through 2016, was charged in an information with one count of conspiracy to violate the Labor Management Relations Act, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 371. Jewell knowingly joined a conspiracy whereby he received money and things of value from persons acting in the interest of FCA and/or approved UAW officials to use their NTC credit cards to make over $40,000 in purchases for himself, senior UAW officials, and other UAW members, which were delivered through and concealed by the NTC, from 2014 through 2016. The charges follow an investigation by the OLMS Detroit-Milwaukee District Office, the Department of LaborÄôs Office of Inspector General, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Internal Revenue Service Äì Criminal Investigations. |
| August 27th, 2018 | On August 27, 2018, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Alphons Iacobelli, former Vice President of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles US LLC (FCA), was sentenced to 66 months in prison and 24 years of supervised release. He was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $853,522 for the tax charge, a $10,000 fine, and a $100 special assessment. Restitution for the one count of conspiracy to violate the Labor Management Relations Act (LMRA) will be determined at a later date. On January 22, 2018, Iacobelli pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to violate the LMRA, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 371, for paying and delivering over $1.5 million in prohibited payments and things of value to officers and employees of the United Auto Workers. Iacobelli also pleaded guilty to one count of failing to report on his 2014 individual tax return approximately $861,927 in income, in violation of 26 U.S.C. 7206(1). The sentencing follows an investigation by the OLMS Detroit-Milwaukee District Office, the Department of LaborÄôs Office of Inspector General, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Internal Revenue Service. |
| April 6th, 2018 | On April 6, 2018, in the United States District Court, District of New Jersey (Trenton), Sergio Acosta, former President and Trustee of United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2326 (located in Edison, N.J.), pleaded guilty to a superseding information charging him with one count of theft, embezzlement and conversion to his own use, or to the use of another, money and funds of the UAW Local 2326 health and welfare fund, in violation of 18 U.S.C. Sections 664 and 2. The guilty plea follows an investigation by the OLMS New York District Office, the Department of LaborÄôs Office of Inspector General, and the Employee Benefits Security Administration. |
| April 3rd, 2018 | On April 3, 2018, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Michael Brown, a former management employee at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles US LLC (FCA) (located in Detroit, Mich.), and former Co-Director of the United Auto Workers (UAW) -Chrysler National Training Center (NTC), was charged in a fifth superseding information with one count of misprision of a felony, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 4. Brown is alleged to have had knowledge of a conspiracy between FCA executives acting in the interest and on behalf of FCA and UAW officials to provide prohibited payments and things of value to UAW officials and to have concealed such knowledge by deliberately providing misleading and incomplete testimony in the federal grand jury about the conspiracy. The charge follows an investigation by the OLMS Detroit-Milwaukee District Office, the Department of LaborÄôs Office of Inspector General, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Internal Revenue Service. |
| March 14th, 2018 | On March 14, 2018, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Nancy Adams Johnson, a former senior official in the UAW Chrysler Department of the United Auto Workers (UAW) (located in Detroit, Mich.) was charged in an indictment with one count of conspiracy to violate the Labor Management Relations Act, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 371, and four counts of receiving and accepting prohibited money and things of value from a union employer, in violation of 29 U.S.C. 186, stemming from her receipt of over $38,847 in prohibited payments and things of value from Alphons Iacobelli, former Vice President of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles US LLC (FCA), and others acting in the interest of FCA. The prohibited payments and things of value, which occurred or were received between 2010 and 2015, included personal travel, golf resort fees, lavish meals, limousine services, designer clothing, jewelry, designer shoes, golf equipment, electronics, and a shotgun for the personal benefit of Johnson and other UAW officials. The payments were made using the bank account and credit card account of the UAW-Chrysler National Training Center (NTC), which was established to provide for the education, training, and retraining of Chrysler workers. The charge follows an investigation by the OLMS Detroit-Milwaukee District Office, the Department of LaborÄôs Office of Inspector General, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Internal Revenue Service. |
| February 6th, 2018 | On February 6, 2018, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Keith Mickens, a former senior official in the Chrysler Department of the United Auto Workers (UAW) (located in Detroit, Mich.) was charged in an information with one count of conspiracy to violate the Labor Management Relations Act, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 371, stemming from his receipt of over $7,500 in prohibit payments and things of value from Alphons Iacobelli, former Vice President of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles US LLC (FCA), and others acting in the interest of FCA. The prohibited payments and things of value, which occurred or were received between 2010 and 2015, included purchases of luggage, electronics, designer clothing, and other golf equipment for the personal benefit of Mickens and other UAW officials. The payments were made using the bank account and credit card account of the UAW-Chrysler National Training Center (NTC), which was established to provide for the education, training, and retraining of Chrysler workers. The charge, which was sealed until March 13, 2018, follows an investigation by the OLMS Detroit-Milwaukee District Office, the Department of LaborÄôs Office of Inspector General, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Internal Revenue Service. |
| December 5th, 2017 | On December 5, 2017, in the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois, Anthony Edmunds, former President of United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2419 (located in Danville, Ill.), was indicted on one count of embezzling $19,482 in union funds, in violation of 29 U.S.C. 501(c). The charge follows an investigation by the OLMS Chicago District Office. |
| August 18th, 2017 | On August 18, 2017, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Virdell King, a former senior official in the Chrysler Department of the United Auto Workers (UAW) International Union (located in Detroit, Mich.) and a former Assistant Director of the UAW-Chrysler National Training Center (NTC), was charged in an information with one count of conspiracy to violate the Labor Management Relations Act, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 371, stemming from her receipt of over $40,000 in prohibited payments and things of value from Alphons Iacobelli, former Vice President of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles US LLC (FCA), and others acting in the interest of FCA. The prohibited payments and things of value, which occurred or were received between 2012 and 2015, included purchases of clothing, jewelry, luggage and other personal items, as well as golf equipment, luggage, concert tickets, theme park tickets, and other items for the personal benefit of other UAW officials. The payments were made using the bank account and credit card accounts of the NTC, which was established to provide for the education, training, and retraining of Chrysler workers. The charge follows an investigation by the OLMS Detroit-Milwaukee District Office, the Department of LaborÄôs Office of Inspector General, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Internal Revenue Service. |
| July 26th, 2017 | On July 26, 2017, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Alphons Iacobelli, former Vice President of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles US LLC (FCA), was charged with one count of conspiracy to violate the Labor Management Relations Act (LMRA) and two counts of violating the LMRA for paying and delivering over $1.2 million in prohibited payments and things of value to the late General Holiefield, former Vice President of the United Auto Workers (UAW) International Union (located in Detroit, Mich.), to HoliefieldÄôs wife, Monica Morgan, and to other UAW officials, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 371 and 29 U.S.C. 186(a)(2), (d)(1), respectively. The prohibited payments and things of value, which occurred between 2009 and 2014, included designer clothing, jewelry, furniture, and paying off the $262,219 mortgage on Holiefield and MorganÄôs residence. The payments were made using the bank account and credit card accounts of the UAW-Chrysler National Training Center (NTC), which was established to provide for the education, training, and retraining of workers. Iacobelli was also charged with an additional count of conspiracy and four counts of failing to report on his 2012-2015 individual tax returns approximately $2.1 million in NTC funds that he diverted for his own personal benefit, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 371 and 26 U.S.C. 7206(1), respectively. Iacobelli was charged with diverting those funds to pay for a Ferrari 458 Spider automobile costing more than $350,000, leasing a private jet, two limited edition Mont Blanc pens costing $37,500 each, a pool and hundreds of thousands of dollars in improvements to his residence, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in personal credit card expenses, among other purchases. The charges follow an investigation by the OLMS Detroit-Milwaukee District Office, the Department of LaborÄôs Office of Inspector General, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Internal Revenue Service. |
| July 26th, 2017 | On July 26, 2017, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Monica Morgan, wife of the late General Holiefield, a former Vice President of the United Auto Workers (UAW) International Union (located in Detroit, Mich.), was charged with one count of conspiracy to violate the Labor Management Relations Act stemming from her and HoliefieldÄôs receipt of over $1.2 million in prohibited payments and things of value from Alphons Iacobelli, former Vice President of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles US LLC (FCA), and others acting in the interest of FCA, and from the use of three companies controlled by Morgan to conceal the prohibited payments and things of value, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 371. The prohibited payments and things of value, which occurred between 2009 and 2014, included designer clothing, jewelry, furniture, and paying off the $262,219 mortgage on Holiefield and MorganÄôs residence. The payments were made using the bank account and credit card accounts of the UAW-Chrysler National Training Center, which was established to provide for the education, training, and retraining of workers. Morgan was also charged with three counts of failing to report the income she received through those companies on her 2011-2013 individual tax returns and with one count of failing to file an income tax return for 2014, in violation of 26 U.S.C. 7206(1) and 7203, respectively. The charges follow an investigation by the OLMS Detroit-Milwaukee District Office, the Department of LaborÄôs Office of Inspector General, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Internal Revenue Service. |
| January 9th, 2017 | On January 9, 2017, in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, Sergio Acosta, President/Employee of United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2326 and Lawrence Ackerman, a health insurance broker, were each charged with one count of conspiring to defraud Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of $5.5 million and one count of conspiring to defraud the Local 2326 self-insured plan of $1 million, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1347 and 1349, respectively. The charges follow an investigation by the OLMS New York District Office, the Department of LaborÄôs Office of Inspector General, and the Office of Employee Benefits Security Administration. |
| November 17th, 2016 | On November 17, 2016, in the Rush County, Indiana Circuit/Superior Court, David P. Maddy, former Financial Secretary Treasurer of United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2339 (located in Rushville, Ind.), was charged in a one-count information for felony theft of union funds in the amount of $37,197, in violation of Indiana Code 35-43-4-2(a). The charge follows an investigation by the OLMS Cincinnati-Cleveland District Office. |
| August 17th, 2016 | On August 17, 2016, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, Michael R. Bennett, former President of United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2317 (located in Lafayette, Ind.), was charged in a six-count indictment with three counts of wire fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1343, and three counts of embezzling union funds totaling approximately $4,500, in violation of 29 U.S.C. 501(c). The charges follow an investigation by the OLMS Chicago District Office. |
| March 22nd, 2016 | On March 22, 2016, in the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois, Bob Buford, former President of United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2419 (located in Danville, Ill.), was indicted on one count of mail fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1341, for concealing his embezzlement of approximately $28,697 from the unionÕs savings account during 2010. In addition, Buford was indicted on one count of filing a false report, in violation of 29 U.S.C. 439(b), with respect to the filing of the unionÕs LM-3 report for fiscal year ending December 31, 2010. The charges follow an investigation by the OLMS Chicago District Office. |
| March 22nd, 2016 | On March 22, 2016, in the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois, Bob Buford, former President of United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2419 (located in Danville, Ill.), was indicted on one count of mail fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1341, for concealing his embezzlement of approximately $28,697 from the unionÄôs savings account during 2010. In addition, Buford was indicted on one count of filing a false report, in violation of 29 U.S.C. 439(b), with respect to the filing of the unionÄôs LM-3 report for fiscal year ending December 31, 2010. The charges follow an investigation by the OLMS Chicago District Office. |
| September 2nd, 2015 | On September 2, 2015, in the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, Danny L. Rawls, former member of United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2297 (located in Shreveport, La.), pled guilty to one charge of making a false statement to an OLMS investigator, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1001. The charge follows an investigation by the OLMS Dallas-New Orleans District Office. |
| March 4th, 2015 | On March 4, 2015, in the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, Shreveport Division, Gregory J. Hill, Jr., former Vice President of United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2297 (formerly located in Shreveport, La.), was charged in a nine-count indictment. Hill was charged with one count of aiding and abetting an embezzlement of over $12,000 in union funds, in violation of 29 U.S.C. 501(c) and 18 U.S.C. 2; one count of conspiracy to forge securities and embezzle money from a labor organization, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 371; and seven counts of uttering forged checks, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 513(a). The indictment follows an investigation by the OLMS Dallas-New Orleans District Office. |
| March 4th, 2015 | On March 4, 2015, in the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana Shreveport Division, Danny L. Rawls, former member of United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2297 (formerly located in Shreveport, La.), was charged in a nine-count indictment. Rawls was charged with one count of aiding and abetting an embezzlement of over $12,000 in union funds, in violation of 29 U.S.C. 501(c) and 18 U.S.C. 2; three counts of uttering forged checks in violation of 18 U.S.C. 513(a); and one count of conspiracy to forge securities and embezzle money from a labor organization, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 371. The indictment follows an investigation by the OLMS Dallas-New Orleans District Office. |
| April 28th, 2014 | On April 28, 2014, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Udean Forbes-Payton, former Financial Secretary of United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2500 (located in Detroit, Mich.), was charged with embezzling $5,562 in union funds between December 2006 and May 2011, in violation of 29 U.S.C. 501(c), and falsifying union records, in violation of 29 U.S.C. 439(c). The charges follow an investigation by the OLMS Detroit-Milwaukee District Office and the Department of Labor’s Office of Inspector General. |
| December 3rd, 2013 | On December 3, 2013, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Eastern Division, an information was filed charging Kristie McClarren, former Financial Secretary-Treasurer of United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 3061 (located in Crestline, Ohio), with one count of embezzling $152,639, in violation of 29 U.S.C. 501(c). The charge follows a joint investigation by the OLMS Cincinnati-Cleveland District Office and DOL’s Office of Inspector General. |
| April 9th, 2013 | On April 9, 2013, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Western Division, Patricia Race, former President of United Auto Workers Local 959 (located in Fremont, Ohio), was sentenced to six months probation and was ordered to pay a $250 fine. On November 21, 2012, an information was filed charging Race with one count of filing a false LM-3 report. The sentencing follows an investigation by the OLMS Cleveland District Office. |
| January 7th, 2013 | On January 7, 2013, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, Connie Sayne, former Financial Secretary of United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 3050 (located in Hagerstown, Ind.), was charged in a one-count information with embezzlement of union funds in the amount of $25,699.53, in violation of 29 U.S.C. 501(c). The charge follows an investigation by the OLMS Cincinnati District Office. |
| November 21st, 2012 | On November 21, 2012, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Western Division, Patricia Race, former President of United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 959 (located in Fremont, Ohio), was charged in a one-count indictment with knowingly failing to disclose a material fact in the union’s annual financial report Form LM-3, in violation of 29 U.S.C. 439(b). The charge follows an investigation by the OLMS Cleveland District Office. |
| October 3rd, 2012 | On October 3, 2012, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Joya Mills, former Financial Secretary of United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2500 (located in Detroit, Mich.), pled guilty to one count of failure to maintain union records, in violation of 29 U.S.C. 439(a). On September 20, 2011, Mills was charged with the same offense. The plea follows an investigation by the OLMS Detroit District Office. |
| August 14th, 2012 | On August 14, 2012, in the Berrien County, Michigan Circuit Court, a criminal complaint was filed charging Linda Caldwell, former Financial Secretary of United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 383 (located in Benton Harbor, Mich.), with one count of embezzlement from a non-profit organization of $200 or more but less than $1,000. The charge follows an investigation by the OLMS Detroit District Office. |
| June 27th, 2012 | On June 27, 2012, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Dennis Clayton, former Financial Secretary of United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 708 (located in Durand, Mich.), was charged in a one-count information with making false entries in union records by preparing and submitting false lost time vouchers resulting in him receiving $1,186.80 to which he was not entitled, in violation of 29 U.S.C. 439(c). The charge follows an investigation by the OLMS Detroit District Office. |
| June 27th, 2012 | On June 27, 2012, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Linda Purdy, former President of United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 708 (located in Durand, Mich.), was charged in a one-count information with making false entries in union records by preparing and submitting false lost time vouchers resulting in her receiving $2,787.40 to which she was not entitled, in violation of 29 U.S.C. Section 439(c). The charge follows an investigation by the OLMS Detroit District Office. |
| April 17th, 2012 | On April 17, 2012, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, Thomas Coffey, former President of United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 912 (located in Lexington, Ky.), was charged in a one-count information for making false entries in the union records during the years 2005 through 2008, in violation of 29 U.S.C. 439(c). The charge follows an investigation by the OLMS Cincinnati District Office. |
| January 25th, 2011 | On January 25, 2011, in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, James Q. Hunter, former Treasurer of United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 1542 (located in Newark, Del.), was charged in a one-count information with making a false entry in union records, in violation of 29 U.S.C. Section 439(c). The charge follows an investigation by the OLMS Philadelphia District Office. |
| July 28th, 2010 | On July 28, 2010, in the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan, Robbin R. Wolff, former bookkeeper of United Autoworkers (UAW) Local 383 (located in Benton Harbor, Mich.), pled guilty to one count of embezzling union funds in the amount of $200,397.63 and to one count of falsifying union records. On July 23, 2010, Wolff was charged in an information with the same offenses. The plea follows an investigation by the OLMS Detroit District Office. |
| September 4th, 2009 | On September 4, 2009, in the Huron County (Mich.) District Court, a felony complaint was filed charging Christine Pawlowski, former Financial Secretary of Auto Workers Local 812 (located in Harbor Beach, Mich.), with one count of embezzlement of $1,000 or more but less than $20,000. The charge follows an investigation by the OLMS Detroit District Office. |
| May 5th, 2009 | On May 5, 2009, in the Criminal Court for Putnam County, Tennessee, Ronnie L. Scott, former Financial Secretary of Auto Workers Local 2409 (located in Cookeville, Tenn.), pled guilty to the charge of Theft Over $1,000. Subsequently, Scott was sentenced to two years of unsupervised probation. The plea and sentencing follows an investigation by the OLMS Nashville Office. |
| May 22nd, 2006 | On May 22, 2006, in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, Georgia McNish, former Financial Secretary for United Auto Workers Local 1853, was sentenced to two years probation, assessed a fine of $5,000 and a special assessment of $25, and was ordered to complete 50 hours of community service. McNish previously made restitution of $10,000 to the local. On November 29, 2005, McNish was charged with knowingly making a false statement in a labor organization annual report in order to conceal her embezzlement of $10,000 in local union funds. The sentencing follows an investigation by the OLMS Nashville District Office. |
| November 29th, 2005 | On November 29, 2005, in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, a one-count information was filed against Georgia K. McNish, former Financial Secretary for United Auto Workers Local Union 1853, charging her with knowingly making a false statement in a labor organization annual report in order to conceal her embezzlement of $10,000 in local union funds. The information follows an investigation by the OLMS Nashville District Office. |
| September 1st, 2004 | On September 1, 2004, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Michael G. Kmit, former secretary-treasurer of Auto Workers Local 2562, entered a plea change to guilty to the charge of embezzlement. Kmit was indicted on June 23, 2004, on one count of embezzling $10,953.10 in union funds. The guilty plea follows an investigation by the OLMS Cleveland District Office. |
| July 21st, 2004 | On July 21, 2004, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, Sandra Linder, former financial secretary of Auto Workers Local 1317, entered a plea agreement in which she agreed to plead guilty to one count of embezzling more than $10,000 in union funds. On May 26, 2004, Linder was charged with embezzlement following an investigation by the OLMS Chicago District Office. |
| June 23rd, 2004 | On June 23, 2004, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Michael G. Kmit, former financial secretary of United Autoworkers Local 2562, was charged with embezzling $10,953.50 in union funds. The charges follow an investigation by the OLMS Cleveland District Office. |
| May 21st, 2004 | On May 21, 2004, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, Jerome M. Smith, former financial secretary of Auto Workers Local 933, pled guilty to a one count information charging him with embezzling $30,000 in union funds. On the same date, Smith was sentenced to six months home detention, three years probation, and 100 hours of community service. He was also ordered to make full restitution to the union. The guilty plea and sentencing follow an investigation by the OLMS Cincinnati District Office. |
| April 21st, 2004 | On April 21, 2004, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Jose Delgadillo, former financial secretary-treasurer of Auto Workers Local 1066, pled guilty to a one-count superceding information charging him with stealing $12,585 in union funds. Delgadillo was previously indicted on January 29, 2004, on one count of stealing and one count of making false entries. The charges follow an investigation by the OLMS Chicago District Office. |
| February 18th, 2004 | On February 18, 2004, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, an information was filed against Jerome M. Smith, former financial-secretary of United Auto Workers Local 933, charging him with embezzling $30,000 in union funds. The charge follows an investigation by the OLMS Cincinnati District Office. |
| August 5th, 2003 | On August 5, 2003, in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, David Westgate, former President of United Auto Workers Local 168, was indicted on 68 counts of embezzling $31,867 in union funds. The charges were brought following an investigation by the OLMS Boston District Office. |
| November 25th, 2002 | On November 25, 2002 in Marion County (Indiana) Superior Court, James Johnson, former president of Auto Workers Local 36, was sentenced to 365 days in jail with 363 days suspended, and ordered to pay $132 in court costs and $1,000 in fines after pleading guilty to theft and making restitution of $4,167.76. He had pled guilty on November 25, 2002 after being charged on April 17, 2002 in an information filed following an investigation by the OLMS Cincinnati District Office. |
| November 25th, 2002 | On November 25, 2002, in Marion County (Indiana) Superior Court, James M. Johnson, former president of Auto Workers Local 361, pled guilty to one count of theft of union funds. An information was filed on April 17, 2002, charging Johnson with one count of theft of $4,167.76 following an investigation by the OLMS Cincinnati District Office. |
| October 10th, 2002 | On October 10, 2002, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, Kim M. Connor, former financial secretary of United Auto Workers Local 469, pled guilty to an information filed on September 17, 2002 that charged her with one count of embezzling $3,365 in union funds and one count of filing a false LM-2 report. The information also noted that she had embezzled a total of approximately $54,317.19 in union funds. The charges were brought following an investigation by the OLMS Milwaukee District Office. |
| October 3rd, 2002 | On October 3, 2002, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Isador Hampton, former president of Auto Workers (UAW) Local 835, pled guilty to one count of embezzling $10,389.00 in union funds. Hampton admitted he accepted unauthorized salary and expense payments from the union. The charge was brought following an investigation by the OLMS Detroit District Office. |
| September 17th, 2002 | On September 17, 2002, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, Kim M. Connor, former financial secretary of United Auto Workers Local 469, was charged with one count of embezzling $3,365 in union funds and one count of filing a false LM-2 report. The information also noted that she had embezzled a total of approximately $54,317.19 in union funds. The charges were brought following an investigation by the OLMS Milwaukee District Office. |
| September 13th, 2002 | On September 13, 2002, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Martin J. Mone, former financial secretary of Auto Workers Local 1052, pled guilty to embezzling $6,264.97 in union funds. The charges were brought following an investigation by the OLMS Cleveland District Office. |
| August 27th, 2002 | On August 27, 2002, in the Superior Court of Wayne County, Indiana, Priscilla Crist, former president of United Auto Workers Local 2374, pled guilty to the embezzlement of $4,092 in union funds. She was sentenced to one year in jail with all but ten days suspended, one year of probation, and ordered to pay court costs and complete full restitution to the union. The charges were brought following an investigation by the OLMS Cincinnati District Office. |
| July 24th, 2002 | On July 24, 2002, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Martin Mone, former financial secretary of Auto Workers Local 1052, was indicted on charges of embezzling $6,264.97 in union funds and falsifying union records. The charges were brought following an investigation by the OLMS Cleveland District Office. |
| April 17th, 2002 | On April 17, 2002, in Marion County (Indiana) state court, James M. Johnson, former president of Auto Workers Local 361, was charged in a one-count information with theft for embezzling approximately $4,150 in union funds. The charges were brought following an investigation by the OLMS Cincinnati District Office. |
| March 29th, 2002 | On March 29, 2002, in Cuyahoga County (Ohio) court, Rollie McHugh, former financial secretary of Auto Workers Local 2358, was indicted on one count of theft, two counts of forgery, two counts of uttering, and two counts of tampering with records for embezzling between $500 and $5,000. The charges were brought following an investigation by the OLMS Cleveland District Office. |
| December 17th, 2001 | On December 17, 2001, in Wayne County (Indiana) Superior Court, Priscilla Crist, former president of Auto Workers Local 2374, was indicted for forgery and theft of $4,092. The charges were brought following an investigation by the OLMS Cincinnati District Office. |
| December 7th, 2001 | On December 7, 2001, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, a criminal complaint was signed charging Isador Hampton and Willie Lyons, former president and financial secretary, respectively, of Auto Workers Local 825, with embezzling union funds. The charges were brought following an investigation by the OLMS Detroit District Office. |
| December 3rd, 2001 | On December 3, 2001, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa, Terrance P. Baldridge, former secretary-treasurer of Auto Workers Local 1349, pled guilty to embezzling union funds. The plea agreement stipulates to a loss amount of $5,307. The charges had been brought on October 5, 2001, following an investigation by the OLMS St. Louis District Office. |
| November 29th, 2001 | On November 29, 2001, in Edgar County (Illinois) court, Judith Elaine Cline, former secretary-treasurer of Auto Workers Local 2343, pled guilty to a one-count information charging her with misdemeanor theft of $300. She was sentenced to 12 months of supervised release and ordered to make restitution of $900 to the union. The charges were brought following an investigation by the OLMS Chicago District Office. |
| October 5th, 2001 | On October 5, 2001, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa, Terrance P. Baldridge, former secretary-treasurer of United Auto Workers Local 1349, was charged in a one-count indictment with embezzling $1,150 in union funds. The charges were brought following an investigation by the OLMS St. Louis District Office. |