Ex-UAW president pleads guilty to racketeering, embezzlement as part of probe into union corruption
Jones faces up to five years in prison and up to $250,000 in fines. Imprisonment guidelines under the plea deal are between 46 months and 57 months. Those guidelines may be lowered based on Jones' degree of cooperation, Gardey said.
UAW President Rory Gamble, in a statement, said his predecessor's actions were "selfish, immoral, and against everything we stand for as a union." Court documents and Jones' cooperation suggest more union officials could be charged as federal prosecutors identified four other unnamed co-conspirators in the scheme. Jones' predecessor, Dennis Williams,Homes of Jones, Williams and other union officialsOther high-ranking officials to be convicted as part of the investigation include UAW Vice Presidents Norwood Jewell and Joe Ashton, a formerJones resigned from leading the 400,000-member union effective Nov. 20 — the same day the UAW International Executive Board started the process of removing him from office. FBI agents finish loading materials into a truck out of the home of United Auto Workers President Gary Jones on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019.Jones began a leave of absence from the union starting Nov. 3, days after he was implicated as being part of the ongoing probe. When the federal investigation was made public in July 2017, it focused on a jointly operated training center between the UAW and Fiat Chrysler. But it quickly expanded to probes into similar operations with GM andThe probe has widened to unaffiliated with the training centers being involved in embezzlement of union funds, money laundering and other illegal activities., federal prosecutors last month informed GM that it is not currently a target in a investigation.
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