{"id":500823,"date":"2021-05-12T15:20:50","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T19:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=500823"},"modified":"2021-05-12T15:20:52","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T19:20:52","slug":"biden-labor-ally-headed-to-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-labor-ally-headed-to-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Labor Ally Headed to Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-labor-ally-headed-to-prison%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=500823&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"26.806282722513\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/\">Biden Administration<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Ex-UAW president sentenced to 21 months for corruption<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"485\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-467488638-e1620841163500-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tUAW President Dennis Williams \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/graham-piro\/\" title=\"Posts by Graham Piro\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Graham Piro<\/a> \u2022 May 12, 2021 3:10 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"81.981595092025\">\n<p>The former president of one of President Joe Biden&#8217;s closest union allies is heading to jail in connection to a multimillion-dollar corruption scheme.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis Williams, who served as the president of the international United Auto Workers union for four years, was sentenced to 21 months in prison, the U.S. attorney&#8217;s office for the Eastern District of Michigan&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-edmi\/pr\/former-international-uaw-president-dennis-williams-sentenced-prison-embezzling-union\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-edmi\/pr\/former-international-uaw-president-dennis-williams-sentenced-prison-embezzling-union&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1620921214605000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFpIAdiSHD3zmhmBcZSTSule_Ob2w\">announced<\/a>&nbsp;Tuesday. Williams was convicted of conspiring with at least six other union officials to embezzle funds from union members. A federal corruption probe found that Williams had also used union funds to pay for his personal expenses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Instead of serving the interests of the hard-working men and women of the UAW, Dennis Williams conspired with senior UAW officials to embezzle over $1 million in union funds,&#8221; one of the investigators said in a press release. &#8220;We will continue to work with our law enforcement partners to investigate corrupt union officials who betray the union members they are entrusted to represent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The UAW pumped nearly $6 million into supporting Democratic causes in 2020. Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/biden-meets-with-leadership-of-union-under-fire-for-corruption\/\">met with<\/a> the leadership of the union shortly after he won the 2020 election, while the union was under federal investigation. Biden pledged to be in &#8220;lockstep&#8221; on labor issues with the union during the meeting. The Biden administration did not respond to a request for comment on the sentencing.<\/p>\n<p>Williams&#8217;s sentencing comes after former UAW vice president Joe Ashton was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-edmi\/pr\/former-uaw-vice-president-sentenced-30-months-taking-250000-bribes-and-kickbacks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-edmi\/pr\/former-uaw-vice-president-sentenced-30-months-taking-250000-bribes-and-kickbacks&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1620921214605000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH-jW1b8LZSYwYwBmHZo33sG2HW5w\">sentenced<\/a> in November 2020 to 30 months in prison for taking bribes. The wide-ranging federal investigation has ensnared two former UAW presidents and 14 total union officials implicated in embezzlement schemes, bribery, and corruption.<\/p>\n<p>In December, the union <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/pro-biden-union-pays-1-5-million-to-settle-corruption-probe\/\">agreed<\/a> to pay $1.5 million to resolve the five-year investigation. It also agreed to six years of an independent monitor and pledged to make significant reforms. The current UAW president, Rory Gamble, was not under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The union has had a problem with fraud, embezzlement and corruption,&#8221; U.S. attorney Matthew Schneider said at the time of the settlement. &#8220;There are a few bad apples and those people have been convicted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The UAW said it is working to restore the faith of its members in&nbsp;a statement provided to the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Former UAW Member and President Dennis Williams has rightfully been sentenced today for his crimes that put his personal and self-interest above that of our members and this Union,&#8221; a spokesman said.&nbsp;&#8220;These serious crimes violated the oath of UAW officers and they violated the trust of UAW officers to handle our members\u2019 sacred dues money.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden Administration Ex-UAW president sentenced to 21 months for corruption  UAW President Dennis Williams \/ Getty Images  Graham Piro \u2022 May 12, 2021 3:10 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1888331,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1888331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}