THAT was a required WORK trip BUCKO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i could of found a million other places to go then there. hell a day with boar woulda been more fun!!!!!! 
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In December 2014, United Automobile Workers vice president General Holiefield accidentally fired the gun he was cleaning on his kitchen table, hitting his wife, Monica Morgan, in the abdomen. If you think that’s bad, wait until you hear about the gut-shot the couple allegedly dealt to Holiefield’s union members.
An indictment unsealed last week claims the labor chief, who died of cancer in 2015, secretly teamed up with his bargaining-table opponent at Fiat Chrysler, Alphons Iacobelli. The feds say they and other conspirators skimmed millions from the UAW National Training Center, a tax-exempt, Fiat Chrysler-funded entity that was supposed to help union automotive workers get job training.
The indictment claims Mr. Iacobelli availed himself of National Training Center money, buying limited edition gold Montblanc pens and a $350,000 Ferrari. He also allegedly installed a swimming pool, outdoor kitchen and spa at his Michigan home, renovations that cost $375,000, and paid off a relative’s student loans.
The indictment says the training center also spent $425,000 at a swag company owned by Holiefield’s wife, Ms. Morgan, while an additional $70,000 was funneled from the fund to the union boss’s nonprofit to his wife’s photography business. More training center cash paid for Ms. Morgan’s first-class plane tickets, her $12,400 four-night stay at the luxe Beverly Hills Hotel, and the $262,000 mortgage on the townhouse she and Holiefield owned, the indictment says. Happy wife, happy life, we guess.
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That’s in addition to the $924,000 Holiefield received in legal union compensation between 2009 and 2014, purportedly for representing the interests of UAW members. He and Mr. Iacobelli were responsible for negotiating contracts between Fiat Chrysler and the union over pay, bonuses and working conditions.
Detroit’s FBI chief said last week that the indictment “calls into question the integrity of contracts negotiated during the course of this criminal conspiracy,” which the feds say ran for six and a half years. Jerome Durden, a Fiat Chrysler accountant who allegedly cooked the books, put it more bluntly, according to the indictment: This corrupt spending was intended to keep Holiefield and other senior UAW officials “fat, dumb and happy,” he said.
Mr. Iacobelli and Ms. Morgan have pleaded not guilty, while Mr. Durden will be arraigned Friday.
“The UAW has zero tolerance for corruption or wrongdoing of this kind at any level,” union President Dennis Williams said of the scandal, adding that it is cooperating with investigators. Yet the UAW has quite the rap sheet. Since 2001 at least 47 of its members, including officials at several locals, have pleaded guilty to corruption and embezzlement charges.
There are also eyebrow-raising expenditures that are legal. For instance, the union, which has nearly a billion in total assets, owns a lakeside retreat and golf course in Michigan, valued at more than $34 million last year, which includes an indoor pool, two basketball courts, a sauna, beaches and hiking trails. The luxury property was “designed for the upper echelon of the UAW,” one retiree told these pages in 2009. Six-figure salaries are the norm for top brass. And the union’s last financial disclosure includes expenditures at Sea World Orlando, as well as several casinos, bowling alleys and golf courses.
The union’s high-paid officials are no doubt cringing over the timing of the indictment’s release. Employees at Nissan ’s Mississippi plant are voting this week on whether to join the UAW. Those automotive workers would do well to ask if this is the kind of outfit they want to hand a chunk of their wages to.
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http://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/chrysler/2017/07/26/former-fca-official-wife-uaw-vp-indicted/104018818/
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