Former UAW President Admits Guilt in Massive Embezzlement, Racketeering and Tax Evasion Scheme

Then-United Auto Workers President Gary Jones speaks at the opening of the 2019 GM-UAW contract talks in Detroit, Michigan on July 16, 2019. Bill Pugliano/Getty Images

Former United Auto Workers (UAW) President Gary Jones confessed to conspiring with other top officials of the storied labor organization to embezzle more than $1 million in member dues in an attempt to further racketeering and tax evasion activities, according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

Jones, 63, “pled guilty to one count of conspiring to embezzle UAW dues money and conspiring to use a facility of interstate commerce to aid racketeering crimes between 2010 and September 2019,” DOJ announced June 3.