Fiat Chrysler's Former VP for Employee Relations Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy- Pay Off UAW Officials

[nitpicker]

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edmi/pr/fiat-chryslers-former-vice-president-employee-relations-pleads-guilty-conspiracy-pay

Department of Justice
U.S. Attorney’s Office
Eastern District of Michigan

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, January 22, 2018

Vice President for Employee Relations Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Pay Off Senior UAW Officials

The former Vice President for Employee Relations at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles LLC (“FCA” or “Fiat Chrysler”) who served as the lead negotiator for, and administer of, the collective bargaining agreements between FCA and the UAW, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to commit violations of the Labor Management Relations Act, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider.
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Alphons Iacobelli, 58, of Rochester Hills, Michigan, pled guilty before United States District Judge Paul D. Borman. Iacobelli admitted that he conspired with FCA, with other FCA executives and employees, and with senior UAW officials to illegally deliver over $1.5 million in prohibited payments and things of value to senior UAW officials. Iacobelli was involved in the conspiracy from 2009 through June 2015. The senior UAW officials included UAW Vice President General Holiefield, UAW Assistant Director Virdell King and others.

Iacobelli also admitted that when he conspired to make to these illegal payments to senior UAW officials, he did so while acting in the interest of his employer, FCA - - in an effort to obtain benefits, concessions, and advantages for FCA in the negotiation, implementation, and administration of the collective bargaining agreements between FCA and the UAW. The illegal payments included paying off the mortgage on Holiefield’s home, first-class airline travel, designer clothing, furniture, jewelry and custom-made watches.

In August 2014, Iacobelli authorized the expenditure of more than $30,000 for a party for a different senior UAW official held at the FCA-UAW World Class Manufacturing Academy in Warren, Michigan. The expenditure included charges for “ultra-premium” liquor, more than $7,000 worth of cigars, and more than $3,000 worth of wine with custom labels in honor of that UAW official.

Besides pleading guilty to conspiracy to violate the Labor Management Relations Act, Iacobelli also pled guilty to subscribing a false tax return based on his failure to report hundreds of thousands of dollars in income that he illegally diverted from the UAW-Chrysler National Training Center.
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[safeinOhio]

1. Thank you for exposing

White Collar crime. I look forward to your post.

[llmart]

2. Lock him up!

My God, these criminals have no scruples or morals whatsoever. Who the f*** made him VP of Employee Relations?