UAW President’s Regional Successor Charged for Embezzlement
- Arrest made in midst of high-stakes contract talks with GM
- Feds say over $100,000 spent on golf gear, $60,000 on cigars
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Federal agents arrested a senior United Auto Workers official closely tied to the union’s president and charged him with embezzlement, intensifying a years-long corruption scandal that has clouded labor talks with U.S. automakers.
Vance Pearson, who serves on the UAW’s international executive board and succeeded President Gary Jones as head of the union’s largest geographical region, faces charges including conspiracy, money laundering, filing false reports, and mail and wire fraud, according to a criminal complaint filed Thursday.