Federal prosecutors Monday portrayed former United Auto Workers President Dennis Williams as an imperious, hypocritical thief who should spend two years in prison for helping embezzle hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on luxuries, including private villas, cigars, booze and more.
The reverberations of these actions will last years, if not decades,” Assistant U.S. Attorneys Steven Cares and David Gardey wrote in a sentencing memo. “Williams has cast a stain on the UAW. He undermined the trust that the UAW had built up — with its members, with union workers, and even with the general public. Current and future UAW members will carry this burden for years to come — a burden that Dennis Williams has laid at their feet.”