Robert Snell and Breana Noble write for The Detroit News with an update on the UAW leadership corruption scandal:
United Auto Workers officials are interfering with a government watchdog tasked with rooting out corruption in one of the nation’s most influential and troubled unions, according to a report Tuesday that portrayed a rocky start to the union’s rehabilitation.
The allegations surfaced in a 35-page status report by the government watchdog, UAW Monitor Neil Barofsky, who was installed as part of a sweeping consent decree that settled criminal allegations against the UAW stemming from a landmark corruption scandal.
The report provided an intimate view of frustrated attempts by the federal watchdog to reform the UAW. Union leaders have withheld information, failed to disclose that an active high-ranking officer was being investigated for mishandling money and concealed a union-led investigation into wrongdoing, an act that appears to violate the union’s agreement with prosecutors, Barofsky wrote.