Federal prosecutors asked a judge on Wednesday to appoint a veteran lawyer and former prosecutor to hear allegations of misconduct against United Auto Workers officials.
The U.S. government is proposing Gil Soffer, a partner at Chicago law firm Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, as the union’s adjudications officer. The Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission previously appointed Soffer in 2017 as the global corporate compliance monitor for Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd. in one of the largest settlements ever under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.