{"id":158595,"date":"2021-01-22T08:50:50","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T13:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=158595"},"modified":"2021-01-22T09:20:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T14:20:50","slug":"u-s-attorney-who-led-uaw-probe-submits-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2021\/01\/u-s-attorney-who-led-uaw-probe-submits-resignation\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Attorney Who Led UAW Probe Submits Resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider, a Trump appointee, resigned, which is effective Feb. 1.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In keeping with American political tradition, Matthew Schneider, the U.S. Attorney who oversaw the federal corruption investigation of the United Auto Workers, has resigned.<\/p>\n

Schneider, who was appointed to serve as the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan by President Donald Trump, submitted his resignation Jan. 21, President Joe Biden\u2019s first day in office. Schneider\u2019s resignation is effective Feb. 1.<\/p>\n

U.S. Attorneys serve at the pleasure of the President and customarily resign or are asked to resign when a new administration takes office.<\/p>\n

(UAW strikes deal with Feds to remain independent.)<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Schneider, a Republican who previously worked for GOP officeholders in Michigan, avoided making the prosecution of the of corrupt officials from the UAW overtly political.\u00a0The UAW has long supported Democrats, including Gretchen Whitmer, who handily defeated Schneider\u2019s former boss, former Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette, in the race for Michigan\u2019s governorship in 2018.<\/p>\n

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UAW Rory Gamble, left, worked with Schneider on union reforms. The two got along so well that Gamble called him “my brother” during a press conference.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

However, he left the investigation of the UAW in the hands of career prosecutors from the Department of Justice\u2019s Public Corruption unit, the FBI and the U.S. Department of Labor, which had been fielding complaints about illegal conduct inside the union for years.<\/p>\n

In fact, court records indicate that the U.S. Department of Justice actually began a broader investigation of the union during the administration of President Barack Obama, who was a friend of then UAW President Dennis Williams, who claimed he could get Obama on the phone if needed.<\/p>\n

The investigation of the UAW, though, was so thorough and so complete several corrupt union officials offered testimony against their colleagues under prodding by government attorneys.<\/p>\n

In all, more than a dozen UAW officers and officials, among them two former UAW presidents, Williams and Gary Jones, pleaded guilty to various criminal charges without testing the government\u2019s case in a preliminary hearing or a trial.\u00a0The sentencing of Jones and Williams have been postponed due to the general concerns about the spread of COVID-19 in federal prisons.<\/p>\n

(UAW, Justice Department working on possible changes at union.)<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Even after Biden\u2019s election in November, the UAW executive board agreed to a settlement with the DOJ.<\/p>\n

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The U.S. Attorney’s office in Detroit worked in concert with the FBI, the IRS and other government agencies in the investigation of the UAW.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The settlement does not include the one-man-one vote of the election of top UAW officers Schneider advocated.<\/p>\n

But the UAW\u2019s settlement with the DOJ does include provisions establishing a referendum on rewriting the union\u2019s constitution to allow for direct election of key officers. It also requires the UAW executive board to recruit an independent monitor to ensure the organization\u2019s internal elections are fair and expenditures are not diverted to enrich union officers.<\/p>\n

One piece of unfinished business, however, involves the role of the late Sergio Marchionne and Fiat Chrysler in the scandal. The FCA issue is still unresolved, Schneider said during a press conference last month.<\/p>\n

After leaving his role as U.S. Attorney, Schneider will join a private law firm based in Detroit, the DOJ announcement said.<\/p>\n

(UAW President, U.S. Attorney to meet and discuss union reforms.)<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Upon Schneider\u2019s departure, Saima Moshin will serve as acting as acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District. Mohsin will be the first \u201cwoman, immigrant Muslim\u201d in American history to serve in the role of U.S., according to the U.S. Attorney’s office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matthew Schneider, the U.S. Attorney who oversaw the federal corruption investigation of the United Auto Workers, has resigned. He was a Trump administration appointee and as is tradition, with a new administration comes a new appointee for the post. Get details at TheDetroitBureau.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20009,"featured_media":157087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,5,13],"tags":[],"make":[51,56,58],"post-state":[],"category_old":[118,150,151,123,133,131,191,248,243,132,129,284,125,124,297,148,128,288,304,141],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158595"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=158595"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=158595"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=158595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}