All one has to do is follow the "fashion show selfies" or the political aspirations of those who have expressed desire to become the successor of the currently vacant 13th Congressional District seat, and you will find the network of the "Fat, Dumb & Happy." ~ not my words, but the words of federal prosecutors.
I like the term "Ghetto-fab", better.
There is more to this investigation than just being ghetto-fab, there was child welfare fraud...
... and there is also money laundering through the Michigan Democratic Party.
Were DNC, MDP & UAW Manipulating Elections?
All you have to do is show up for the leadership meetings...before they kick you off the political committees and go dark on all future meetings...and parties.
Yes, I said that because that is what they do.
That is how they identify and make their chosen political candidates" Fat, Dumb & Happy" who are easily distracted with "pretty shiny" elections, caring nothing about the people they are supposed to represent.
Some candidates are groomed for elected positions to implement privatization policies and laws.
Some candidates are just propped up to launder money through their fake campaigns.
Some candidates are just "Fat, Dumb & Happy" and have no clue as to what the Emoluments Clause means to them.
Stay tuned.
Feds: UAW official blew $6,900 at steakhouse with FCA workers' money
Feds charge ex-UAW official in widening scandal
Detroit – A high-ranking former United Auto Workers official spent thousands of dollars in worker training funds on $1,100 designer shoes, first-class flights to California, resorts and limousines, according to federal prosecutors.
The former UAW official, Nancy Adams Johnson, 57, of Macomb Township, was charged in an indictment unsealed Wednesday and is the sixth person charged in a widening scandal that takes aim at the luxury lifestyle of UAW officials who traveled excessively and used training center credit cards to buy luxury items with money meant for blue-collar workers, according to prosecutors.
Johnson traveled, golfed, dined and shopped by using training center funds provided by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV under a policy created by the auto company’s officials to keep UAW leaders “fat, dumb and happy,” according to the government. The policy was designed to wring concessions favoring the automaker, according to the government.
Johnson served as the top administrative assistant for former UAW Vice President Norwood Jewell. She was charged in a five-count indictment that also raises questions about the sanctity of labor contracts negotiated between the UAW and Fiat Chrysler.
Adams Johnson was charged seven months after The Detroit News first linked her and Jewell to the corruption investigation. Sources described Adams Johnson as one of the more egregious abusers of the training center’s credit cards, saying she charged more than $75,000 from 2014 to 2016 for personal items, including $1,000 Christian Louboutin shoes, clothes, jewelry, luggage, meals and more.
She was charged with conspiracy to violate the Labor Management Relations Act and four counts of receiving and accepting prohibited money and things of value from a union employer. Both are five-year felonies.
Adams Johnson also was linked to a $2,180 shotgun purchased with training center funds for Jewell as a birthday present in 2015. She told former UAW official Virdell King to buy the shotgun with her training center credit card, sources told The News.
After The News reported about the shotgun and the widening investigation, the UAW announced in November that Jewell would retire Jan. 1, roughly six months before the scheduled end of his current term. Jewell has not been charged with a crime during the ongoing investigation.
The UAW said that Jewell didn’t know the shotgun was purchased with training center money and later reimbursed the training center.
Jewell also factored into other questionable expenses.
Former Fiat Chrysler executive Alphons Iacobelli approved spending more than $30,000 in worker training funds on a party for Jewell, a bash that included “ultra-premium” liquor and strolling models who lit labor leaders’ cigars, The Detroit News has learned.
The training funds covered the $7,000 cigar purchase and a $3,000 tab for wine in bottles with custom labels that featured Jewell’s name, sources told The News. The party was described by federal prosecutors as an example of a cozy relationship between the automaker and UAW leaders designed to corrupt the bargaining process and implementation of a contract for thousands of workers.
Johnson is the sixth person charged in a widening scandal that increasingly is focused on UAW officials who served on a committee that negotiated a union contract with Fiat Chrysler in 2015.
At least three UAW officials on the committee have either been charged or linked to the investigation, and that figure could climb, The News has learned. Jewell and King also served on the committee.
Jewell and Adams-Johnson were two of the UAW’s top negotiators during 2015 contract negotiations with Fiat Chrysler.
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