(Detroit News)
Robert Snell April 1, 2019 12:00 a.m.
A Fiat Chrysler Automobiles executive convicted of bribing United Auto Workers officials is threatening to expose new crimes and questioning whether retired union president Dennis Williams received illegal payments.
Former Fiat Chrysler Vice President Alphons Iacobelli leveled the threat in a recent legal filing while questioning whether officials who controlled the UAW-Chrysler National Training Center steered money and benefits to union bosses as part of a broader effort by the Auburn Hills automaker to wring contract concessions from the union.
Iacobelli is questioning whether worker training funds paid for lavish UAW parties, if charities controlled by union bosses received cash and whether more money was used to hire rhythm-and-blues band The O'Jays, best known for the lyric "Money money money money, money," according to the legal filing.
Iacobelli, 59, is battling a civil lawsuit filed by the UAW-Chrysler National Training Center, known as the NTC, a legal fight that is intensifying months after he was convicted in an ongoing investigation of public corruption within the U.S. auto industry.
Training center officials have sued Iacobelli and are trying to recoup more than $2.6 million the disgraced auto executive was accused of stealing and spending on a $365,000 Ferrari, two Montblanc fountain pens that cost $35,700 each, a $544,000 renovation at his Rochester Hills mansion and his wife's $868,736 credit card bill.
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