{"id":373831,"date":"2018-08-18T01:29:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T00:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/late-fiat-chrysler-ceo-sergio-marchionne-lied-to-federal-investigators-about-gift-to-uaw-official\/"},"modified":"2018-08-18T01:29:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T00:29:10","slug":"late-fiat-chrysler-ceo-sergio-marchionne-lied-to-federal-investigators-about-gift-to-uaw-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/late-fiat-chrysler-ceo-sergio-marchionne-lied-to-federal-investigators-about-gift-to-uaw-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Late Fiat Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne lied to federal investigators about gift to UAW official"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Late Fiat Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne lied to federal investigators about gift to UAW official<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Marcus Day<br \/>\n    <br \/>17 August 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Former Fiat Chrysler Automobiles CEO Sergio Marchionne, who died on July 25 following complications during surgery to treat cancer, lied to federal investigators in 2016 about whether he had given a luxury Italian watch to United Auto Workers Vice President General Holiefield, according to a report Thursday morning in the <em>Detroit News<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The report is the second this week in the ongoing UAW corruption scandal, which since last summer has revealed that money from the UAW-Chrysler National Training Center was funneled to union officials in return for pushing through pro-company contracts.<\/p>\n<div class=\"imageFull\" style=\"width:480px; oveflow:hidden;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/asset\/8350992f-c5e8-42ca-80db-8bb031b69b0L\/image.png?rendition=image480\" srcset=\"\/asset\/8350992f-c5e8-42ca-80db-8bb031b69b0L\/image.png?rendition=image960 2x\" width=\"480\" style=\"width:480px;\" \/><span>Holiefield and Marchionne, Credit: FCA<\/span><\/div>\n<p>On Monday, attorneys for indicted former FCA executive Alphons Iacobelli filed a memorandum asserting that the conspiracy to bribe union officials \u201cstarted long before\u201d 2009, the year to which investigators have thus far nominally traced the scheme.<\/p>\n<p>An autoworker with nearly six years at FCA\u2019s Kokomo, Indiana, transmission plants\u2014where workers recently voted nearly unanimously to authorize a strike over hundreds of health and safety violations\u2014told the WSWS <em>Autoworker Newsletter<\/em> that the latest revelations should raise questions about the forced bankruptcy of the company in 2009. During that time, the administration of Democratic President Barack Obama, with the collaboration of the UAW, oversaw the bankruptcy of both Chrysler and GM and rammed through a brutal restructuring of the auto industry, shuttering numerous plants and slashing the pay of all newly hired autoworkers in half.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this newest information, maybe they should go back before the bankruptcy and find out why Chrysler was in the shape it was&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/08\/17\/uawc-a17.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Late Fiat Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne lied to federal investigators about gift to UAW official By Marcus Day 17 August 2018 Former Fiat Chrysler Automobiles CEO Sergio Marchionne, who died on July 25 following complications during surgery to treat cancer, lied to federal investigators in 2016 about whether he had given a luxury Italian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-373831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}