Biden Labor Ally Headed to Prison

The former president of one of President Joe Biden's closest union allies is heading to jail in connection to a multimillion-dollar corruption scheme.

Dennis Williams, who served as the president of the international United Auto Workers union for four years, was sentenced to 21 months in prison, the U.S. attorney's office for the Eastern District of Michigan announced Tuesday. Williams was convicted of conspiring with at least six other union officials to embezzle funds from union members. A federal corruption probe found that Williams had also used union funds to pay for his personal expenses.

"Instead of serving the interests of the hard-working men and women of the UAW, Dennis Williams conspired with senior UAW officials to embezzle over $1 million in union funds," one of the investigators said in a press release. "We will continue to work with our law enforcement partners to investigate corrupt union officials who betray the union members they are entrusted to represent."