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Williams promised to serve only a single four-year term as leader of the UAW, and he retired as planned in 2018. By that time, allegations of financial corruption in the union had emerged. Williams insisted that he knew nothing about many of the cases, but in
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conspiracy to embezzle union funds. He was sentenced to 21 months in prison, was fined $ 10,000, and ordered to repay $ 132,000 to the UAW.
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