Virdell King wasn’t the main character in the self-dealing among certain officials of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) and the United Auto Workers. But she may be headed for a brief stretch behind bars anyway. On November 13, Ms. King, a former contract negotiator for the UAW, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan to two months in prison plus a year of supervised release for her receipt of tens of thousands of dollars from the till of the company’s National Training Center (NTC) in return for a promise to drop certain union demands during collective bargaining a few years ago. She also was ordered to pay a $5,500 fine and a $100 special assessment. The sentencing follows a joint probe by the FBI, the IRS and the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards and Office of Inspector General.
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