In a twist of corporate justice, FCA admitted guilt in 2021, agreeing to a $30 million fine for diverting $3.5 million to UAW officials from 2009 to 2016. The UAW, in a separate agreement, consented to pay the IRS $1.5 million and submitted to six years of monitoring.
This scandal has seen its share of fallouts, with key figures like FCA’s former VP for Employee Relations, Alphons Iacobelli, receiving prison sentences for their role in the bribery scheme.
Legal Representatives: A Mosaic of Counsel
As the dust settles, the legal teams remain on standby. The engineers’ battle is championed by Kenneth D. Myers, while FCA’s defense is fortified by a team from Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and Miller Canfield Paddock & Stone PLC. UAW’s legal strategy is helmed by representatives from Bredhoff & Kaiser PLLC. The case, while resolved in the courts, leaves a lingering question: in the grand theatre of corporate America, is justice a matter of timing or truth?
