The Justice Department is investigating UAW President Shawn Fain over allegations he sought financial favors for his fiancee and retaliated against Vice President Rich Boyer when Boyer refused to approve bonuses.
A federal monitor’s report filed about two weeks earlier said Boyer’s 2024 removal from oversight of the 40,000-member Stellantis Department was partly tied to that bonus dispute at the training center where Fain’s fiancee works.
Bloomberg previously reported the probe had reached a grand jury stage, with a subpoena sent to the UAW’s court-appointed monitor as investigators examined internal union communications.
Fain called the case a political stunt ahead of a six-way UAW presidential race, accused Boyer and monitor Neil Barofsky of trying to damage him, and said he hired a law firm to fight the claims.
The investigation lands under a 2021 consent decree that put the UAW under federal monitoring after a corruption scandal sent several former union leaders to prison.