Prosecutors asked a federal judge to appoint a well-known trial attorney and former government watchdog as the official monitor of the United Auto Workers union’s anti-corruption efforts.
Detroit-based federal prosecutors asked U.S. District Judge David Lawson of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan in a court filing Monday to appoint Jenner & Block attorney Neil Barofsky to oversee the union under a wide-ranging settlement with the federal government.
Barofsky previously served as the inspector general for Troubled Asset Relief Program, the $700 billion bailout program for the financial industry in 2008, creating a law enforcement program ...
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