Monica Morgan Holiefield, the widow of former UAW Vice- President General Holiefield, has filed a notice to appeal her conviction in the corruption scandal connected to job training centers in the auto industry.
Morgan Holiefield was sentenced to a year and a half in prison in a plea agreement to a federal tax crime. In exchange, the U-S attorney dropped the more serious charges. She did not cite grounds for appeal.
The case said Morgan Holiefield benefited from illegal payments to her husband from Fiat Chrysler’s job training center with the U-A-W and used shell companies to hide the income.
She was also fined 25-thousand dollars and ordered to pay restitution.
Morgan Holiefeild filed the motion to appeal representing herself, without a lawyer.