Monica Morgan, the widow of former UAW VP General Holiefield, was sentenced to 18 months in jail for her role in the FCA-UAW scandal.

The widow of a former top United Auto Workers official was sentenced to 18 months in jail for tax evasion uncovered during a federal investigation of the illicit diversion from training funds set up jointly by the UAW and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V.

Monica Morgan, 55, the widow of General Holiefield, the late UAW Vice President, who was at the center of the training-center scandal, was handed the jail time by a federal judge in Detroit.

Holiefield headed the UAW’s Chrysler Department from 2006 until his retirement in 2014 and has been described by FCA CEO Sergio Marchionne as critical to the company’s comeback. Holiefield died in 2015.

However, the federal investigation into the training funds has fund that Holiefield and former FCA vice president Alphons Iacobelli diverted hundreds of thousands of dollars from the training funds for personal use, including paying off the mortgage on Holiefield’s home in suburban Detroit.

UAW President Gary Jones said the FCA-UAW scandal was a failure of people, not the institution.

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Iacobelli, who is still awaiting sentencing, said the diversions were part of an effort to influence contracts discussions with union representatives. A total of five other FCA and UAW officials have been indicted or pleaded guilty to federal charges felony charges.

The UAW is conducting its own investigation into the mishandling of training funds, but it is unclear whether the result of the internal review will be made public or disclosed to union members.

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Gary Jones, the new UAW president, has described the misappropriation of training funds as a failure of individuals who put personal greed ahead of their responsibilities to the UAW and its members. It was not a failure of the institution, he said.

The fallout from the UAW-FCA training fund scandal continues as an appeals court ruled in favor of workers.

Monica Morgan will also serve a year of supervised release and pay a $25,000 fine, a judge decided. In the plea deal she signed last winter with federal authorities, who said she used the money to finance a “high-flying lifestyle during her marriage to Holiefield,” Morgan also agreed to make $100,000 in restitution to the U.S. government.

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Morgan’s attorney had asked for a more lenient sentence but the judge said federal sentencing guidelines precluded a lighter sentence on the tax evasion charge.