"What the Monitor is doing is wrong, it’s unfair to the UAW and to you as members, and my lawyers are looking at any and all legal options I can pursue to make it stop," Fain said in an official statement, noting that he has retained a private law firm to contest the accusations.
The labor leader countered that Boyer had provided false claims to investigators and asserted that the monitor held a political bias against him stemming from a contentious 2024 dispute regarding the UAW executive board's public call for a ceasefire in Gaza.
The UAW declined to comment on the matter, though a legal representative for the organization stated that the union itself is not the target of the grand jury investigation, while Boyer and his attorney did not immediately respond to inquiries.
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The Department of Justice did not immediately return requests for comment regarding the status of the investigation, which follows a 2020 federal corruption settlement that placed the UAW under independent oversight after more than a dozen union officials were convicted of embezzling millions of dollars in member funds.
