Feds get 10th conviction in union corruption probe
DETROIT (AP) — A former union official has pleaded guilty to accepting more than $120,000 in bribes and kickbacks from contractors with business at a United Auto Workers training center.
Jeff Pietrzyk’s plea agreement calls for federal prosecutors in Detroit to seek no more than two years and three months in prison.
Pietrzyk of Grand Island, New York, pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy. He's the 10th person to be convicted in an investigation of corruption inside the UAW and the auto industry.
Pietrzyk was accused of taking payments to steer contracts to vendors for watches, jackets and backpacks for union members. He was an administrative assistant who worked closely with Joe Ashton, now retired as a UAW vice president.
JPMorgan to push to hire more with criminal records
NEW YORK (AP) — JPMorgan Chase & Co. is announcing an expansion of its policy to hire more people with criminal records, potentially giving more former offenders a second chance to find work.
The bank said it plans to spend $7 million to support programs in Chicago, Detroit, Seattle, New York City, Nashville, Tennessee, and Delaware that work with people with criminal backgrounds to develop career skills.
The bank already stopped putting questions about a person’s criminal background on its applications and each year hires 2,100 people in the U.S. with criminal backgrounds.
Sotomayor shares words of wisdom with Connecticut children
MERIDEN, Conn. (AP) — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has shared her secrets of success with nearly 200 Connecticut elementary school kids.
Sotomayor told the kids during an recent appearance at Maloney High School in Meriden to work hard, be kind, accept people and seek opportunities to do good. She urged them to push past challenges and to think hopefully of their futures.
The Record-Journal reports that Sotomayor was in the city to speak about her children’s book “Just Ask,” a story of the challenges some children face and the differences they have, coupled with the skills they possess.
Sotomayor apologized to two children for leaving them a world “where there is war, climate change, hunger, poverty, and health problems,” but said she was confident their generation could do better than hers.
‘Breaking Bad’ beer sells out within three hours in Albuquerque
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A beer named after the AMC-TV hit series “Breaking Bad” and brewed by an actor from the show sold out after its debut.
KOB-TV reports “Breaking Bad” fans lined up at three Albuquerque Costcos, but the brew was gone within three hours.
Dean Norris, who played a DEA agent in the series, started to brew German lager, Schraderbräu, following the premiere of Netflix’s “El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie” earlier this month.
Norris says he will launch the beer nationwide soon.
“Breaking Bad” follows an Albuquerque high school chemistry teacher turned meth lord, Walter White, played by Bryan Cranston. The series ran from 2008 to 2013.
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