SEIU president's appointees

Once a rising star in the labor movement, now banned for life by SEIU for allegedly engaging in a broad corruption scheme as head of its largest California local, he has been ordered to repay more than $1 million. He is the subject of a federal criminal investigation and a Congressional inquiry. He has denied wrongdoing.

Former chief of staff to Freeman, he was removed as president of SEIU's biggest Michigan local. He is accused of improperly taking $33,500 in payments from a housing nonprofit sponsored by Freeman's local. SEIU says Jackson is returning the money.

The SEIU executive vice president, the union's highest-ranking official in California and head of a local in Los Angeles, is on leave. She stepped aside in SEIU investigation of payments to her ex-boyfriend, Alejandro Stephens, former president of an earlier incarnation of Grajeda's local. She has denied wrongdoing.

U.S. Labor Department, FBI and the U.S. attorney's office are investigating Freeman and his local, and his dealings with two affiliated charities, sources say. The House labor committee also is investigating. The city of Compton has probed whether it was defrauded when it donated parcels to the union-sponsored housing charity.

Freeman required workers of a second charity to work on political campaigns -- despite laws barring such activities -- then denied it to the Internal Revenue Service during a 2006 investigation, sources say. The IRS declined to say whether it has reopened the probe.

Source: U.S. Labor Department, IRS records, Times reporting