Gary Jones, the newly-elected President of the United Auto Workers (UAW), addresses the 37th UAW Constitutional Convention June14, 2018 at Cobo Center in Detroit, Michigan.

DETROIT — Former United Auto Workers President Gary Jones was charged with embezzlement and defrauding the U.S. government as part of a multiyear corruption probe into one of America's most prominent unions.

Court documents unsealed Thursday suggest more union officials could be charged as federal prosecutors identified four other unnamed co-conspirators in the scheme that allegedly included embezzling more than $1 million of union funds for golf trips, expensive cigars, liquor and other merchandise and luxuries.

The charges were released as part of a criminal information. Criminal informations are routinely used to charge people who intend to plead guilty. Federal prosecutors declined to comment on the charges.

UAW said in a statement that "all UAW members including the UAW leadership are and should be angry about the charges of former UAW member Gary Jones and his alleged actions. This is a violation of trust, a violation of the sacred management of union dues, and goes against everything we believe in as a union."

Jones resigned from leading the 400,000-member union effective Nov. 20 — the same day the UAW International Executive Board started the process of removing him from office.

Jones began a leave of absence from the union starting Nov. 3, days after he was implicated as being part of the ongoing probe that has led to convictions of 13 other people, including 10 affiliated with the union and three Fiat Chrysler executives.

The charges against Jones come days after federal prosecutors secured the conviction of one of his former top aides, Edward "Nick" Robinson, who agreed to cooperate with federal prosecutors as part of a plea deal.

Jones and his predecessor, UAW President Dennis Williams, have been targeted by federal officials for some time as part of the probe, including raids on their homes in August. Williams has not been charged with any crimes.

Federal officials previously said Jones, who was elected UAW president in June 2018, was one of a handful of union leaders who conspired to "embezzle, steal, and unlawfully and willfully abstract" more than $1.5 million in cash and assets for personal gain to fuel "lavish lifestyles."

Senior union officials involved in the scheme bought lavish dinners and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on hotels and private villas and tens of thousands of dollars on cigars as well as golf green fees and merchandise, investigators said.