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A former General Motors Corp. executive who was a fugitive abroad for more than a year returned to the United States Wednesday and pleaded guilty Thursday to federal charges relating to an $80 million kickback and fraud scheme involving GM’s sale of bulk aluminum to third parties, federal authorities said.
Daniel Bealko, GM’s former global commodity manager for lightweight metals, also pleaded guilty to federal income tax evasion. He admitted that he concealed from the IRS about $6.5 million in kickbacks from his co-defendant, Anthony Demetrius Brown, a Highland Park businessman who was engaged in metal brokerage and commodity trading businesses and who previously pleaded guilty in the case.
