I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
Automotive News reports that the special Inspector General for the federal TARP program has identified several types of fraud that the Obama administration’s $5 billion bailout fund for auto suppliers may be susceptible to.
The U.S. Treasury Department’s $5 billion fund for auto suppliers may be susceptible to fraud, a watchdog for the federal bailout said today.
The fund, which provides government-backed protection to suppliers against automakers’ failure to pay for goods received, may be exposed to “phantom receivables,” said a report by the special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
These receivables are auto parts that qualify for federal funding but are never delivered to the manufacturers.
The fund also may be susceptible to commercial bribery because of the unchecked power given to automakers to pick the suppliers that can participate in the program, according to the 248-page report to Congress.
This was one small part of a massive report on the entire TARP program by Neil Barofsky, whose job is to make sure the program’s funds are used correctly.
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