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 [...]
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State Rep. Mark Meadows (Photo by Todd A. Heywood/Michigan Messenger)
LANSING — State Rep. Mark Meadows, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, wants to ask Attorney General Mike Cox about what his office is doing regarding 15 cases of alleged mortgage fraud referred to him by the Office of Financial and Insurance Services. Those 15 cases have been referred since Jan. 1, 2008, but it’s unclear what action the attorney general’s office has taken, if any, in those cases. Repeatedly, Cox’s office has refused to answer inquiries regarding the cases.
Meadows said he needs another piece of legislation pending before his committee in order to “invite” the attorney general to speak.
“It might be after July Fourth,” Meadows, an East Lansing Democrat, said in a recent interview with Michigan Messenger.
And why is it an invitation and not a demand?
“We don’t have the authority to make him appear,” Meadows said. “We have the authority to ask the full House for the authority to issue a subpoena.”
Meadows joins with a Senate lawmaker, Gretchen Whitmer, a fellow Democrat from East Lansing, in asking questions about the attorney general’s action, or lack of action, in regard to prosecuting mortgage fraud cases.
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