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.
As if Kwame Kilpatrick didn’t have enough legal troubles already, a Wayne County Circuit Court jury heard testimony on Thursday that the disgraced former Detroit mayor refused to accept a subpoena to testify in a lawsuit brought by one of his former bodyguards, who alleges he was threatened and intimidated to remain silent about what he saw at an alleged party at Manoogian Mansion that may have led to the death of a stripper.
The Detroit News reports:
“I told him, ‘Mr. Kilpatrick, I have a subpoena for you.’ He told me to get out of his way,” Timothy Sargent testified today in Wayne County Circuit Judge Michael Sapala’s courtroom where Davis’ lawsuit against the city and Kilpatrick is being heard. “He told his guards to keep me away from him.”
Sargent said he confronted Kilpatrick twice as he left Circuit Judge David Groner’s fourth-floor courtroom last week. Sargent rushed down the stairs to confront Kilpatrick again in front of the courthouse. Kilpatrick, who usually stops on the courthouse steps after his frequent court appearances to make statements to the assembled media, rushed quickly to a waiting car without comment that day.
“He hugged some friends by the car and left quickly,” said Sargent who runs Rockdove Courier, a bicycle document delivery service in downtown Detroit.
In an affidavit Sargent filed with the court to explain his inability to get Kilpatrick to accept the order to appear before Sapala, he wrote, “He refused, snarled at me and told me to, ‘Get away from me.’ “
The refusal of the subpoena probably will not get Kwame in any more trouble, but the case in which his testimony is required could well add to his already ample legal problems.
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