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.
For the second time this year, Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick was called to testify in front of a federal grand jury investigating corruption in the Detroit politics, the Detroit News reports. It is known that the grand jury is investigating her son, Kwame Kilpatrick, and her ex-husband, Bernard Kilpatrick, but the Congresswoman herself is not believed to be a target.
Alan Gershel, a former federal prosecutor who teaches at Cooley Law School, told the News of three possible reasons why she would be called a second time to testify:
“It could be for a fairly innocent reason or it could be for more serious reasons.”
One possibility is that the government did not complete its questioning the first time and needed to call the witness back to finish her testimony, he said.
A second possibility is that investigators developed new information since her first grand jury appearance that prompted new areas of questioning they wanted to cover, he said.
Thirdly, “they may have been dissatisfied with some of the answers and may have called the witness back to clarify,” Gershel said.
This federal investigation has been going on for at least the last two years. It has already resulted in bribery and corruption convictions for former Detroit City Councilmember Monica Conyers, her former aide Sam Riddle and former state Rep. Mary Waters. More indictments, perhaps many more, are expected.
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