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.
A former principal, a school accountant and a police officer are being charged with felonies for embezzling more than $150,000 from the Detroit Public Schools, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy and DPS emergency manager Robert Bobb announced today.
The Detroit Free Press reports that the charges were brought following a DPS investigation that was triggered by an anonymous tip.
Gwendolyn Miller, 58, former principal at Randolph Career and Technical Center is being charged with embezzlement by a public official, a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison, and embezzling more than $1,000 but less than $20,000, a felony punishable by up to five years in prison, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy announced today.
Miller allegedly had a school furnace installed in her home by a school employee and took merchandise from the school’s boutique. She is accused of taking a total of $1,447 in goods and money.The accountant, Eugenia Rose Holimon, 47, is accused of conducting a criminal enterprise and is facing six felonies for allegedly using school money between 2006 and 2009 to pay more than $29,000 on her home mortgage and for using DPS credit cards. She allegedly allowed her son and a friend to also make purchases on DPS accounts.
Robert Gibson, 57, a friend of Eugenia Holimon, and a former Detroit police department officer in the communications department, allegedly purchased more than $100,000 worth of home improvement supplies and electronics for his Farmington Hills home and rental properties using DPS accounts at Lowe’s and Home Depot.
At a press conference announcing the charges this morning, Robert Bobb said that Detroit Public Schools had become, “a den of thieves and a cesspool of corruption”.
According to Crain’s Detroit Business, Bobb said, “I continue to be surprised by those people who tell me that it’s the culture of our school system and of our city that this kind of criminal activity is acceptable in the hearts, souls and minds of this community.”
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