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 week after a legal filing in the Tamara Greene case revealed that former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick had an affair with Sheryl Robinson Wood, the trustee named by the federal government to oversee the Detroit Police Department, city officials and the Department of Justice say Wood should have to repay the millions she was paid for that job. The Detroit News reports:
Ousted federal police monitor Sheryl Robinson Wood, who resigned after the FBI discovered text messages sent between her and ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick should pay a substantial penalty for her conduct, according to the Department of Justice.
But the penalty should be less than the $10 million sought by the city of Detroit, the Justice Department and U.S. Attorney’s Office wrote in a filing today in U.S. District Court.
“Sanctioning Robinson Wood in the amount of the fees paid for her own work, although a steep price to pay, is appropriate in light of her role as an agent of the Court and the nature and extent of her deception” according to a filing today signed by Jeffrey R. Murray, a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division.
A steep price indeed.
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