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.
One in every 235 Michigan homes received a foreclosure notice in October, according to the latest report from RealtyTrac. Spokesman Daren Blomquist told the Detroit News that in Metro Detroit bank repossessions are up 50 percent from a year ago.
A Tipton couple has filed a lawsuit against Fannie Mae and several local contractors, reports the Adrian Telegram. Gary and Katherine Clark had their home foreclosed by Fannie Mae, and had until June 14 to clear out their belongings. They say that while they were in the process of packing and moving their belongings to [...]
Democratic candidate for governor Virg Bernero highlighted what he called unfair mortgage foreclosure practices at a press conference with Holt resident Bill Krieger. Krieger, who is a captain in the National Guard, received a letter from JP Morgan Chase notifying him that he was facing foreclosure. The problem? Krieger had never missed a payment.
Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero, the Democratic nominee for governor, put the focus on the foreclosure crisis over the last couple days, pointing to a rash of fraudulent and unjustified foreclosures in reiterating his call for a two-year moratorium.
Following up on Tuesday’s story about Attorney General Mike Cox’s ties to the foreclosure industry, Jason Moon, spokesperson for the state Office of Financial and Insurance Services, says Cox’s office has only brought charges in three of 16 cases referred to his office for prosecution.
The U.S. Treasury Dept. has given Michigan until mid-April to come up with an innovative way to use $150 million to help homeowners avoid foreclosure, AP reports. Last month the Treasury Dept. announced a Fund for Hardest Hit Housing Markets that would distribute $1.5 billion to foreclosure prevention efforts by state housing agencies in California, [...]
In an interview with Tim Skubick, Michigan Attorney General and GOP candidate for governor Mike Cox responds to allegations that he disrupted the Michigan State Police investigation of an alleged party at Manoogian Mansion, the Detroit Mayoral mansion. A Michigan State Police Detective testified under oath earlier this week that Cox refused to authorize investigators [...]
DETROIT — City council candidate Charles Pugh is facing foreclosure on his downtown condominium as he has fallen behind on payments to his $400,000 mortgage, the Detroit Free Press reports. Pugh quit his jobs at WJBK-TV (FOX 2 news) and at WJLB-FM (97.9) this spring to focus on his run for city council and since [...]
DETROIT — Rev. Jesse Jackson this week called for “mass action” to address the state’s foreclosure crisis and said that his civil rights non-profit organization, the Rainbow Push Coalition, is pressuring major mortgage lenders including Wells Fargo, Citibank and Bank of America to restructure homeowner’s loans to help avert foreclosures. Jackson said the government’s efforts [...]
Democratic Rep. John Conyers of Detroit, chairman of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, has called on the Treasury Dept. to provide details of what lenders have done to help people avoid foreclosure since Congress passed a bill encouraging them to engage in voluntary loan modification programs. In a Sept. 17 letter to Treasury Secretary Timothy [...]
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