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.
Attorneys for disgraced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick on Thursday filed an appeal of the sentence — but not the conviction — that he received for violating the terms of his probation. Kilpatrick is currently serving a sentence of 14 months to five years for failing to pay required restitution and hiding his assets from [...]
Kwame Kilpatrick has a new attorney, Arnold Reed, and he is arguing that the prison sentence given to the disgraced former Detroit mayor for violating the terms of his probation should, contrary to the statement of Judge David Groner, cancel out the restitution requirement. When he finishes that sentence, Reed says, Kilpatrick should owe the [...]
As expected, Judge David Groner said no to diverting Kwame Kilpatrick from prison to a boot camp program that would have cut his prison time from 1 1/2 – 5 years to a mere 90 days, telling the Michigan Department of Corrections that he will not agree to allow Kilpatrick into the program.
With the possibility of disgraced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick being diverted to a boot camp that would cut his sentence down to a mere 90 days hanging in the air, Judge David Groner sent back a letter written by Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy opposing such a diversion, saying that the DA has no [...]
The Detroit News reports that disgraced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick “has qualified for a boot camp program that could get him out of his 1 1/2 – to 5-year sentence in as little as 90 days.” But in order to get into the program, Judge David Groner — the man who sentenced him to [...]
Judge David Groner is clearly fed up with Kwame Kilpatrick’s behavior in attempting to hide income from the court and is sending a very strong message by sending the disgraced former Detroit mayor to prison for up to five years for those actions. The Detroit Free Press reports live from the hearing:
Disgraced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is back in court in Wayne County this morning, going before the judge that he tried (and failed) to have removed from his restitution case. Judge David Groner is set to rule on whether Kilpatrick violating his probation by failing to make a court-ordered restitution payment of more than [...]
Disgraced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick lost his attempt to have Judge David Groner kicked off his case after Groner came down hard on him for hiding money from the court and ordered him to pay his $1 million restitution far faster than previously required. The Detroit Free Press reports:
After failing to make a $79,000 restitution payment as required by court order, disgraced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was ordered to appear in a Wayne County court on Friday. A warrant for his arrest is expected to be issued before then, the Detroit News reports:
Disgraced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick missed most of his court-ordered restitution payment over the last few days and the judge in his case has ordered his attorneys to appear in court Tuesday morning. The Detroit News reports that on Friday, Kilpatrick paid $14,048 of the more than $79,000 he was ordered to pay, and [...]
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