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.
Though he is now out of prison, the legal trouble for former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick got a bit worse this week when his former fundraiser pleaded guilty and agreed to testify against him in the upcoming federal corruption trial.
Adding to the court circus that has been the public life of former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, the city is suing former police monitor Sheryl Robinson Wood, reports The Detroit News.
Thanks to the federal racketeering indictment handed down last week, it is now known that former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s abuse of public office began at least 10 years ago when as a state representative he got the legislature to appropriate $800,000 to non-profits that were supposed to help children and seniors but instead covered personal expenses for him and his wife Carlita.
Kwame Kilpatrick’s associate Bobby Ferguson received more than $310 million in contracts with the Detroit Water and Sewerage Dept. despite official supervision of the department by U.S. District Judge John Feikens.
Shady deals involving city contracts and Kilpatrick appointees extend beyond what was described in this weeks federal racketeering indictment of Kilpatrick and associates, Charlie LeDuff of FOX 2 Detroit reports.
Detroit’s former mayor, already serving prison time, his father, and two of his top aides were indicted on federal racketeering charges Wednesday in one of the largest public corruption cases in city history.
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 [...]
A new witness who claims to have been a stripper at the long-rumored but never confirmed Manoogian mansion party that allegedly ended with the death of Tamara Greene has a history of delusions, according to court documents filed in an unrelated case. The Detroit News reports:
Last month a federal judge blasted the city of Detroit for destroying a computer that belonged to former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick because it likely contained evidence that could be important in ongoing corruption investigations. Now Kilpatrick has said in court filings that he gave that computer to Ken Cockrel Jr., who succeeded him in office [...]
As if the city of Detroit needed any more lurid scandals involving sex and political corruption, a new legal filing by the plaintiffs’ attorney in the Tamara Greene lawsuit says that disgraced former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick had an affair with Sheryl Robinson Wood, who was named by the federal government to oversee the Detroit Police [...]
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