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.
In a rather unusual move, Bernard Kilpatrick, father of disgraced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, has been given a court-appointed attorney before he has even been charged with a crime. The Detroit Free Press reports:
A federal judge slammed the city of Detroit on Tuesday after being told that disgraced former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s computer was thrown out several months before he left office, potentially destroying evidence that might have been relevant to the seemingly endless lawsuit over an alleged party at the Manoogian Mansion that resulted in the death [...]
Disgraced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick lost his appeal of the prison sentence he is currently serving for violating the terms of his probation by hiding income and assets from the court and failing to pay restitution on time. The appeals court issued a ruling (PDF) with no explanation, only that the case was “denied [...]
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 [...]
Disgraced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick will now get two more attorneys on his defense team at public expense in his federal trial for tax evasion and fraud. The Detroit News reports that the judge in his federal case — not to be confused with the state trial for probation violations, for which he is [...]
Kwame Kilpatrick is not by himself as a former Detroit official going to prison. His former Deputy Mayor Kandia Milton has been sentenced to 14 months in prison for bribery and corruption. Prosecutors had recommended a lighter sentence than Milton had plea bargained for because he was so valuable to them in building cases against [...]
Perhaps at the worst possible time — just days before the Aug. 3 gubernatorial primary — Attorney General Mike Cox finds himself once again having to deny allegations surrounding an alleged party in 2002 at the Manoogian mansion, the traditional home for the mayor of Detroit. As AG, Cox concluded that the party, which allegedly [...]
The Detroit Free Press reports on documents they’ve obtained from the ongoing corruption investigation into Detroit politics which show Rayford Jackson, the Synagro executive now in prison for bribing city officials to get a sludge-hauling contract, listing all of the various political insiders who demanded money from him to get the contract passed by the [...]
While disgraced — and imprisoned — former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s spokesman claims that the lack of bribery charges in the recent federal indictment of his client somehow absolves him of wrongdoing, it appears that more serious corruption charges may well be on the way from the same federal grand jury. The Detroit Free Press [...]
From the Department of Silly Rhetoric: The attorney for disgraced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick says that the federal indictment on 19 charges of fraud and tax evasion is only making him stronger and focusing his resolve. The Detroit News reports:
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