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 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:
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 [...]
Wilson Kay Jr., the man who signed an affidavit saying he saw Attorney General Mike Cox in attendance and getting a lap dance at a now-legendary party alleged to have happened at the Manoogian Mansion in 2002, still cannot be located to give an actual deposition in the civil proceedings that concern the events of [...]
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 GOP primary race for governor has been weighted with attack promotional materials since February. Websites, robocalls, radio commercials and television ads have targeted nearly all of the candidates at one time or another. But Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard, who is polling in fourth place in the five way race, says the ads are [...]
The Detroit Free Press examined the publicly available records in the controversial lawsuit against the city of Detroit by three of Tamara “Strawberry” Greene’s children. The lawsuit has become a political weapon in the primary for the GOP nomination for governor, with Attorney General Mike Cox being targeted from the revelations in the lawsuit’s affidavit [...]
A former dispatcher for the Detroit 911 system says the rumored party at Manoogian Mansion featuring strippers did happen. And she said in an affidavit filed in federal court yesterday that she dispatched officers to the mayoral mansion. The filing comes in the civil suit against the city by the family of exotic dancer Tamara [...]
Attorney General Mike Cox says the recent bad publicity over his role in an investigation into an alleged party at Manoogian Mansion during the reign of former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick will not force him to drop from the race for the GOP nomination for governor in 201. The Macomb Daily caught up with the AG [...]
A state police investigator alleged Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox interfered with an investigation into a party that allegedly occurred at the Detroit mayoral residence, Manoogian Mansion. Investigator Mark Krebs, a detective with the Michigan State Police, testified in the civil lawsuit against former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and other officials for their alleged involvement [...]
The Detroit Free Press has a fascinating front-page feature on the politics of dollars and cents – and image – focusing on Mayor Dave Bing’s possible relocation to the city’s Manoogian Mansion.
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