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.
Former state Rep. Mary Waters is asking the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals to allow her to withdraw her guilty plea in a federal corruption trial where she was a co-defendant with her former boyfriend Sam Riddle.
Two weeks ago former U.S. Attorney Richard Convertino petitioned a federal court to allow him to withdraw as attorney for Sam Riddle because he has not been paid. Now he has been given permission to withdraw as attorney for Riddle’s sometimes girlfriend, former state Rep. Mary Waters, as well. The Detroit News reports:
The ongoing soap opera involving Sam Riddle, Mary Waters and Monica Conyers has taken yet another turn as Richard Convertino, the former U.S. Attorney who represented both Riddle and Waters in their federal corruption trial earlier this year, has asked the court to allow him to withdraw as Riddle’s attorney during the appeal because Riddle [...]
Sam Riddle, Mary Waters and Monica Conyers, always close political allies if not sometimes lovers, appear to actually be sharing a brain these days. Riddle joined his compatriots in seeking to withdraw the guilty plea he made in a bribery and corruption trial in which he was co-defendant with Waters. Their buyer’s remorse is highly [...]
Former state Rep. Mary Waters, like former Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers, is trying to withdraw a guilty plea for bribery and corruption that she made earlier this year. And like Conyers, it is highly unlikely that a court is going to allow it. Federal prosecutors filed papers with the court on Monday arguing that [...]
For the second time this year, Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick was called to testify in front of a federal grand jury investigating corruption in the Detroit politics, the Detroit News reports. It is known that the grand jury is investigating her son, Kwame Kilpatrick, and her ex-husband, Bernard Kilpatrick, but the Congresswoman herself is not [...]
Detroit political consultant Sam Riddle and his former girlfriend and former state Rep. Mary Waters both reached plea deals to end their federal bribery and corruption trials on Thursday. Riddle admitted to more serious charges than Waters, the Detroit News reports:
Just when you thought the Mary Waters/Sam Riddle situation couldn’t get any more surreal — Waters, a former state representative, filed papers on Tuesday to run for the state Senate seat being vacated by Hansen Clarke. Because nothing helps a political campaign more than facing trial on federal bribery and corruption charges. Clarke is running [...]
After being convicted in state court of assault charges for brandishing a shotgun in a confrontation with his girlfriend, former state Rep. Mary Waters, Sam Riddle seemed to indicate that he might be open to a plea bargain in his federal trial on bribery and corruption charges. The Detroit News reports that he may well [...]
As the state criminal trial for assault ends for Sam Riddle and the federal bribery and corruption trial is about to begin — a trial in which he is a co-defendant with the victim he was just convicted of pulling a shotgun on in the assault trial — the whole sordid relationship between Riddle and [...]
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