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.
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 may be just getting started on trying to withdraw her guilty plea for bribery and corruption charges, but former Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers is much further along in that process, asking a federal appeals court to overturn a district court judge’s decision rejecting her attempt to withdraw the guilty [...]
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 [...]
Monica Conyers — former Detroit City Council chairperson and the wife of longtime U.S. Congressman John Conyers — is set to begin a three-year prison term after turning herself in at 2 pm today. But the Detroit Free Press reports that it’s not exactly the Florence Supermax prison she’s going to:
In June, former Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers requested and received a delay in the start of sentence in prison until Sept. 10 so she could be there for an unnamed relative facing surgery. The judge has now denied her request for a second delay and ordered her to report to prison on that date. [...]
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 [...]
Former Detroit City Council Chairwoman Monica Conyers, wife of U.S. Rep. John Conyers, was granted a request to delay the start of her prison term for bribery and corruption. She was scheduled to report to prison on July 1, but Judge Avern Cohn agreed to allow her to report on Sept. 10 instead. Conyers asked [...]
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 [...]
Former Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers got a new attorney for the civil suit filed against her by a substance abuse counselor who claims Conyers got him fired for his involvement in a recall petition against her while she was on the city council. But in the process, Judge Victoria Roberts — the same federal [...]
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