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.
Like her former aide Sam Riddle, former Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers is juggling multiple criminal and civil cases against her — and apparently refusing to even defend herself in one such case. The city of Detroit is asking to be relieved of the need to defend her in a civil suit because, they say, [...]
In a filing in the federal corruption trial of former Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers, U.S. Attorneys argued that the defendant cannot retract her guilty plea or ask for an appeal because she waived her right to appeal when she pleaded guilty. The Detroit News reports:
Here’s a very strange development in the Monica Conyers saga: She says she’s broke and needs the taxpayers to pay for a court appointed lawyer. And she got one, according to the Detroit Free Press, which reports that Judge Avern Cohn appointed an attorney to handle the appeal asking for her guilty plea on corruption [...]
Former Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers has filed an appeal of the 37 month sentence she received earlier this week after pleading guilty to accepting bribes in exchange for her vote on a sludge hauling contract. But the Detroit News reports that the sentence could have been even worse, as the judge had initially wanted [...]
Former Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers, wife of U.S. Rep. John Conyers, was sentenced to 37 months in prison for accepting bribes in exchange for votes in the Synagro sludge hauling scandal. She could have faced a maximum of five years, so the sentence of just over three years could actually be seen as a [...]
The massive federal bribery and corruption investigation that has already brought down former Detroit City Councilor Monica Conyers and a former Synagro executive — and led to the recent mistrial of Sam Riddle, which will be fought out again in court — may also end up with former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick being charged. The [...]
After being told by the judge to stop using social networking sites to comment on his legal troubles, embattled Detroit political consultant Sam Riddle has gone back to his Twitter account again, this time criticizing his attorneys in the federal bribery and corruption trial that could put him in prison for many years. The Detroit [...]
Detroit’s latest public corruption production is, mercifully, almost over. In fact, closing arguments over political consultant Sam Riddle’s alleged scheme to extort thousands in bribes were entered into the record just a couple hours ago. Summing up the prosecution’s take on the self-described “political pirate” (courtesy of extensive wire tapped phone calls), Assistant U.S. Attorney [...]
Synagro, the Houston sludge hauling company, seems to be angling for a spot in the chutzpah hall of fame. They got caught bribing city council member Monica Conyers, who will soon be going to jail for it along with Synagro VP James Rosendall and Rayford Jackson, the middleman in the deal, and the company still [...]
Ex-Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers isn’t expected to take the witness stand in the ongoing public corruption trial of her former aide Sam Riddle, but that doesn’t mean she isn’t a central figure in the courtroom drama that’s been playing out in sordid detail. Today is the sixth day of evidence in the federal trial. [...]
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