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 [...]
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 [...]
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 political consultant was sentenced to two years in prison for weapons and assault charges stemming from an incident with his ex-girlfriend, former state Rep. Mary Waters. He will also have three years probation after serving his time. That sentence will run concurrently with the sentence in his federal corruption case, which has yet [...]
Sam Riddle, who turned himself in to federal authorities earlier this week in the hope that he can serve his sentences for federal bribery and corruption charges and for state assault charges simultaneously in federal prison rather than in state prison, was missing from his scheduled sentencing hearing on the assault charges this morning. Because [...]
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:
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