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.
Outspoken political consultant Sam Riddle refused his last chance at two plea deals Monday and will be the first figure accused of being involved in Detroit and Southfield bribery scandals to go to trial. FBI officials allege that Riddle negotiated and arranged bribes for convicted Detroit City councilwoman Monica Conyers and in a separate charge, [...]
DETROIT—Former Michigan Vice President of Synagro Technologies James Rosendall was sentenced to 11 months in prison and $200,000 in fines this afternoon for approving at least $6,000 in bribes to former city councilwoman Monica Conyers in exchange for a favorable vote on a $1.2 billion sludge disposal contract with Synagro, the Detroit Free Press reports. [...]
Even though Synagro Technologies has been tied to a bribery scandal that may land two company representatives, consultant Rayford Jackson and former Michigan executive James Rosendall, in prison, the Texas-based waste disposal company is in the running for a new contract with the city. When bribery charges against the company and elected officials came out [...]
Businessman Rayford Jackson, who was convicted this year of bribing city councilwoman Monica Conyers in 2007, will serve five years in prison, the Detroit Free Press reported late Friday afternoon. Five years was the maximum sentence that came with his guilty plea. U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn sentenced Jackson, and is set to sentence Conyers [...]
DETROIT — Former Detroit City Council president pro-tem Monica Conyers will be sentenced on Dec. 1 after admitting to bribery charges this summer. Conyers, who is the wife of U.S. Rep. John Conyers Jr., faces up to five years in prison for accepting money in exchange for a vote on a waste treatment contract, The [...]
DETROIT — Sam Riddle, a political consultant and former aide to embattled Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers, said he won’t make a plea deal with the FBI unless the agency agrees to leave his friend, congressional candidate Mary Waters, out of the investigation. Riddle insists that Waters has done nothing wrong and is only being [...]
DETROIT — City Councilwoman Monica Conyers has been identified in an FBI bribery probe as “Council Member A,” the city official investigators say received more than $6,000 in cash bribes in exchange for a deciding vote that approved a $1.2 billion sewage disposal contract with the waste management company Synagro Technologies. According to a report [...]
The FBI has announced that Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL), son of well-known activist Jesse Jackson Sr., has been identified as “Senate Candidate #5″. According to the complaint filed by the Department of Justice, “Senate Candidate #5″ offered Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich the sum of $1 million to be named to Obama’s senate seat.
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s former chief of staff, Christine Beatty, turned down another plea deal earlier this week that would cut down her jail time to 60 days. Now, she’s got everything riding on acquittal on all of the various and sundry charges related to the text message scandal.
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