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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 — Details provided in the indictment of political consultant Sam Riddle suggest that he was the negotiator in multiple incidents of bribery and extortion for former Detroit City Council member Monica Conyers.
In a still developing story, the career of Detroit City Council member Monica Conyers, wife of U.S. Rep. John Conyers, is essentially done. After pleading guilty to bribery charges Friday morning, members of the city council have called on their colleague, who could face five years in prison, to resign.
DETROIT — City Councilwoman Monica Conyers entered U.S. District Court downtown around 10 a.m. to plead guilty to bribery charges connected to the Synagro Technologies sludge hauling scandal, the Detroit Free Press reports. Conyers, who is married to U.S. Rep. John Conyers Jr., is suspected of accepting more than $6,000 in exchange for a vote [...]
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 [...]
DETROIT — The FBI has offered Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers a plea deal involving her apparent connection to the Synagro Technologies sludge scandal according to published reports Tuesday afternoon. Conyers, who is married to U.S. Rep. John Conyers Jr., is suspected of being “Council member A,” a figure investigators say accepted money for a [...]
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