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.
A new witness who claims to have been a stripper at the long-rumored but never confirmed Manoogian mansion party that allegedly ended with the death of Tamara Greene has a history of delusions, according to court documents filed in an unrelated case. The Detroit News reports:
As if the city of Detroit needed any more lurid scandals involving sex and political corruption, a new legal filing by the plaintiffs’ attorney in the Tamara Greene lawsuit says that disgraced former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick had an affair with Sheryl Robinson Wood, who was named by the federal government to oversee the Detroit Police [...]
The federal judge in the case of the death of stripper Tamara Greene allegedly at a party at the Manoogian Mansion has dismissed an affidavit filed by a man who claims to have been working security for that party because the man is still missing after failing to show up for a deposition. The plaintiffs [...]
A federal judge slammed the city of Detroit on Tuesday after being told that disgraced former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s computer was thrown out several months before he left office, potentially destroying evidence that might have been relevant to the seemingly endless lawsuit over an alleged party at the Manoogian Mansion that resulted in the death [...]
The federal judge presiding over the Tamara Greene lawsuit, which features allegations that a party held by Kwame Kilpatrick at the Manoogian Mansion in Detroit resulted in the death of a stripper, has decided not to unseal the documents from the case at this time. The Detroit Free Press reports:
The Detroit Free Press examined the publicly available records in the controversial lawsuit against the city of Detroit by three of Tamara “Strawberry” Greene’s children. The lawsuit has become a political weapon in the primary for the GOP nomination for governor, with Attorney General Mike Cox being targeted from the revelations in the lawsuit’s affidavit [...]
A former dispatcher for the Detroit 911 system says the rumored party at Manoogian Mansion featuring strippers did happen. And she said in an affidavit filed in federal court yesterday that she dispatched officers to the mayoral mansion. The filing comes in the civil suit against the city by the family of exotic dancer Tamara [...]
Attorney General Mike Cox, who is in the midst of a bid for the GOP nomination for governor, says he can’t provide lawyers in a lawsuit with his phone records from 2003 because he can’t remember what service he used. The records were subpoenaed by lawyers representing the family of slain adult entertainer Tamara Greene [...]
A state police investigator alleged Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox interfered with an investigation into a party that allegedly occurred at the Detroit mayoral residence, Manoogian Mansion. Investigator Mark Krebs, a detective with the Michigan State Police, testified in the civil lawsuit against former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and other officials for their alleged involvement [...]
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