An internal affairs investigation is underway following the Detroit Fire Department’s bungled, suspicious handling of a bizarre car accident involving an embattled deputy chief.
Six Detroit police officers have been suspended as part of an ongoing federal investigation.
Federal investigators are probing questionable contracts doled out by Mayor Mike Duggan’s demolition program over the past two years.
Two suspended Detroit cops who are accused of stealing drugs, money and property during warrantless raids and bogus arrests were indicted.
The firm, Conway MacKenzie, hired Dillon after he was forced to resign as treasurer. Dillon helped the firm land a lucrative contract to help handle Detroit’s financial troubles.
The Rev. Horace Sheffield III, who is running for Congress, said he wishes he had kept his mouth shut.
The probe was triggered by a conversation between Police Chief James Craig, the Rev. Horace Sheffield and political consultant Adolph Mongo.
When we launched Motor City Muckraker in the summer of 2012, we wanted to explore Detroit in ways that the local media hadn’t.
Most of the racist videos are shot from squad cars while African American men were told to sing or dance. One of the subjects was even in the back of police cars.
Agents swarmed the home and business of Carolyn Darden, who served as the district’s director of grants – a position that would have given her access to tens of millions of dollars.