Feds investigating Detroit Land Bank over questionable demo contracts
Federal investigators are probing questionable contracts doled out by Mayor Mike Duggan’s demolition program over the past two years.
Eastern Market slaughterhouse threatened with closure amid animal cruelty violations
The Halal slaughterhouse that has been illegally filling a dumpster with rotting lamb carcasses has a history of other “egregious violations.”
FBI investigates whether Detroit council members were paid off for president vote
The probe was triggered by a conversation between Police Chief James Craig, the Rev. Horace Sheffield and political consultant Adolph Mongo.
Big Detroit property firm accused of global Ponzi scheme
Metro Property Group is blamed for turning investors into “unwitting and unintentional slumlords.”
Former DMC CEO Arthur Porter arrested in Panama on charges tied to $22.5M in kickbacks
Porter’s meteoric rise from the war-torn country of Sierra Leone to the center of Canada’s business and political establishment is nothing short of spectacular and tragic.