Federal prosecutors probing Detroit’s demolition program have issued grand jury subpoenas to contractors for records they’ve received from Mayor Mike Duggan’s office and city and state agencies. The subpoenas, obtained first by Motor City Muckraker, seek documents from at least three demolition contractors as part of an FBI investigation that began in August 2015. A […]
The legal bills continue to rise to defend the Detroit Land Bank, which is under a federal investigation.
The Land Bank is paying one attorney $760 an hour.
A long-time ally and friend of Mayor Duggan has resigned amid a federal investigation into the city’s demolition program.
Sometimes civil disobedience works.
The Detroit Land Bank will spend up to $760 an hour for outside legal counsel during the federal investigation into the city’s massive demolition program.
When asked about hiring two outside law firms, including pricey powerhouse WilmerHale, city officials have clamped up.
The probe centers around the rising costs of demolitions and questions about whether Duggan and other city officials schemed to award contracts to preferred companies.
Federal investigators are probing questionable contracts doled out by Mayor Mike Duggan’s demolition program over the past two years.
The city of Detroit released an impressive interactive map and database that show all 7,740 demolitions, how much each cost and who received the contracts since Mayor Mike Duggan took office in January 2014.