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    Who are the NERD fund donors Mr Snyder?

    Raise the curtain.

    Sweet Deals Are Made Of These


    By Corinthian Scales, Section News
    Posted on Thu Oct 13, 2011 at 08:50:15 AM EST
    Tags: Turkia Mullin, Robert Ficano, Investigating... HIMSELF, Michigan Democratic Party, Wayne County Corruption Lives On, Affirmative Action Meets The Peter Principle (all tags)

    Skin of the Wayne County onion continues to peel.

    A board member of the Detroit Metropolitan Airport authority who voted to appoint Turkia Mullin as its CEO made $420,000 just weeks earlier from a land sale she helped engineer, records obtained by The Detroit News show.

    Charlie J. Williams, a former Wayne County deputy executive, worked as facilitator and mediator in a $14 million sale of a parking lot for a new county jail downtown. The deal -- which Mullin signed off on as the county's chief development officer -- paid him a 3 percent commission.

    Two weeks after the sale was completed on July 14, Williams voted to hire Mullin for the airport job that pays $250,000 a year. He also was one of three members of a search committee that recommended her for the job above four finalists with airport management experience.

    "If you were in on the interview process, you would've hired her too if you saw how dynamic she was," said Williams, a former appointee of county Executive Robert Ficano, who named him to the airport board in 2006.

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    committee hearing on this (none / 0) (#1)
    by Tom McMillin on Thu Oct 13, 2011 at 11:55:15 PM EST
    My Oversight, Reform and Ethics committee is scheduled to take up Detroit Dem. State Rep. John Olumba's House Resolution asking the Attorney General to look into this:

    http://legislature.mi.gov/doc.aspx?CommitteeMeetings

    Committee Oversight, Reform, and Ethics

    Location 326 House Office Building, Lansing, MI
    Date Tuesday, 10/18/2011
    Time 12:00 PM
    Agenda Michigan State Housing Development Authority (Department of Treasury) Testimony on Performance Audit # 641-0210-09 (September 2011) of Community Development and Revitalization Programs.

    HR 139 (Olumba) A resolution requesting that the Attorney General begin an investigation into the Office of the Wayne County Executive and other entities related to the severance payment scandal to determine if any misconduct or malfeasance occurred.
    Chair Representative Tom McMillin


    My only concern... (none / 0) (#5)
    by jgillmanjr on Sat Oct 15, 2011 at 12:21:16 PM EST
    Is a little bit of case law called Wickard v. Filburn.

    Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if someone challenges the law based on that. It would be bullshit, but it wouldn't surprise me.

    Filburn - one of the greatest assaults on 10th Amendment rights ever. Ef you very much FDR.

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