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Tag: Robert Ficano (page 4)

The Fix Is In

By Corinthian Scales, Section News
Posted on Fri Nov 04, 2011 at 10:44:45 AM EST
Tags: Turkia Awada Mullin, Robert Ficano, Azzam Elder, Marianne Talon, Tim Taylor, The Ed McNamara Machine, Michigan Democratic Party, Wayne County Corruption Lives On, Affirmative Action Meets The Peter Principle, John Rakolta Jr, AG Bill Shuette, Mitt Romney (all tags)

Ya Ficano, that Republican ought to appease Osama Siblani for axing Elder.

A little trip back to 2008, Scott Lewis?

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Troubles Ahead For The Michigan Romney Campaign?

By Corinthian Scales, Section News
Posted on Fri Nov 04, 2011 at 12:41:34 AM EST
Tags: Turkia Awada Mullin, Robert Ficano, Azzam Elder, Marianne Talon, Tim Taylor, The Ed McNamara Machine, Michigan Democratic Party, Wayne County Corruption Lives On, Affirmative Action Meets The Peter Principle, John Rakolta Jr, AG Bill Shuette, Mitt Romney (all tags)

Will the FBI turn up improprieties surrounding Mitt's National Finance Co-Chairmen, John Rakolta?

Could the questions that now surround the Wayne County Business Development Corporation be a factor? Who really knows for sure where this whole mess will lead.

Sure are some strange bedfellows though...

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A Message To Our Legislators - Beware False Choices

Oh noes! "I wuz wronged"

By Corinthian Scales, Section News
Posted on Mon Oct 31, 2011 at 08:56:57 PM EST
Tags: Turkia Awada Mullin, Robert Ficano, Azzam Elder, Marianne Talon, Tim Taylor, The Ed McNamara Machine, Michigan Democratic Party, Wayne County Corruption Lives On, Affirmative Action Meets The Peter Principle (all tags)

Predictably, for every sleazy public official, there stands a sleazy attorney beside them.

Mr. Convertino, the Ficano recall is a nice gesture and all, but your talents would serve our state much better with helping the Feds investigate the ACCESS connected in Wayne County.

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And She's Awada Here!

By Corinthian Scales, Section News
Posted on Mon Oct 31, 2011 at 03:39:28 PM EST
Tags: Turkia Awada Mullin, Robert Ficano, Azzam Elder, Marianne Talon, Tim Taylor, The Ed McNamara Machine, Michigan Democratic Party, Wayne County Corruption Lives On, Affirmative Action Meets The Peter Principle (all tags)

Fired.

Drama erupts at special Airport Board meeting where the Airport Board has voted to terminate CEO Turkia Mullin.
The resolution is effective immediately. Each member of the board had a vote on the resolution. Only two members of the board voted against the resolution.
The board has appointed Chief Financial Officer Tom Naughton as the interim CEO. The measure passed 6 to 1, with only Bernard Parker voting against the measure.

Rest here

Now prosecute. All of them.

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Ficano Served, Retains Monica Conyers Mouthpiece

By Corinthian Scales, Section News
Posted on Wed Oct 19, 2011 at 04:37:40 PM EST
Tags: Turkia Mullin, Robert Ficano, Azzam Elder, Marianne Talon, Tim Taylor, The Ed McNamara Machine, Michigan Democratic Party, Wayne County Corruption Lives On, Affirmative Action Meets The Peter Principle (all tags)

Three teams of FBI agents entered Wayne County government offices in Detroit this afternoon to serve subpoenas for county records.
The agents' presence comes as County Executive Robert Ficano has retained prominent criminal defense lawyer Steve Fishman to represent him in the FBI probe into a $200,000 severance paid to former county economic development director Turkia Awada Mullin.

Rest here

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FBI: Federal Probe Of Ficano Underway

By Corinthian Scales, Section News
Posted on Tue Oct 18, 2011 at 11:58:51 PM EST
Tags: Turkia Mullin, Robert Ficano, Azzam Elder, Marianne Talon, Tim Taylor, The Ed McNamara Machine, Michigan Democratic Party, Wayne County Corruption Lives On, Affirmative Action Meets The Peter Principle (all tags)

It's the same kind of non-profit that tripped up former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. A federal grand jury indicted Kilpatrick for using his fund like a personal piggy bank.

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Ficano Suspends Azzam While AG Schuette Plays Shazam

By Corinthian Scales, Section News
Posted on Tue Oct 18, 2011 at 01:41:55 AM EST
Tags: Turkia Mullin, Robert Ficano, Investigating... HIMSELF, The Ed McNamara Machine, Michigan Democratic Party, Wayne County Corruption Lives On, Affirmative Action Meets The Peter Principle (all tags)

Now, why in the world is Granholms' Aerotropolis stooge, Azzam Elder, the husband of 3rd Circuit Court Judge Charlene Elder (a Granholm appointment) doing a clandestine "touchy-feely" meeting with Turkia Awada Mullin in an Expedition in a Dearborn parking lot?

Hello? Anyone home, AG? Take a break from chasing clown color hippies, this needs your attention.

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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.

Rest here

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