detroit corruption

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan said he never knew the towing contractor who bribed former City Council member Andre Spivey was also a confidential informant. He said he only told others the contractor's identity because the city was acting in parallel to purge corrupt towers.

Andre Spivey pleaded guilty to accepting more than $35,000 in bribes. The bribes came from a confidential source in Detroit’s towing industry, and undercover federal agents.

In a plea agreement with federal prosecutors, former U of M violin professor Stephen Shipps pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of transporting a minor across state lines with intent to engage in sexual activity. Also on Tuesday, former Detroit police officer Alonzo Jones pleaded guilty to taking more than $3,000 in bribes, in yet another case of corruption involving the city’s towing industry.

DETROIT - A three-judge panel will hear former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's appeal for a new trial. Documents show oral arguments are scheduled for…

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s co-defendent and city contractor Bobby Ferguson was sentenced to 21 years in prison today after being convicted on…

DETROIT (AP) - The ex-technology chief for Detroit's public libraries and two former business contractors are charged in a $1.4 million bribe and kickback…

DETROIT (AP) - Ex-convict and ex-Detroit City Council member Monica Conyers is working at an auto body shop while serving the remainder of her federal…

DETROIT (AP) - Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is behind bars for the weekend for violating parole in a 2008 conviction that bounced him from…

A judge says the names and hometowns of jurors will only be known by lawyers in the upcoming corruption trial of former Detroit Mayor Kwame…

At 6:30 AM Tuesday, former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick will once again be a free man. A judge sentenced Kilpatrick to prison for a probation violation…