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DAILY
BRIEFS
Herstein re-elected
secretary of Supreme
Court historical board
Carl W. Herstein,
a partner in Honigman Miller Schwartz
and Cohn LLP’s
Real Estate Department, again has been
elected Secretary of
the Board of DirecMichigan
tors,
Supreme Court Historical Society. Herstein was elected to
the organization’s
Board in 2004, elected to Secretary in
Carl W.
2006 and has been
Herstein
re-elected to the
position in each succeeding year.
Herstein’s law practice focuses on real estate,
real estate finance and real estate tax appeals,
interest/usury and equine law. He currently
serves on the University Musical Society Board
of Directors, of which he is the immediate past
Chair. His professional accolades include notation in The Best Lawyers in America (20082009), Michigan Super Lawyers (2007-2009)
and Who’s Who in American Law.
He received a J.D. from the Yale Law School
and a B.A. in Political Science and History from
the University of Michigan.
The Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society is a non profit corporation, which collects,
preserves and displays documents, records and
memorabilia relating to the study of the Michigan Supreme Court and other courts of Michigan
to increase awareness of Michigan’s legal heritage. For more information visit micourthistory.org.
Deputy convicted,
demoted to jail duty
MOUNT CLEMENS (AP) — A Macomb
County sheriff ’s deputy who was accused of
drunken driving, resisting arrest and possession
of marijuana has been demoted but not fired
after he pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors.
Former Lt. Joseph Guzdziol will start his new
position as a turnkey in the county jail on Saturday. He will lose about $50,000 annually in
salary but will continue to build his pension.
Guzdziol was charged with drunken driving,
resisting arrest, child endangerment and marijuana possession after a Feb. 20 incident in Bay
County. He pleaded guilty to lesser charges.
Sheriff Mark Hackel says demoting Guzdziol
was one of the toughest things he’s had to do as
sheriff. Hackel says Guzdziol has had “an impeccable career.”
Man pleads guilty
to poaching fish
GRAND RAPIDS (AP) — A man has pleaded guilty to illegally taking a 5-foot sturgeon
from the Grand River in Grand Rapids.
Thirty-year-old Secilio David Cantu admitted
Thursday in district court he knew the fish was a
sturgeon when he poached it in mid-May.
A sentencing date was not set. Cantu faces 30
to 180 days in jail, fines of up to $2,000 and
other penalties.
The lake sturgeon is a protected species in
Michigan.
The state Department of Natural Resources
says the Grand Rapids man hooked the fish in
the tail and dragged it to a waiting truck driven
by his father. Onlookers took cell phone pictures
and called out to him to return the fish.
Cantu turned himself in after seeing his picture was being circulated by the media and
online. He declined to comment Thursday.
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Friday, July 10, 2009
75 Cents
Attorney sees opportunities in field of entertainment law
BY MIKE SCOTT
Legal News
From public defender to lawyer to the stars,
Howard Hertz has become perhaps one of the
most accomplished and experienced entertainment law experts in Michigan.
Now Hertz is hoping that the incentives the
state legislature gave to filmmakers last year
will continue to be offered in the wake of debate
over whether the credits should still be offered.
Hertz’s experience in entertainment law is
significant. He and partner Bradley Schram
established the Bloomfield Hills-based law firm
of Hertz Schram, P.C. in 1979. The firm provides legal services in a wide variety of specialties, although practically all of Hertz’s practice
is the in entertainment field.
Since 1976 Hertz has represented numerous
artists and entities in entertainment, including
authors, screenwriters, recording artists, radio
personalities, producers, production companies,
record labels, agents, artist managers, music
publishers, songwriters and athletes. Among
others, his most well-known clients have included George Clinton, Sippie Wallace, The Romantics, The Bass Brothers, Eminem, Marilyn Manson, Russell Simmons, O-Town, Pantera, The
GO, Elmore Leonard, Warner Tamerlane and
Atlantic Records.
Hertz’s start in the specialty field came about
in an innocuous way. He was working as a public defender for the city of Detroit, fresh out of
law school at Wayne State University, working
on armed robbery and other criminal cases.
That’s when local singer and songwriter Ted
Strunck was offered a publishing contract and
was referred to Hertz through a mutual friend.
Strunck gave Hertz the book This Business of
Music by M. William Krasilovsky. As the only
lawyer he knew, Strunck suggested to Hertz that
he could use the book as a resource to help the
Lunch
Date
Over the years,
Southfield attorney
Harvey Heller has
amassed a premiere
collection of 110 antique
lunchboxes that
span four decades of
pop culture.
See his story on
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performer negotiate a fair contract.
“It’s not something I had anticipated getting
into but I had always had this interest in music,
whether singing or strumming the guitar,” Hertz
said. “At that time I didn’t even know there was
something known as entertainment law and in
reality it was a pretty new (practice).”
So Hertz began educating himself more
about the field. He took classes through the
Practicing Law Institute in New York City and
began working with some local brands, helping
them to finalize contracts and negotiate terms.
During the time when Hertz was establishing
an entertainment law specialty, he discussed
opening a firm with Schram, who was then
working for the Wayne County Prosecutor’s
Office. Schram had a personal interest in film
and television scriptwriting and developed a
friendship with the novelist and screenwriter
Elmore Leonard. While still working as a prosecuting attorney, he invited Leonard to Detroit to
tour the office and learn more about the law
enforcement and legal systems during a time
when Leonard was interested in changing genres
from westerns to crime dramas.
Schram introduced Leonard to his new law
partner. And around this time Hertz began doing
legal work for Joel Martin, the publisher that
first offered Strunck a contract. Over time, Martin became an influential producer and manager
in the music business, and remains a client. The
rest is history.
“It wasn’t long before I started doing work
for Leonard and he has been with us for the last
30 years,” Hertz said.
For years much of his entertainment law
work has been focused in the music industry.
He attends MIDEM, the international music
festival in Cannes, France, each year that
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Eye on the Blogosphere
Would you like some ointment for that burn?
BY TARYN HARTMAN
Legal News
It’s killing me not to
write about Michael Jackson
this week. It would be so
easy, given my unbridled
passion for the King of Pop
and because the story has so
dominated the continuous
news cycle that the blogosphere has helped create. But
in the interest of not contributing to the “problem” of overcoverage that
many are complaining about, I’ll guess I’ll just
say this: the story of Michael Jackson’s death is
all the proof we need that the Internet really has
changed everything. From the fact that celebrity
gossip site TMZ.com broke the story to the
never-ending, constantly updating stream of
information on blogs and Web sites — a sea so
deep that I’ve only waded in up to my ankles
when it comes to sifting through which outlet or
writer is saying what — to the fact that Tuesday’s memorial service was streamed live over
the Web likely to millions in addition to the 31
million TV viewers Nielsen is reporting, what
we know (and in many cases, don’t know and
choose to speculate on instead) and when we
know it are definitely never going to be the
same. I was a sixth-grader watching a Saturday
night rerun of “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman”
when a ticker crawled across the screen informing me that Princess Diana had been in a car
accident, and the newspaper headlines the next
morning read, “Crash Kills Diana.” When
Michael Jackson died, I found out via text message.
Furthermore, the advent of online social networking sites has turned us into a worldwide
community of grievers connected through highspeed, wireless and mobile internet connections.
Who’s to say that the death of Elvis thirty years
ago wouldn’t have elicited the same kind of
response as MJ’s passing were there countless
cable news outlets and Web sites to cover it and
the technology available to let his fans around
the world share their grief over Twitter and Facebook?
But now it’s time to get down to business. Do
you “remember the time” (from 1991’s Dangerous) when Lowering the Bar (www.loweringthe-
bar.net/) informed us of a court decision ruling
that Crunchberries weren’t actually a fruit?
Hang on, give me a minute…the devastation is
washing back over me. Well, they’re back to
burst our bubble again, this time with the news
that you aren’t entitled to sue anybody if you
suffer burns at a place called — wait for it —
BURNING MAN.
“Trying to explain what Burning Man is to
someone who has never been to the event is a bit
like trying to explain what a particular color
looks like to someone who is blind,” reads the
Web site (www.burningman.com/whatisburningman/) for the annual festival in Nevada’s
Black Rock Desert. The basic concept is this:
each year, close to 50,000 people descend on the
usually desolate area and build a makeshift city
housing the week-long festival of whatever-youmake-of-it, an “experimental community which
challenges its members to express themselves
and rely on themselves to a degree that is not
normally encountered in one’s day-to-day life.
“There are no rules about how one must
behave or express oneself at this event (save the
rules that serve to protect the health, safety, and
experience of the community at large); rather, it
is up to each participant to decide how they will
contribute and what they will give to this community,” the site reads. Near the end of the festival, a 60-foot tall wooden statue (the Burning
Man) is set on fire and burns until it collapses
into a big bonfire, and this is where Anthony
Beninati ran into trouble.
You see, as Lowering the Bar explains,
according to Beninati’s complaint, “He walked
around the bonf ire three times, each time
‘circl[ing] a little closer to the fire.’ Eventually,
he walked still closer, into what was variously
described as an area of ‘embers,’ ‘low flames,’
‘burning remnants,’ and ‘a spot where there was
fire on either side of him.’ Basically, he had
walked inside a huge bonfire. Then, as you
might have expected, he tripped on something
and fell into the actual fiery part of the bonfire,
burning his hand.”
So he did what’s becoming more and more
common in our society when it comes to shifting the blame for one’s own moronic behavior
elsewhere: he sued. As defendants, the festival
organizers argued Beninati could not file his suit
under the “primary assumption of the risk” doctrine, which “bars negligence claims by some-
one who was hurt while participating in an
activity ‘involving an inherent risk of injury to
voluntary participants . . ., where the risk cannot
be eliminated without altering the fundamental
nature of the activity,’” Lowering the Bar writes.
The post continues, “In his deposition, Beninati admitted he knew ‘fire was dangerous and
caused burns’ before he walked into one. He
knew there was some possibility of falling into
said fire. He admitted no one affiliated with the
defendants asked him to walk into the fire or
told him it would be safe to do so. But he testified that he did not think it would be dangerous
to walk into the fire, although he knew it ‘was
not ‘absolutely safe, because there [was] a fire
present.’ And, as noted, fire is hot.”
The California Court of Appeals agreed in a
decision that’s important because it marks the
first time it’s applied the primary assumption of
risk doctrine to something other than a sport,
“unless you think ‘recreational dancing’ and
being pulled behind a boat on an inner tube are
‘sports.’” Lowering the Bar snarks.
Ouch…burn.
After greeting jurors, Chief Judge
Marylin E. Atkins (second from left)
visits with Jury Depar tment staff
Eileen Foley Schumaker, Karen Woolfolk and Carol Michalak Duff.
36th District
Court marks
juror’s month
The 36th District Court is celebrating
Juror Appreciation Month during the month
of July to recognize city of Detroit residents
who have completed jury duty and to highlight the honor and importance of serving on
a jury.
Throughout the month activities will
include airing of the court’s jury service
video, “Jurors in Paradise,” and the recently
released production, “36th District Court:
Justice for All” as well as a variety of documentaries and musical performances provided by The Detroit Public Library.
In addition to light morning refreshments,
jurors will receive a copy of the resolution
issued by the Michigan Supreme Court,
bookmarks imprinted with a juror appreciation message and Certificates of Appreciation. They will also receive visitdetroit bags
filled with visitdetroit magazines, maps and
DET bumper stickers, provided by the
Detroit Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau.
Station to Station Guides that highlight great
destinations in downtown Detroit along the
Detroit People Mover route are also being
provided to jurors by The Detroit People
Mover, a Detroit Transportation Corporation.
New to this year’s observance is the Tour
Ren Cen guide, inviting jurors to join in for a
complimentary walking tour of the landmark
GM Renaissance Center.
According to Chief Judge Marylin E.
Atkins, the objective of Juror Appreciation
Month is to show past and prospective jurors
that their contributions are greatly appreciated by the Court. A member of the bench
greets the jurors daily and thanks them for
serving.
“Jury service is a vital aspect of our government,” said Judge Atkins. “When you
serve as juror, you not only serve your country, but you serve as an integral part of the
justice system.
“We want every juror to feel appreciated
and to know how much we value their time
and commitment to our system of justice,”
Atkins continued. “We would also like to
thank the many private companies, government agencies, small businesses, school districts, and all those who encourage and support their employees when they are called to
jury service.
“We depend on your service — thank you
for doing your duty!”
Clark Hill Cares
Greg Moore and more than
200 other Clark Hill PLC
employees volunteered
June 27 to sort and pack food
at Gleaners Community Food
bank and partner locations
near the firm’s offices in three
Michigan communities
(Detroit, Grand Rapids and
Lansing), as well as Chicago
and Phoenix. While the
firm has supported many
community organizations in
the past, this companywide initiative was the
first formal community project
orchestrated under the firm’s
new “Clark Hill Cares” banner.
For more photos from the
event see page 51.
Photo courtesy of Tanner Friedman
Official Newspaper: City of Detroit • Wayne Circuit Court • U.S. District Court • U.S. Bankruptcy Court
■ Taking Stock
■ Commentary
■ Book Case
Berko recommends replacing
Geitner with midwesterner
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The untaught law of
unexpected consequences
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Review of ‘Three Felonies,’ an
indictment against the Justice Dept.
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Taking Stock
MALCOLM BERKO
Solid midwesterner needed
to balance Obama’s books
Dear Mr. Berko:
I understand that you are
uncomfortable with the Obama
administration’s handling of this
financial crisis. What changes
would you recommend to put our
economy back on track? This is
not a trick question, rather other
readers and I would appreciate
your point of view. Are you in
the Rush Limbaugh camp? Do
you agree with Rush, who wants
President Barack Obama’s policies to fail?
G.G., Oklahoma City
Dear G.G.:
Please understand that Rush
Limbaugh is neither an economist nor a financial impresario.
He’s a fantastic entertainer who
would probably win every vote
on “American Idol.” And I don’t
believe, for even a minute, that
Rush wants Obama’s policies to
fail. Rush is not vindictive and he
doesn’t wish economic failure on
310 million Americans. His job
is to sell advertising for the radio
stations that broadcast his program and he’s doing yeoman’s
work.
There are simple solutions to
most complicated problems concerning government policies.
However, the solutions are complicated by thousands of sniveling lobbyists who deluge billions
of dollars of bribe money on
members of Congress to favor
the smirking fat cats who employ
them. It was L. William Seidman, former chairman of the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.,
who said: “Lobbyists are the poison of America’s middle class.”
Because we’re prohibited from
shooting lobbyists, I suggest that
the administration demand each
lobbyist wear a Nazi armband
and a red swastika on his lapel.
Solving our economic problems is made even more complicated because Democrats and
Republicans practice politics like
the Hatfields and McCoys. Just
imagine what we could accomplish if Congress banished political parties.
One TRILLION dollars, a
whole number followed by 12
zeros, has been bequeathed by
the administration to purchase
“toxic” assets from our financial
institutions. That’s wrong! A second $1 TRILLION of largess
was bestowed upon the banks,
insurance companies, and the
auto and brokerage industry so
they can meet their f inancial
obligations. That’s wrong! Every
penny, peso and pound of this $2
trillion (more TRILLIONS to
come later) is euchred from the
pockets of every American taxpayer.
Most of those TRILLIONS
(giveaway dollars) belong to
Americans who lost homes to
foreclosure due to unprincipled
lenders and to Americans who
don’t have money for health
insurance because of fraud, greed
and waste in our medical system.
This money is usurped from
Americans who can’t make credit
card payments due to unscrupulous bank practices and from
Americans who purchased
Detroit’s cars that implode three
years later.
Finally, this money belongs to
Americans who lost TRILLIONS
in their retirement accounts due
to the criminal activities and
marauding greed of Merrill
Lynch, Goldman Saks, Lehman
Brothers and Bear Stearns. This
money doesn’t belong to Bank of
America, GM, Merrill Lynch,
AIG or Countrywide Mortgage.
It’s our money, and there’s not a
single snippet of personal
responsibility attached to its taking by corporate America. History books will refer to this event
as the “slickest train robbery in
the history of the world.”
It’s so easy to spend money
when it doesn’t belong to you.
Everybody complains about the
solutions but few offer a better
solution. Well here is a better
solution.
Congress goofed big time
handing out $1 billion checks
like cheese samples on toothpicks at Costco! I’d insist that the
executives of companies receiving bailout bucks personally sign
an enforceable IOU for their prorata share of the largess. They too
should be on the hook. I would
insist that members of the
respective corporate boards sign
identical IOUs. Then I would get
rid of Treasury Secretary Timmy
“The Giveaway Kid” Geithner, a
Brooklyn boy who got his doctorate from Dartmouth, one of
those amnesia-inducing Ivy
League schools. I would replace
him with Thomas M. Hoenig, a
Midwest lad born in Fort Madison, Iowa. Hoenig earned his
doctorate at Iowa State University. He’s a financial conservative
and president of the Kansas City
Federal Reserve Bank, the second largest in the United States
next to the San Francisco Federal
Reserve Bank.
If this were done, I believe the
Dow Jones industrial averages
would be making new highs
today.
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Please address your financial
questions to Malcolm Berko, P.O.
Box 1416, Boca Raton, FL 33429
or e-mail him at malber@comcast.net. Visit Creators Syndicate
Web site at www.creators.com.
© 2009 Creators Syndicate Inc.
FRIDAY, JULY 10, 2009
Business & Economy
THE INFLUENCE GAME
Business, health split starting to form
Sharp divisions emerging over how to achieve health care reform
BY ALAN FRAM
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Health care providers have been
crowing in recent days about deals
they’ve cut with lawmakers to help
pay for President Barack Obama’s
health care overhaul. Those agreements have been announced in
flashy White House ceremonies —
but off camera and quietly, business lobbyists have been stewing.
Their concern: The many billions in savings health providers
are promising will ultimately come
from the pockets of the nation’s
employers, who are already drowning in medical costs.
The growing divide underlines
that while almost every group in
Washington says it favors health
care reform, sharp divisions
emerge over how to achieve it. The
chasm also fractures the overall
business community, making it
harder for opponents of an over-
includes more than 10,000 industry professionals. The festival is
created to help these professionals
network and build business with
others.
In 1995 Martin signed a young
Detroit performer named Marshall Mathers to a record contract.
The rapper, now known as
Eminem, has also been a client of
Hertz’s for the last 14 years.
Over time, Hertz has expanded
his practice to include legal work
for non-musical performers as
well. The majority of his legal
work falls into one of three areas:
contract negotiations, litigation
work such as copyright and settlements for artist fees and networking activities.
As a networker, Hertz helps to
get interest in his clients’ talents,
helps to introduce them to other
industry insiders and promotes his
clients to industry executives.
“Much of my networking
group involves taking projects to
the next level,” Hertz said. “A lot
of my role is similar to what an
agent can provide.”
Three years ago, when the state
first began investigating how to
attract f ilmmakers, Hertz was
tapped by Gov. Jennifer Granholm
to serve on the Michigan Film
Advisory Commission. He was
closely involved in the initial discussions on how to create tax
years. Even if the deals survive,
business groups say, hospitals and
drug companies may find ways to
shift the costs to the country’s private employers, who provide most
Americans with health care coverage.
“We as private payers are first
in line to take increased costs as
hospitals and others who are playing ‘Let’s Make a Deal’ try to
make up these costs,” said E. Neil
Trautwein, chief health care lobbyist for the National Retail Federation, umbrella group for the
nation’s retail industry. “So we are
not a fan of these backroom deals.”
Health insurance premiums
grew by 78 percent between 2001
and 2007, far higher than the 19
percent growth in wages during
that period, according to the private Kaiser Family Foundation.
Companies providing medical coverage paid health care expenses
that were typically 11 percent the
size of their payrolls in 2005, up
Prosecutors recommend sentence of 145 years
BY LARRY NEUMEISTER
NEW YORK (AP) — A prominent lawyer who prosecutors say
should spend 145 years behind bars
for a giant fraud says envy of more
successful colleagues and clients
fueled a mid-life ambitious crusade
to build prestige and wealth by
stealing hundreds of millions of
dollars.
“I lost my perspective and my
moral grounding, and, really, in a
sense, I just lost my mind,” 59year-old Marc Dreier told U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in an unusually blunt letter made public
Wednesday.
Rakoff is scheduled to sentence
the one-time high flying lawyer on
Monday after he admitted losing
more than $400 million by bilking
hedge funds with bogus claims of
investments safely placed with
clients he had once represented.
Dreier said in his letter that he
started his firm, Dreier LLP, in
1996 when he became envious that
“colleagues of mine and certainly
clients of mine were doing much
better financially and seemingly
enjoying more status.”
Dreier’s December arrest forced
the closure of his firm with 250
attorneys and a roster of clients that
Hertz: Tax incentives should remain fixed
incentives that could help bring
these movies to Michigan.
Over the course of the next two
years, he worked with legislative
aides to try and get the bills
through committee and to the
state House and Senate floors.
“It happened pretty quickly in
that we were able to accomplish
quite a bit in the (first 15 months)
now that the incentives have been
in place,” Hertz said.
But to ensure that the f ilm
industry’s presence in Michigan
grows, it is imperative that some
onsite studios open, Hertz said.
That’s when Hollywood will recognize that the Michigan opportunity is a long-term one. It is one
of the topics that Hertz works on
with Wayne County, one of his
f irm’s clients. The county is
attempting to attract more filmmakers to the region.
“That’s when you will see
more commitment to making
movies here and when you’ll see
more of the (big budget) movies
being made here,” Hertz said. “It
will take some time to build the
infrastructure that we need.”
Hertz opposes rolling back
some of the tax incentives that
have helped to attract filmmakers
and studios to the state. He wants
the incentives to remain fixed for
at least five years, by which time
the movie industry in Michigan
could grow to be more than $1
billion.
haul to form broad coalitions that
might defeat it, such as the largely
united business front that doomed
President Bill Clinton’s drive to
remake the medical system in the
early 1990s.
Three major hospital groups
agreed with White House officials
and Senate Finance Committee
leaders this week to accept $155
billion in reduced Medicare and
Medicaid payments over the coming decade. The deal would allow
hospitals to limit the damage to
their budgets. Two weeks ago, the
nation’s drug producers agreed to
swallow $80 billion in savings,
largely by reducing the prices they
charge for some Medicare prescriptions. People following the
health care debate say a deal with
doctors groups may be next.
There are no guarantees these
agreements will emerge intact as
Congress labors to send Obama a
health system overhaul that could
cost $1 trillion over the next 10
Once-prominent lawyer blames
envy for $400 million fraud
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“Putting a cap on the incentives would kill this,” Hertz said.
“Yes the incentives cost the state
money from the coffers but the
money is coming back to our residents in terms of new jobs. And
not only has it contributed financially to the state but it has helped
our collective (psyche) during a
very tough economic time.”
And there should be opportunities for lawyers to grow an entertainment practice here in the state.
Hertz said lawyers should get
educated on the intricacies of
entertainment law. Existing entertainment lawyers, working with
such agencies as the Michigan
Film Office, need to continue promoting the state to studio and production companies scattered
throughout the country.
“There are so many benefits to
hiring lawyers from the state,”
Hertz said. ”First our hourly rates
are generally less expensive
across the board than lawyers in
New York and Los Angeles. Second they get the double benefit
because some of these legal fees
would qualify for tax incentives
under state law,” he added.
Already law f irms can help
Michigan-based production companies find the funding they need
to develop a project within the
state, Hertz said.
“There are and will be opportunities but we need to keep (the
incentives) going,” Hertz said.
included celebrities, including
retired football star Michael Strahan and former News Corp. publishing executive Judith Regan.
Prosecutors urged the judge to
sentence the Harvard and Yaletrained attorney to 145 years in
prison while Dreier’s defense
lawyer, Gerald Shargel, said
between 10 and 12 1/2 years in
prison was a fair punishment.
“Dreier could have pursued a
rewarding and productive life as a
lawyer, serving clients and the law,
with compensation in the top few
percent of the general population,”
prosecutors said.
“Instead, Dreier decided to seek
vast personal riches and prestige
through a life of fraud and through
dishonor to his profession,” they
wrote.
In his letter dated Tuesday and
filed with the court Wednesday,
Dreier said he suffers “every day
from the shame and self-loathing
and regret with which I will always
have to live.”
“I expect and deserve a significant prison sentence,” he wrote. He
said he asked his lawyers to file his
letter in the public record “in the
hope that it may do some good as a
warning to others not to follow in
my path.”
“I will always be remembered as
a thief,” Dreier wrote. “I have lost
my past and my future. I have lost
everything a man can lose. And
now I will lose my freedom as well,
and rightly so.”
Prosecutors noted that Rakoff
has already said Dreier should be
“ranked with those who have committed some of the most egregious
frauds in history.”
Last week, disgraced money
manager Bernard Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison after
admitting he carried on a Ponzi
scheme for at least two decades
that cost thousands of investors
tens of billions of dollars.
Dreier, who remains under
house arrest, carried out his fraud
over a seven-year period by distributing phony client and accounting
firm documents to his customers
and by impersonating clients in
person and on the phone and
recruiting others to join his charades, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors say Dreier lost more
than $400 million as he fraudulently obtained as much as $740 million through deceit.
They said he committed the
fraud “simply to satisfy his own
greed and vanity” and they noted
his accumulation of numerous
expensive assets. Those assets
included millions of dollars in artwork, beachfront homes on both
coasts and an $18.5 million yacht.
A court-appointed receiver said
Dreier had little cash left when he
was arrested in early December.
Dreier said in his letter that he
started stealing in 2002 when he
felt overwhelmed by debts, a disappointing career and a failed marriage.
“As I sit here today, I can’t
remember or imagine why I didn’t
stop myself,” he wrote. “It all
seems so obviously deplorable now.
I recall only that I was desperate
for some measure of the success
that I felt had eluded me.”
He added: “I lost myself to my
ambition and sacrificed everything
else.”
Shargel said a sentence should
be rational and proportionate.
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from 8 percent in 2000, the group
said.
While agreeing that reducing
health costs is essential for companies, business groups like
Trautwein’s have been critical of
the effort to reshape health care.
They have explicitly opposed some
key Democratic tenets such as creating a government-run insurance
plan and requiring employers to
provide medical coverage for their
workers.
In interviews, leaders of health
industry groups say their agreements with lawmakers would help
the business community.
“Part of our goal is to achieve
health care reform that makes
health care more affordable for
employers,” said Billy Tauzin, head
of the Pharmaceutical Research
and Manufacturers of America,
whose deal was announced June
22. He said while there are “no
guarantees about future inflation,
no guarantees about the future
economies our country will go
through,” economic models show
making the health care system
more efficient “will save you dramatically over the long term.”
Rich Umbdenstock, president
of the American Hospital Association, said health overhaul is aimed
at covering more people, thus
reducing the costs that hospitals
pass on for care of uninsured and
underinsured patients. It also
would create a new pool of insured
— and a potential source of
income. But he cautioned that
reimbursements hospitals receive
for treating Medicaid and
Medicare recipients — people 65
and over, the poor and the disabled
— remain too low.
“We’re all concerned about cost
shifts and the burden that places on
the private sector,” he said.
None of that is enough for
many business groups, large and
small.
Maureen Davenport, spokeswoman for the National Association of Manufacturers, said her
group was watching the health
industry’s emerging agreements
with an eye to money.
“We would be concerned with
anything that would raise the cost
for manufacturers,” she said.
Also leery is John Satagaj, president of the Small Business Legislative Council, which represents
about 60 small business trade
groups such as florists. He said he
cannot tell how the savings that
health groups have agreed to
would be enforced.
“I don’t know where the pressure points are yet to make sure we
control the entire system” of
reducing health costs, he said. If
there’s no way to ensure that the
health industry bears the cost of
the savings, “where you go is who
is left to pay for it. If it’s not individuals and not the government,
it’s going to be business.”
Citigroup shuffles top execs,
chair/former CFO leaving
Bank received $45B in government aid
BY STEPHEN BERNARD
AP Business Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Citigroup
Inc. said Thursday that its former
chief financial officer and current
chairman of Citi Holdings, Gary
Crittenden, is leaving the company
as part of the bank’s latest shuffling
of management.
Crittenden took over as chairman of newly created Citi Holdings
in March after the New York-based
bank separated some of its riskier
assets from more traditional banking operations, which became
known as Citicorp.
Citigroup has been among the
hardest hit banks by the credit crisis
and ongoing recession. Pressure
has been mounting on the bank and
its CEO, Vikram Pandit, to return
the bank to profitability and stabilize operations.
The bank has received $45 billion in aid from the government
since last fall, part of which is
being converted to a 34 percent
equity stake in the bank.
Crittenden is leaving the compa-
ny to spend more time with his
family and pursue other business
interests, Citigroup said in a statement.
Aside from his departure, Citigroup said Edward Kelly, who had
been serving as CFO since Crittenden switched positions, will
become vice chairman of Citigroup. Kelly will take on responsibilities for strategy and mergers and
acquisitions in the new position.
John Gerspach will assume the
role of CFO, becoming Citigroup’s
third CFO this year. Gerspach previously served as controller and
chief accounting officer at Citigroup.
Also, Citigroup has hired
Eugene McQuade to serve as CEO
of Citibank NA, the company’s
retail banking business. McQuade
most recently served as vice chairman of Merrill Lynch and president
of Merrill Lynch Banks. He left
that position in February, a month
after the New York-based investment bank was acquired by Charlotte, N.C.-based Bank of America
Corp.
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Funny you should say that...
SPENCER FARRIS, THE LEVISON GROUP
One Law we never discussed in law school
There is never any air conditioning in the Levison Towers
Library on the weekend. This is
not really a big problem in the winter time (when there is no heat of
course) but the heat is noticeable
on June weekends. I am stuck in
the library on a holiday weekend,
doing research. For me, the lack of
air conditioning is killer. I would
open a window if they hadn’t been
painted shut years ago. Good thing
— I am having a research problem
that makes me want to jump. Here
on the second floor, I doubt I
would be killed, but am certain the
resultant ankle sprain would put
this research chore on someone
else’s plate. Not that anyone else is
available — my email requests for
help keep coming back with auto
replies from my partners on vacation. As are the law clerks.
Legal research is the enemy of
middle aged lawyers. We think we
know the law, and when it changes,
we have to hit the books. Older
lawyers send clerks, middle aged
lawyers are on our own. It is said
that the term (and loathing)
“activist judges” began when middle aged lawyers noticed that they
change the law we have learned,
forcing us to relearn what we
thought we knew.
My research keeps hitting a
dead end. I can’t understand it,
since examples are everywhere.
My friend Don had a classic case.
Actually, his wife Lola did. Lola
took her kids to shop for Don for
Father’s day. The kids, all under 8,
decided to buy Don the first shiny
thing they saw — a picture of Dale
Earnhardt Junior. Lola chuckled
and made the purchase.
Dale Junior is the son of Dale
Senior, known in NASCAR circles
as “our Racer who art in Heaven.”
Don didn’t know this, however, as
he is not a NASCAR fan. He
opened the picture with great
pride, as a good father would. Then
he put it out on display on the
dresser in his bedroom.
This was two weeks ago. Lola
recently asked when he was going
to take the picture down. Don said
never. “It is a Father’s day gift and
I am going to enjoy it.”
Lola was beside herself at the
glossy insult to her décor, but
utterly powerless. She is a victim
of the Law.
Thousands of Americans pur-
chased new Chrysler and General
Motors vehicles. Some, like me,
made their purchases after it was
clear that these two automakers
would soon be under gubmint protection. We were assured that our
warranties would be honored, and
for GM folk, that the Onstar service would continue even if the
companies did not.
Thousands purchased their
bailout-baby cars well before the
trouble in Detroit was well known.
A few hundred of these drivers
were injured due to alleged flaws
in the cars. Their cases were working their way through the court
system when the “Little Two”
declared bankruptcy. In bankruptcy, lawsuits go out of the civil justice system and into the bankruptcy courts. So, these folk, some
badly burned or otherwise maimed
by the defects, were stalled from
pursuing their lawsuits.
A product liability lawsuit is
expensive to everyone involved.
The Little Two got bankruptcy protection to stop the stream of attorney and expert fees related to litigation. The victims (and their
lawyers, who had footed the litigation bills in return for contingent
attorney fees) lost control of the
lawsuits to the bankruptcy courts.
As unsecured creditors they went
to the back of the line behind suppliers and others with more definable claims. Injury claims would
be liquidated, and since no result in
a lawsuit is guaranteed, they were
effectively worth nothing.
Many of these victims suffered
devastating injuries. If they cannot
hold the automakers responsible
for the damages caused by the dangerous cars, they will undoubtedly
follow them into bankruptcy. If
they haven’t already. And behind
them will be the small law firms
who lent time and money to the
cause. The Law strikes again.
Someone will have to take care
of the injury victims who are
unable to work and support their
families. (The lawyers are on their
own, of course.) This burden
would fall on state governments,
with the burden of higher medical
bills and state aid for defective car
victims shifting to the taxpayers.
Coincidentally, these are the same
taxpayers who were bailing out the
Little Two in the first place. This is
called the trickle down effect of the
Law.
States are a more formidable
foe than severely injured consumers, however. Several state
attorneys general went to bankruptcy court to fight the additional
tax burden. Pretty good idea, since
state revenues are down. GM
agreed to honor product liability
claims made on vehicles sold
before the bankruptcy. No word
yet on Chrysler, but I expect they
will follow suit. Seems the Law
cuts both ways.
One member of the old Big
Three didn’t get a nickel in bail
outs — Ford Motor Company. It
was rewarded for keeping its
financial house in order by getting
to compete in the automobile market without protection from product liability claims. Against the
backdrop of a declining economy,
add this hurdle to Ford’s list. We
can only wonder if they too will
belly up to the gubmint bailout
trough, if only to stay competitive.
Invoking the Law against other
injury victims, and starting the
cycle all over again.
I am pretty sure we never covered this Law in law school. I
missed a few classes, and didn’t
pay attention in some others, but I
have never had any formal training
on the Law of Unintended Consequences. My education, and that of
the automobile makers, injury victims and taxpayers continues. Stay
tuned.
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Under Analysis is a nationally syndicated column of the Levison
Group. Spencer Farris is the
founding partner of The S.E. Farris
Law Firm in St Louis, Missouri.
He drives a big hybrid Tahoe, and
thinks GM would be a different
company if it had sold this vehicle
years ago. Comments or criticisms
about this column may be sent c/o
this newspaper or directly to the
Levison Group via email at comments@levisongroup.com.
One Perspective
LEON DROLET, DIRECTOR, MICHIGAN TAXPAYERS ALLIANCE
Some Detroit leaders providing hope
Sadly, the word “Detroit” is
synonymous with “dysfunction”
thanks to the scandals of Monica
Conyers and former Mayor
Kwame Kilpatrick and the ineptitude of the City Council. But let’s
not let those dark clouds obscure
several bright lights emerging from
the ranks of Detroit’s political leaders.
Detroit Public Schools Emergency Financial Manager Robert
Bobb is the brightest of those
lights. Since being appointed in
March, Mr. Bobb has tackled the
seemingly hopeless disaster that is
the Detroit Public School System
with inspiring vigor.
In just a few months, Bobb has
slashed a $430 million def icit
nearly in half by eliminating bloated staffing and uncovering fraud.
Bobb has cut 181 positions out of
the 231 person curriculum department, terminated half of the district’s assistant superintendents,
the 21
and dumped eleven of
“executive cabinet” members.
Bob hasn’t just juggled num-
bers and laid off unnecessary personnel — he’s aggressively tackled
fraud and corruption. In the past
two weeks, Bobb uncovered over
250 non-existent “ghost workers”
on the payroll and suspended seven
more employees accused of theft
and embezzlement after investigations were initiated under his
watch.
And Mr. Bobb isn’t finished
yet. He plans on privatizing the
district’s transportation services, is
considering additional privatization, and will close 29 schools this
fall.
Cold hearted? Only if one
believes that a school district’s primary job is to employ adults and
coddle unions instead of putting
resources into educating children.
The kids and taxpayers of Detroit
should hail Bobb as a hero.
And Mayor Bing should take
notice. The Mayor started out on
the right foot by rejecting the perk
of the Manoogian Mansion, opting
to rent out the building for the benefit of taxpayers. Bing then sug-
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gested that the City’s grossly inefficient public lighting department
be outsourced, only to back away
when confronted by union intimidation. Let’s hope the Mayor
regains his nerve.
Bing need only to look to the
Wayne County Building downtown
for another example of strong,
responsible fiscal leadership.
Wayne County Executive
Robert Ficano, facing a sizable
deficit, isn’t foisting a tax hike on
suffering citizens like nearby
Macomb County. Instead, he’s
proposing a 20 percent budget cut
- including the layoffs of about 500
county employees and consolidation of two departments. Ficano is
also asking the county’s employees
to accept cuts in wages and benef its to avert 440 more layoffs.
Ficano’s crusade to put Wayne
County’s financial house in order
is good for Detroit.
With Mayor Bing joining
Detroit’s widely-respected City
Clerk Janice Winfrey in City government, there’s hope for ethical
and stable leadership. Now, Mayor,
please take on the City’s sacred
cows. And Robert Bobb’s professionalism, courage and leadership
may finally result in a functional
school district for the City.
Michigan’s next governor
should take notice and bring Mr.
Bobb to Lansing.
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Leon Drolet can be contacted at
leon@mitaxpayer.org or at
www.mitaxpayer.org.
On Point
JARRETT SKORUP, MACKINAC CENTER
FOR
PUBLIC POLICY
Detroit: The triumph of progressive public policy
Imagine a city where all the
major economic planks of the statist or “progressive” platform
have been enacted:
• A “living wage” ordinance,
far above the federal minimum
wage, for all public employees
and private contractors.
• A school system that spends
significantly more per pupil than
the national average.
• A powerful school employee
union that militantly defends the
exceptional pay, benefits and job
security it has won for its members.
• A powerful government
employee union that does the
same for its members.
• A tax system that aggressively redistributes income from businesses and the wealthy to the poor
and to government bureaucracies.
Would this be a shining city on
a hill, exciting the admiration of
all? We don’t have to guess,
because there is such a city right
here in our state: Detroit
Detroit has been dubbed “the
most liberal city in America” and
each of these “progressive” policies is alive and well there. How
have they worked out?
In 1950, Detroit was the
wealthiest city in America on a
per capita income basis. Today,
the Census Bureau reports that it
is the nation’s 2nd poorest major
city, just “edging out” Cleveland.
Could it be pure coincidence
that the decline occurred over the
same period in which union
power, the city government
bureaucracy, taxes and business
regulations all multiplied? While
correlation is not causation, it is
striking that the decline in per
capita income is exactly what
classical economists predict
would occur when wage controls
are imposed and taxes are
increased.
Specif ically, “price theory”
predicts that artificially high business costs caused by excessive
regulation and above-market labor
compensation rates imposed by
so-called “living wages” will lead
to an increase in unemployment.
Detroit’s minimum wage is a
whopping $7.40 an hour, more
than $2 above the federal minimum wage when it was enacted;
and pressure groups are pushing
for more. Additionally, any company contracting with the city
must pay its employees $8.23 an
hour if they offer benef its or
$10.28 an hour if they do not offer
benefits.
Such high wage mandates are
especially hard on individuals
with a poor education and low
skills. If struggling and heavily
taxed businesses cannot pay such
high wages, then they are more
selective about the few workers
they do hire or go out of business
altogether. Those who have promulgated these polices may be
well intentioned, but mainstream
economists have warned for
decades that such policies were
very likely to bring about the
abject poverty and unemployment
that characterize Detroit today.
The city has the highest unemployment rate among all large
U.S. cities. (On a side note,
Michigan is home to eight of the
20 cities overall with the highest
unemployment and has the highest state unemployment in the
country.)
A similar pattern has played
out in public education. It is now
conventional wisdom among the
political class that higher pay for
teachers and increased spending
per student lead to improvements
in teacher quality and student performance. Again, correlation is
not causation, but Detroit Public
Schools strongly suggests that this
theory must be rejected. It has
chronically underperformed state
averages, yet reforms are vehemently opposed by the system’s
powerful school employee union.
At the same time that union,
the Detroit Federation of Teachers, has won rich salary and benef its packages for its members.
Median compensation for a DPS
teacher is $76,000 and Detroit
spends the third highest amount
of money per student among 76
large cities nationwide. Statewide,
Detroit’s spending per pupil is in
the 91st percentile and DPS
teachers are paid at the 96th percentile. For all that, by almost any
measure Detroit schools have for
decades failed their students: test
scores, safety, drop out rates, etc.
For example, Detroit’s public
school students perform at the 3rd
percentile in the state — that is,
they are in the lowest 3 percent,
and the district is in its second
state takeover in a decade.
In the private sector such failure would result in mass firings
for unsatisfactory performance.
No doubt such a response would
be condemned by the progressives
who support the school employee
unions that have made similar
actions impossible in their institutions, and have opposed major
transformation at every turn.
For example, in 2003 philanthropist Bob Thompson offered
$200 million to build 15 charter
public schools in the city in which
he would guarantee a 90 percent
graduation rate. In response, the
DFT balked because charter
schools are not unionized. The
outcome was that the union jobs
trumped better outcomes for children.
People vote with their feet, and
all the above suggests why, over
the past decade, DPS has lost
about 10,000 students each year
to charter, independent and suburban schools.
Of course it would be unfair to
place all the blame for the city’s
decline on public employee
unions. Detroit is home to the Big
Three, whose contracts with their
own powerful unions provided the
model for those public employee
arrangements. The UAW successfully extracted wages and benefits
estimated at $71 per hour before
the recent shake-ups began.
This is about $25 more per
hour than the amount foreignowned U.S. auto manufacturing
plants pay their non-unionized
American workers. Due to this
disparity, Japanese car companies
earn some $1,000 to $2,000 more
on each car sold than their American counterparts. The outcome
has been a relentless loss of market share that, among other things,
has devastated the economic
engine that once powered Motor
City prosperity.
In addition to being a model of
progressive economic, labor and
education policy, Detroit is also a
case study in welfare statism. Tom
Bray, former editorial page editor
for The Detroit News, has made
the following observation:
“Detroit, remember, was going
to be the ‘Model City’ of Lyndon
Johnson’s Great Society, the shining example of what the ‘fairness’
of the welfare state can produce.
Billions of dollars later, Detroit
instead has become the model of
everything that can go wrong
when you hook people on the idea
of something for nothing - a oncemiddle class city of nearly 2 million that is now a poverty-stricken
city of less than 900,000.”
Progressives will complain that
this portrait oversimplif ies the
factors involved in a great city’s
decline. Perhaps it does, but with
this question in mind: At what
point does the weight of evidence
and logic make it impossible to
avoid concluding that in the case
of Detroit, correlation is causation?
—————
Jarrett Skorup is a 2009 graduate of Grove City College with a
dual major in history and political science. He is a research
intern at the Mackinac Center for
Public Policy, a research and educational institute headquartered
in Midland, Mich.
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Mortgages Recorded
Bernard J. Youngblood
Register of Deeds
As recorded in the office of the
Register of Deeds
$50,000 and above
The mortgage lender
(i.e. ABN AMRO MTG GROUP)
as indicated by capital letters
and applies to all subsequent
listings until another lender
is noted.
May 18 - May 22, 2009
Michele M Farbstrom
13572 Crosley Redford
4 8 2 3 9 - 4 5 1 9 PA R K S I D E
CREDIT UNION $33,000
Dino Makowski 39595
Winesap St Plymouth
48170-4551 PHH MTG
SERVICES $91,000
Sachiko Reidy 1297
Crowndale Ln Canton
4 8 1 8 8 - 6 2 1 1 P L AT I N U M
HOME
MTG
CORP
$192,000
P a u l A Po w e l l 1 2 7
Clarence St Belleville
48111-2775 PLAZA HOME
MTG INC $187,000
Nicole Sawyer 27231 5
Mile Rd Redford 482393960 POLARIS HOME
FUNDING CORP $54,000
Demeka Saffold 13997
Sarasota Redford 482392836 $75,000
To nya L Va rc o e 5 3 8 N
Hanlon
St
We s t l a n d
48185-8505 $162,000
Mariana Idita 27808
Pe r t h S t L i vo n i a 4 8 1 5 4 4673 $79,000
Philip J Said 44273
Richmond Ct Canton
48187-1919 $139,000
Scott Fluharty 1100
17th St Wyandotte 481923100 PRIMARY RESIDENT I A L M O R T G AG E I N C
$111,000
Karen Sklar Aka 78
K e r c h e v a l Av e G r o s s e
Pointe Farms 48236-3604
P R I VAT E B A N K
AND
TRUST CO $50,000
Folkert Schmidt 310
H i l l c r e s t Av e G r o s s e
Pointe Farms 48236-3116
FUNDING
P R OV I D E N T
ASSOC $217,000
Tina Mroue 22812
Cherry Hill St Dearborn
48124-1021 $107,000
Benjamin J Czerniawski
840
Sunningdale
Dr
G r o s s e Po i n t e Wo o d s
48236-1630 $280,000
Amy Alper t 9357 W
Walden Dr Van Buren Twp
48111-2491 $156,000
John J Roy 43532 Karli
Ln Canton 48188-1700
$141,000
Ling Wang 48987 Runn i n g Tro u t L n N o r t h v i l l e
48168-6842 $195,000
George W Gibson Iii
St
19508
Pinehurst
48221-1426
Detroit
$103,000
Bassam
Hamade
16506 Winchester Dr
Northville 48168-2370
$131,000
Brent W Coffey 16062
Culpepper Rd Browns t o w n To w n s h i p 4 8 1 7 3 9670 $186,000
Stamatina E Ziemba
1 3 1 5 G r ay t o n S t G ro s s e
Po i n t e Pa r k 4 8 2 3 0 - 1 1 2 7
$50,000
Melissa Sorenen 31219
S t e p h e n Av e W e s t l a n d
48185-1636 $138,000
M e l v i n Wa l l a c e 1 8 2 7 6
Lindsay St Detroit 482353242 $31,000
Elizabeth C Mangan
Richmond
St
14843
Southgate 48195-3708
$45,000
Wa l t e r A J a c e k 4 9 7 6
Mckinley St Dearborn
48125-2513
Heights
$26,000
Brian Brenner 667
Lakepointe St Grosse
Po i n t e Pa r k 4 8 2 3 0 - 1 7 0 3
$243,000
Ali Awada 7311 Rutherford St Detroit 48228-4820
$50,000
Delores Greer 223
Windward Ct Detroit
48207-5054 PUBLIC SERVICE CREDIT UNION
$20,000
Juanita Rembert 42819
W i n d i n g Po n d Tr l Va n
B u r e n Tw p 4 8 1 1 1 - 7 2 0 4
$170,000
Rodger Prong 14233
Merriman Rd Livonia
48154-4262 $107,000
Cheryl Sharpley 15526
P l a i nv i e w Av e D e t r o i t
48223-1769 $43,000
Carol M Doyle 579 Morgan Ct Nor thville 481672724 $136,000
Archana Somayaji 7335
Hedgerow Ct Canton
48187-1565 $179,000
Scot Havera Aka 16917
Ln
Romulus
Hawick
48174-3192 $30,000
Robert
J
Wa t e r s
2 4 1 5 2 G r a n d Tr a v e r s e
Av e B r o w n s t o w n To w n ship 48134-8050 $149,000
Cathy Harless 3811
Mckinley St Dearborn
48124-3675 $114,000
German Barbe Aka
15540 Windmill Pointe Dr
Grosse
Po i n t e
Park
48230-1857
QUICKEN
LOANS INC $335,000
David S Warunek 24399
Emily Dr Brownstown
To w n s h i p
48183-5415
$168,000
Liviu Maghear 8162
Riverdale St Dearborn
Heights
48127-1569
$86,000
Arlene F Tomasz ewski
6910 Amboy St Dearborn
Heights
48127-1904
$129,000
Melody Blackman 44625
Cranbrook Ct Canton
48188-1672 $163,000
Jerri K Mcmahon 8533
Mathias Dr Grosse Ile
48138-2307 $115,000
L a t o ya D M a r t i n 5 2 6 0
Yo r k s h i r e R d D e t r o i t
48224-2139 $85,000
Barbara A Kalil 33867
Elmira Ct Livonia 481505636 $230,000
Joseph M Cody 950
D o u g l a s S t G a rd e n C i t y
48135-3062 $159,000
Jennifer
Buchanan
32318 Wisconsin St Livonia 48150-3882 $174,000
K a r e n A Tr a c y 2 8 5 0 1
Brandes Rd Brownstown
48134-9741 RBS CITIZENS
$100,000
Jerome A Dietz 6613 N
E va n g e l i n e S t D e a r b o r n
Heights
48127-2030
$84,000
Arl Ene J Labadie
Dr
We s t wo o d
23262
B r o w n s t o w n To w n s h i p
48183-3255 $122,000
Usha Maheshkar Aka
3 7 7 Tr o o n L n C a n t o n
48188-3098 $14,000
Thomas J Siepierski
1637 Nightingale St Dearborn
48128-1068
$157,000
Helen Costis 267 Victorian Ln Belleville 481114936 $150,000
Ibrahim Hasson Aka
6934 Steadman St Dearborn 48126-1761 $39,000
J o y c e Wa r d
23825
Ashley Dr Brownstown
48134-9095
To w n s h i p
$149,000
Anthony Rimanelli 298
University Pl Grosse
48230-1636
Po i n t e
$237,000
C D Bargamian 8615
Cadillac Cir Grosse Ile
48138-2217 $178,000
Deanna Pusdesris 8150
Burning Bush Rd Grosse
Ile 48138-1304 $227,000
Helen E Donahoe 12742
Catalpa St Southgate
48195-1208 $73,000
David Edick 20137
M a p l ewo o d S t L i vo n i a
48152-2050 $168,000
D a v i d J Po r e m b i a k
2 0 1 7 5 L a u r e l D r L i vo n i a
48152-1196 $235,000
Marita
Horia
5725
Jonathon St Dearborn
48126-2247 $23,000
Yu h a s z
E
Robert
18226
Parkshore
Dr
$417,000
Robert
E
Yu h a s z
Dr
18226
Parkshore
$47,000
Karen K Liederbach
1047 Whittier Rd Grosse
Po i n t e Pa r k 4 8 2 3 0 - 1 4 6 0
$200,000
Barbara S Fisher 26841
C o a c h l i g h t S t Tr e n t o n
48183-5302 RIVERS EDGE
COMMUNITY
CREDIT
UNION $168,000
Dennis A Guzenda 4109
19th St Wyandotte 481926927 $25,000
Robert N Ellis 10832
B a r ag a S t Tay l o r 4 8 1 8 0 3729 $76,000
Ann M Boggs 9377
N i v e r Av e A l l e n P a r k
48101-1541 $50,000
Shawver
Chevonna
19951 Pierson St Detroit
48219-1357 ROCKWELL
MTG CO $52,000
Debra M Bumstead
29816 Bayview Dr Grosse
Ile 48138-1959 $59,000
Kathryn Pulk 7817
A u g u s t Av e W e s t l a n d
48185-2505 ROSS MTG
CORP $80,000
Stamatina E Ziemba
1 3 1 5 G r ay t o n S t G ro s s e
Po i n t e Pa r k 4 8 2 3 0 - 1 1 2 7
$100,000
Amy K Clor 1050
Hawthorne Rd Grosse
Pointe Woods 48236-1466
$142,000
DLN Front Jul10-1
7/9/09
2:41 PM
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METRO DETROIT:
I-75
* In Wayne County, the North Huron River
Drive entrance ramp to southbound I-75 is closed
until July 15.
* In Wayne County, the southbound I-75 exit
ramp to westbound Gibraltar Road (29B) is
closed until July 15. Exit 29A is the alternate exit.
In Wayne County, Woodruff over I-75 is closed
through July 15.
* In Wayne County, I-75 is now open between
I-96 and Clark Street. Intermittent lane closures,
along with some ramp and surface street closures,
remain in place until mid August as work is completed.
I-94
* In Macomb and St. Clair counties, there are
lane closures and shifted traffic on I-94 between
St. Clair Highway and the Macomb County line
until August 31. The Adair rest area is also closed.
I-96
In Wayne County, the eastbound I-96 ramp to
southbound I-75 is closed until December 1. I-94,
M-39 and I-75 are the alternate routes.
In Wayne County, repairs are being made to 13
bridges above I-96 between Livernois and Davison avenues until fall 2010.
I-96, I-696
* In Oakland County, Halsted Road between
Hills Tech Drive and Howard Street is closed until
late August; the ramps from Novi Road to eastbound I-96 are closed until late October; there are
lane shifts on I-96 between Beck Road and M-5
until September 15 (eastbound) and July 13 (west-
early August. Also, the right
lane on eastbound mainline
Eight Mile is closed.
In Wayne County, the left
lane of eastbound Eight Mile
Road is closed between Van
Dyke and I-94 through July 18.
bound); and the ramp from
southbound M-5 to westbound I96 is closed until July 13.
I-696
In Macomb County, the left
lane in each direction of I-696 is
closed between I-94 and Hayes
Road, along with a single lane
on the ramp from eastbound I-94
to westbound I-696, until August
3.
In Macomb County, the
northbound and southbound
Mound entrance ramps to I-696
in both directions are closed
until late August.
In Macomb County, the
eastbound I-696 exit ramp to 11
Mile Road is closed until September 4.
In Oakland County, both shoulders on
I-696 east of Orchard Lake Road are closed until
July 25.
In Oakland County, watch for the lane restrictions on the following roads which cross over I696 until late July: Southfield Road, one lane
open southbound and three lanes open northbound; Greenfield Road, one lane open in each
direction; Coolidge Highway, one lane open
southbound and three lanes open northbound.
In Oakland County, watch for the following
restrictions: the Meadowbrook bridge is closed
until July 28. The detour is 12 Mile Road, Novi
Road and Grand River; the Lahser Road on ramp
to eastbound I-696 is closed until July 7; the Evergreen Road on ramp to westbound I-696 is closed
until July 7; Orchard Lake Road over I-696 is
reduced to two lanes in each direction until early
August. In conjunction, the southbound Orchard
Lake loop ramp to eastbound I-696 is closed until
July 15.
US-12 (Michigan Avenue)
In Wayne County, US-12 is reduced to
two lanes in each direction between Evergreen
Road and M-39 (Southfield Freeway) until July
31. Also, watch for intermittent daytime closures
of an additional westbound lane here through July
31; US-12 is down to one lane in each direction
between Monroe and Elm until July 31: the eastbound US-12 ramp to southbound M-39 is closed
through July 31; the eastbound US-12 ramp to
northbound Evergreen is closed until November
1; and the southbound Evergreen ramp to eastbound US-12 is closed until November 1.
US-24 (Telegraph Road)
In Wayne County, southbound Telegraph is
26 Mile Road
In Macomb County, 26 Mile
Road over M-53 is closed until
July 31. Also, the ramp from
eastbound 26 Mile Road to
southbound M-53, and the
southbound M-53 exit to westbound 26 Mile, are closed until
late July.
being resurfaced between Plymouth and
Joy roads, while both directions are improved
between Vreeland Road and South Huron River
Drive.
M-3
In Macomb County, northbound Gratiot is
closed at the railroad tracks near M-59 until
August 12.
M-14
In Wayne County, watch for single and double
lane closures on M-14 in both directions between
Beck Road and I-275 until approximately September 10.
Grand River Avenue
In Oakland County, Grand River is down to
one lane in each direction between Farmington
and Power roads until July 20. After July 20, traffic will be shifted to the north side of the road
until sometime in October.
SOUTHEAST:
I-69
In St. Clair County, I-69 traffic is down to one
shifted lane in each direction on the eastbound
side from Miller Road to the county line until
October 15.
M-39 (Southfield Freeway)
* In Wayne County, the southbound M-39 exit
to Grand River is closed until July 9.
I-75
In Monroe County, Sterns Road over I-75 is
closed. Two lanes of traffic are open both ways on
I-75, with brief, off-peak full closures planned.
M-125, Manhattan and Summit are the alternate
routes until August 31.
M-53
In Macomb County, during peak travel times,
two shifted lanes are open in each direction on M53 between 18 Mile and 27 Mile roads. During
overnights and weekends, only one lane is open
each way. The northbound M-53 to westbound 23
Mile Road is closed until August 1. The end date
for all of this work is November 15.
I-94
* In Jackson County, watch for nighttime lane
closures in each direction on I-94 between West
Avenue and Sargent Road until July 14.
* In Jackson County, Hawkins Road over I-94
is closed and traffic is detoured until early October. Also, until July 18, the outside shoulders on
I-94 at Hawkins are closed.
M-85 (Fort Street)
In Wayne County, southbound M-85 is closed
between Gibraltar Road and I-75, and the southbound on ramp to southbound I-75 is closed, until
July 15.
I-94 Business Loop
In Jackson County, there are single lane closures in each direction on the I-94 Business
Loop/Michigan Avenue between Perrine and Elm
streets until July 24.
In Washtenaw County, one lane of eastbound
Huron Street is closed at State Street until September 30. Also, State Street northbound is closed
north of Washington Street. Fletcher and Huron
are the alternate routes.
M-102 (Eight Mile Road)
In Oakland and Wayne counties, the Eight
Mile Road service drive bridges over M-10
(Lodge Freeway) are closed and detoured until
I-96
In Livingston County, watch for intermittent
midday, overnight and weekend lane closures in
each direction on I-96 between US-23 and the
Livingston/Oakland line until November 30. The
Kensington Road bridge is closed until August 7,
and the Pleasant Valley Road bridge will be
repaired later this summer.
US-12 (Michigan Avenue)
In Washtenaw County, there is a single lane
closure and a 12-foot width restriction on US-12
at and to a point one-half mile west of State Road
until July 31. Platt, Bemis and Industrial Drive are
the alternate routes.
US-127
In Jackson County, US-127 is down to one
lane in each direction on the east side of the road
Ayers Road and Floyd Avenue through August 13.
US-223
In Lenawee County, watch for lane restrictions
and shifted traffic on US-223 near Treat Highway
until September 5.
M-17 (Washtenaw Avenue)
In Washtenaw County, the center three lanes
are closed in each direction on M-17 between
Carpenter Road and Normal Street in Ypsilanti
through August 31.
M-36
In Livingston County, there are intermittent
midday shoulder and single lane closures on M36 in each direction at Merrill Road through
August 27.
In Livingston County, M-36 will close for two
weeks or less near Pettys Road. When it reopens,
one lane will be maintained in each direction until
late August.
M-50
In Lenawee County, there are shoulder closures, width limits and flagger-controlled daytime
traffic on M-50 from Nortley Highway to M-52
through September 30.
In Monroe County, watch for midday and
overnight alternating single lane traffic controlled
by flaggers on M-50 (South Custer Road) from
Lewis Avenue to US-24 (Telegraph Road) through
July 15.
M-59
In Livingston County, there are midday single
lane closures in each direction of M-59 between
US-23 and Clark Road until September 30.
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Wayne County Probate Court Approved List of Mediators
AVAILABLE INFORMATION
LAST UPDATED 10-26-07
H. ROLLIN. ALLEN
Sommers Schwartz
2000 Town Center, Suite 900
Southfield, MI 48075
(248) 355-0300
Hourly rate: $250
TRACY L. ALLEN
Sommers, Schwartz,
Silver, Schwartz
2000 Town Center, Suite 900
(248) 355-0300
Hourly rate: $300
BARBARA P. ANDRUCCIOLI
Kemp, Klein, Umphrey,
Endelman & May, P.C.
201 W. Big Beaver Road,
Suite 600
Troy, MI 48084
(248) 740-5683
Hourly rate: $180
DANIEL G. BEYER
Kerr, Russell & Weber
500 Woodward Avenue,
Suite 2500
Detroit, MI 48226
(313) 961-0200
Hourly rate: $225
CURTIS B. BLESSING
Curtis B. Blessing, P.C.
645 Griswold Street,
Suite 4300
Detroit, MI 48226
(313) 963-3344
Hourly rate: $195-$225
ANGELINE BILLUPS
655 Rivard, #304
Detroit, MI 48207
(313) 567-0474
Hourly rate: $150
JOSEPH A. BONVENTRE
Clark Hill PLC
500 Woodward Avenue,
Suite 3500
Detroit, MI 48226
(313) 965-8293
Hourly rate: $250
GARRY I. BORIN
Garry I. Borin, P.C.
24520 Meadowbrook
Novi, MI 48375
(248) 478-8260
Hourly rate: $160
JOSEPH M. BOURBEAU
Joseph M. Bourbeau, P.C.
23100 Jefferson
St. Clair Shores, MI 48080
(586) 778-1234
SUSAN BUTTERWICK
Law Office of
Susan Butterwick
2950 S. State Street,
Suite 300
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
(734) 665-4808
Hourly rate: $150
BARBARA CLARK
Clark Consulting
3520 N. Sand Lake Road
Allen, MI 49227
Hourly rate: $150
MARGARET A. COSTELLO
Dykema Gossett, PLLC
($1500 per day)
400 Renaissance Center
Detroit, MI 48243
(313) 568-5306
Hourly rate: $300
($1,500 per day)
COMMUNITY DISPUTE
RESOLUTION PROGRAM
Wayne Mediation Center
19855 W. Outer Drive,
Suite 206 – East Building
Dearborn, MI 48124
(313) 561-3500
Rate: $200 per mediation
KAREN C. CRUSSE
Law Office of
Karen C. Crusse
525 E. Big Beaver Rd.,
Suite 250
Troy, MI 48083
(248) 743-6800
Hourly rate: $150
MARK R. DANCER
Mark R. Dancer, Esq.
100 Park St
Traverse City, MI 49684
(616) 929-0500
Hourly rate: $250
DENISE M. HUDSON DEAN
Law Office of
Denise M. Hudson Dean
645 Griswold, Suite 717
Detroit, MI 48226
(313) 964-5945
Hourly rate: $175
LAWRENCE DONALDSON
Plunkett & Cooney, P.C.
10 S. Main Street,
Suite 400
Mt. Clemons, MI 48230
(586) 783-7633
Hourly rate: $250
CYNTHIA L.M. JOHNSON
Couzens, Lansky, Fealk, Ellis
Detroit, MI 48226
(313) 967-9000
Hourly rate: $230
(including preparation time)
J. PATRICK MARTIN
Law Office of
J. Patrick Martin
1663 Hoit Tower
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48302
(248) 932-8694
PATRICIA GORMELY PRINCE
Patricia Gormely Prince, P.C.
31300 Northwestern Highway
Farmington Hills, MI
48334-2523
(248) 865-8810
Hourly rate: $225
LAWRENCE G. SNYDER
Kemp Klein Law Firm
201 West Big Beaver,
Suite 600
Troy, MI 48084
(248) 528-1111
Hourly rate: $185
FREEMAN L. FARROW
Miller, Canfield, Paddock
and Stone, PLC
150 West Jefferson,
Suite 2500
Detroit, MI 48226
(313) 496-7598
Hourly rate: $200
HON. DAVID P. KERWIN
4162 Breckenridge Drive
West Bloomfield, MI 48322
(248) 797-3409
Hourly rate: $175
SHARON MILLER
4455 West 14 Mile Road
Royal Oak, MI 48073
(248) 549-8544
(up to 4 hours)
DALTON A. ROBERSON
640 Apelehama Circle
Diamondhead MS 39925
(228) 255-6027
— or —
8900 E. Jefferson, Apt. 626
Detroit, MI 48214
(313) 822-0419
Hourly rate: $200
(Negotiable)
MICHAEL J. SOLNER
Solner & Solner
2057 Orchard Lake Road
Sylvan Lake, MI 48320
(248) 334-5200
Hourly rate: $190
MICHELE P. FULLER
Fuller & Stubbs, PLLC
45700 Village Blvd.
Shelby Township, MI 48315
(586) 532-9100
Rate: $1,500 per day
FREDERIC I. KEYWELL
Executive Hotel
Management Company
31800 Northwestern Hwy,
Suite 130
Farmington Hills, MI 48334
(248) 626-7900
Hourly rate: $250
BYRON P. GALLAGHER, JR.
The Gallagher
Law Firm, PLC
2408 Lake Lansing Road
Lansing, Michigan 48912
Hourly rate: $200
MARJORIE L. KOLIN
Kolin & Associates
31555 W. 14 Mile Road,
Suite 214
(248) 539-5400
Hourly rate: $205
MAXINE GRAFF GOODMAN
Office of
Maxine Graff Goodman
30965 Hitching Post Court
(248) 891-7820
Hourly rate: $150
WILLIAM J. LAWSON, JR.
Law Office of
William J. Lawson, Jr.
8529 N. Territorial
Plymouth, MI 48170
(734) 455-2245
Hourly rate: $180
MARK W. HAFELI
Hafeli Staran Hallahan
Christ & Dudek, PC
4190 Telegraph Road,
Suite 3000
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304-2361
(248) 731-3080
Hourly rate: $195
MICHAEL C. LEVINE
Fraser, Trebilcock,
Davis & Dunlap
124 W. Allegan, Suite 1000
Lansing, MI 48933
(517) 482-5800
Hourly rate: $190
EDWARD L. HAROUTUNIAN
Haroutunian, Licata
& Haroutunian
Suite 3475
Bingham Farms, MI 48025
(248) 594-9071
Hourly rate: $200
SHAHEEN I. IMAMI
Patricia Gormely Prince, P.C.
31300 Northwestern Highway
(248) 865-8810
Hourly rate: $180
HOWARD T. LINDEN
Law Office of
Howard T. Linden
3000 Town Center,
Suite 2200
(248) 358-4545
Hourly rate: $175
HOWARD A. LISCHERON
Wayne Mediation Center
19855 West Outer Drive
Suite 206-East Building
Dearborn Heights, MI 48124
(313) 561-3500
JAMES MICHAEL MONDRO
Pochelon Building
1000 Farmer
Detroit, MI 48226
(313) 965-3464
Hourly rate: $150
PAUL F. MONICATTI
1301 W. Long Lake Road,
Suite 355
Troy, MI 48098
(248) 641-3849
JONATHAN L. MOODY
Law Office of
Jonathan L. Moody
719 Griswold –
Suite 820
Detroit, MI 48226
(313) 967-7787
Hourly rate: $125
LINDA MOORE
6015 Glen Eagles Drive
West Bloomfield, MI 48323
(248) 681-0991
(maximum of 3 hours
per session)
JEFFREY T. NEILSON
Lipson, Neilson, Cole,
Seltzer & Garin, P.C.
Suite 200
(248) 593-5000
Hourly rate: $250
ANTHEA PAPISTA
Urso, Palmer & Ross
535 Griswold,
Suite 800
Detroit, MI 48226
(313) 965-1688
Hourly rate: $200
MAYRA A. RODRIGUEZ
Law Office of
Mayra Rodriguez
1966 Penobscot Building
Detroit, MI 48226
(313) 965-0586
Hourly rate: $200
RAMON F. ROLF, JR.
Currie, Kendall, Polasky,
Meisel, PLC
6024 Eastman Avenue
P.O. Box 2765
Midland, MI 48641-2765
(989) 839-0300
Hourly rate: Negotiable
CARL J. SCHOENINGER
16291 W. Fourteen Mile Road
Suite 280
Beverly Hills, Michigan 48025
(248) 645-1122
Hourly rate: $225
DIANNE P. SCHULTZ
Mediation Service
250 E. Harbortown Drive,
#1209
Detroit, MI 48207
(313) 392-9334
STEVEN L. SCHWARTZ
ADR Solutions
24750 Lahser Road
(248) 355-9960
CHARLENE SNOW
17517 Birchcrest Drive
Detroit, MI 48221
(313) 342-4423
CARTER H. STEVENSON
18205 Wildemere
Detroit, MI 48221
(313) 224-6820
JOELYNN STOKES
J.T. Stokes &
Associates, P.C.
23880 Woodward Avenue
Pleasant Ridge, MI 48069
(248) 291-0500
Hourly rate: $150
TOWANA TATE
Law Offices of
Towana Tate, PC
30300 Northwestern Hwy.,
Suite 250
(248) 785-0200 x396
Hourly rate: $175
GUY VINING
Berkley, Mengel & Vining
3100 Penobscot Building
Detroit, MI 48226
(313) 961-0220
Hourly rate: $200
GEORGE WARD
Law Office of George Ward
P.O. Box 2148
Riverview, MI 48192
(734) 812-4173
Hourly rate: $150
JERMAINE A. WYRICK
Law Office of
Jermaine A. Wyrick, PLLC
615 Griswold,
Suite 1610
Detroit, MI 48226
(313) 964-8950
Hourly rate: $150
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Non-profit or Community Based Advocacy and Legal Projects
These “free-standing” progra m s a r e n o t f u n d e d by t h e
Legal Services Corporation and
every program has unique client
eligibility requirements. Attorneys
interested in volunteering assistance should contact the programs directly to lear n of pro
b o n o o p p o r t u n i t i e s. Po t e n t i a l
clients are free to call them
directly – each has an intake or
screening process for callers in
order to determine if the program
will be able to help. Changes can
occur often to this list so please
double check the information listed below.
ACCOUNTING AID SOCIETY
Serves: Metro Detroit
Tax Assistance Program
18145 Mack Avenue
Detroit, MI 48224
Tel: (313) 647-9620
Fax: (313) 647-9628
E-mail: taxassistance@mindspring.com
Accounting Aid Society assists
low-income taxpayers in preparing
their personal income tax returns
for free.
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES
UNION FUND OF MICHIGAN
Serves: Statewide
60 W. Hancock St.
Detroit, MI 48201-1343
Tel: (313) 578-6800 (Intake Number)
Fax (313) 578-6811
Website: www.aclumich.org
American Civil Liber ties Union
Fund of Michigan provides services
in the following legal areas:
• Constitutional Issues
• Freedom of Speech
• Due Process
• Privacy
CENTER FOR CIVIL JUSTICE
Serves: Arenac, Bay, Clare, Genesee, Gladwin, Gratiot, Isabella,
Lapeer, Midland and Saginaw
Counties
Statewide services on significant
anti-hunger issues.
320 South Washington, 2 nd Floor
Saginaw, MI 48607
Tel: (989) 755–3120
Fax: (989) 755–3558
Website: www.mlan.net/ccj
Issue aler ts available on
www.mplp.org; community education mater ials available on
www.mlan.net and www.foodstamphelp.org.
Newsletter: Michigan Connections (available by subscription)
Center for Civil Justice emphasizes legal issues and services that
cannot be funded by LSC-funded
programs, with priority given to the
following legal
areas:
• Public Benefits
• Health
• Housing – especially subsidized
programs
• Food Stamp and Nutrition Programs
• Legal issues affecting groups of
low income persons that requires
advocacy that cannot be provided
by an LSC-funded grantee due to
funding
restrictions
• Work First / Education and Training programs
Center for Civil Justice will
design and present substantive and
advocacy training for advocates
and agencies, generally on a contract basis.
CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER
Serves: Kent County
1695 Service Rd. NE, Ste. 101
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
Tel: (616) 458–0330
Fax: (616) 458–8630
Website: www.grchildrenslawcenter.org
Children’s Law Center provides
ser vices in the following legal
areas:
• Divorce
• Guardian ad litem
• Custody
• Juvenile matters
• Probate (nonjuvenile)
• Guardianship
COMMON GROUND
SANCTUARY LEGAL CLINIC
Ser ves: Macomb, Oakland and
Wayne Counties
1410 South Telegraph
Tel: (248) 456-8158 Business Line
(248) 456–0909 Crisis Line
Fax (248) 456–8147
Common Ground Sanctuar y
Legal Clinic provides services in
the following legal areas:
• Criminal
• Domestic
• Civil
• Eviction
• Wills
• Probate
• Guardian ad litem
• Juvenile matters
• Custody
COMMUNITY
LEGAL RESOURCES
Serves: Statewide
900 Michigan Bldg.
220 Bagley Ave.
Detroit, MI 48226
Tel: (313) 964–4130
Fax: (313) 964–1192
E-mail: clr@michiganlegal.org
Website: www.mlan.net/mls/clr.htm
Community Legal Resources
provides services to nonprofit organizations serving low-income or
distressed neighborhoods in the
following legal areas:
• Corporate Law
• Tax and Nonprofit Organizations
Law
• Other Business Law or Transactional Matters
• Real Estate Law
DETROIT LEGAL
SERVICES CLINIC
Serves: All counties in the Eastern
District of Michigan
Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association
Volunteer Legal Services
Detroit, MI 48226
Tel: (313) 961–6120
Fax: (313) 965-0842
Website: www.detroitlawyer.org
In conjunction with the Legal Aid
and Defender Association of
Detroit, Wayne County Neighborhood Legal Services and various
other legal ser vice agencies.
Detroit Legal Services Clinic provides services in the following legal
areas:
• Housing
• Probate Matters
• Tax/Employment
• Real Estate
• Consumer Rights
• Guardianship
ELDER LAW OF MICHIGAN, INC.
Serves: Statewide
221 N. Pine Street
Lansing, MI 48933
Tel: (517) 372-5959
Fax: (517) 372-0792
Elder Law of Michigan, Inc. is a
non profit organization that serves
the legal needs of seniors
statewide through the Legal Hotline
for Michigan Seniors, the Michigan/Ohio Pension Rights Project,
Long Term Care Personal Responsibility Project. This organization
houses the Michigan Long Term
Care Ombudsman, which monitors
and takes complaints of long term
care facilities.
FEDERAL CIVIL
PRO BONO PROJECT
Serves: All counties in the Eastern
District of Michigan
Detroit, MI 48226
Tel: (313) 961–6120
Fax: (313) 965-0842
In conjunction with the Michigan Trial Lawyers Association and
the U.S. District Court, Eastern
District of Michigan. Federal Civil
Pro Bono Project provides services to pro se clients in the following legal areas:
• Prisoner Civil Rights
• Employment Discrimination
FIRST STEP
LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT
Serves: Western Wayne County
and Downriver areas
Taylor Office
26650 Eureka Road, Suite E
Taylor, MI 48180-4835
Tel: (734) 955-3850
Fax (734) 955-3855
Toll-free (888) 453-5900 24 hour
Help Line or (734) 459-5900
(Local)
Plymouth Office
44567 Pinetree Drive
Plymouth, MI 48170-3840
Tel: (734) 416-1111
Fax (734) 416-5555
First Step Legal Advocacy Project provides services in the following legal areas:
• Domestic Violence
• Sexual Assault
FREE LEGAL
AID CLINIC, INC. (FLAC)
Serves: Wayne County
5435 Woodward Avenue
Detroit, MI 48202
Tel: (313) 879-2429
Fax: (313) 577-3728
e-mail: flac@wayne.edu
FLAC’s purpose is to render
legal assistance to low-income and
indigent residents of Wayne County
in a manner which Wayne State
University Law School students are
educated in a clinical setting.
FREEDOM HOUSE
2630 W. Lafayette
Tel: (313) 964-4320
Fax: (313) 963-1077
E-mail: FHShelter@aol.com
Freedom House is a shelter for
refugees seeking political asylum
in the United States. The refugees
live at Freedom House while their
asylum cases are pending before
the Immigration and Naturalization
Ser vice. Freedom House is an
interdenominational, nonprofit
charity that provides food, clothing,
shelter and social and legal services to people of all races and
creeds. Its mission is to extend
love and human dignity to people
who have been devastated by torture and the denial of human
rights. Freedom House works to
legally resettle refugees into Canada or the United States, speaks
out against injustice and educates
for systemic change. All Freedom
House residents are indigent. The
purpose of Freedom House is to
provide legal representation to
indigent refugees seeking political
asylum in the U.S. The Legal
Department provides services in
the following legal areas:
• Prepares Asylum Applications for
residents
• Represents residents before the
U. S. I m m i g r a t i o n C o u r t , t h e
Board of Immigration Appeals
and the federal courts.
HAVEN
Serves: Pontiac, Southfield, Farmington, Rochester Hills
P.O. Box 430787
Pontiac, MI 48343-0787
P.O. Box 431045
Pontiac, MI 48343-1045
Tel: (248) 334-1284
Fax: (248) 334-3161
Website: www.haven-oakland.org
Crisis and Support: (877) 922-1274
Haven provides services in the
• Dedicated to the elimination of
Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault
and Child Abuse by providing prevention and treatment services
throughout Oakland County.
IMMIGRATION ASSISTANCE
PROGRAM – DIOCESE
OF KALAMAZOO
Serves: Allegan, Barry, Berrien,
Branch, Calhoun, Cass, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph and Van Buren
1128 Race Street
Kalamazoo, MI 49001
Tel: (616) 385-1019
Fax: (616) 344-6602
Immigration Assistance Project
– Hispanic American Council provides services in the following legal
areas:
• General Consultations
• Family Based Immigration Petitions
• Adjustment of Status Applications
• Naturalization Applications
• Violence Against Women Act Petitions
• Temporar y Protected Status
Applications
IMMIGRATION LEGAL SERVICES
Serves: Statewide
Services available in multiple languages including Spanish, Arabic,
Chaldean, French, Vietnamese,
and Serbo-Croatian.
Archdiocese of Detroit
305 Michigan Ave., 5 th Floor
Detroit, MI 48226
Tel: (313) 237–4646
(English or Spanish)
Fax (313) 237–5866
(313) 237–4699
(Arabic or Chaldean)
Immigration Legal Services provides services in the following legal
areas:
• General consultations
• Family petitions
• Adjustments of status
• Asylum and refugee applications
• Deportation/removal proceedings
• Citizen and nationality law
• Non-Immigrant visas and work
authorizations
INNOCENCE PROJECT
The Thomas M. Cooley Law School
300 S. Capitol Ave., Lansing, MI
48933
Tel: (517) 334–5760
Fax (517) 334–5761
www.cooley.edu
Case intake criteria include all
of the following three categories:
• Persons who claim actual innocence saying they did not commit
the crime for which they were convicted;
• Persons who are serving a substantial sentence in prison in the
State of Michigan; and
• Persons whose innocence could
be established by DNA testing of
biological evidence that was collected during the course of the
criminal investigation of their case.
LACASA LEGAL
INTERVENTION PROJECT
Serves: Livingston County
Legal Intervention Project
P.O. Box 72
Howell, MI 48844
Tel: (517) 548-1350
Crisis – Domestic Violence:
(810) 227-7100
Crisis – Sexual Assault:
(517) 548-4228
Fax: (517) 548-3034
LACASA Legal Intervention Project provides services in the following legal areas:
• Aid in creating and completing
Safety Plans
• Court Accompaniment
• Domestic Violence and Sexual
Assault informational materials
• Expert witnesses available
• Shelter
• Support groups and individuals
counseling for adults and children
• Victim Impact Statement and PPO
assistance
• 24 Hour crisis line and 24 hour
on-call response for both domestic
violence and sexual assault.
LEGAL ASSISTANCE CENTER
Serves: Allegan, Kent, Muskegon
and Ottawa counties.
180 Ottawa Ave., N.W., Ste. 5100
Business Phone: (616) 632-6014
Patron Phone: (616) 632-6000
Toll Free: (888) 454-9554
TTY: (616) 632-6010
Fax: (616) 632-6011
Website: http://www.legalassistancecenter.org
Legal Assistance Center provides the following services:
• Referrals to community agencies
and attorneys.
• Information and assistance with
various legal self-help materials and
forms on the following areas of law:
1. Conservatorship of an adult
2. Guardianship of a Child
3. Guardianship of an Adult
4. Change of Parenting Time
5. Change of Custody
6. Change of Child Support
7. Garnishment
8. Rental Property Information for
Landlords
9. Rental Property Information for
Tenants
10. Small Claims
11. Small Estate
Fees: $25 for initial consultation
with an attorney. All other services
are free.
LEGAL HOTLINE FOR
MICHIGAN SENIORS
Serves: Statewide
221 N. Pine St
Lansing, MI 48933
Tel: (517) 372–5959
Toll Free: (800) 347–5297
Fax (517) 372–0792
Legal Hotline for Michigan
Seniors provides services in the following legal areas:
• Wills and Estate Planning
• Medicaid
• Medicare
• Consumer Law
• Housing/Real Estate
• Pensions
• Public Benefits
• Other
MICHIGAN ADVOCATES
EXCHANGE, INC.
2048 Washtenaw, Upper Ste.
Ypsilanti, MI 48197
Tel: (734) 484-6900
Toll: (888) MAX-3660
Fax: (734) 484-6943
E-mail: info@positiveoutlook.org
Enhancing and supporting the
independence and self-sufficiency
of people living with HIV/AIDS
through programs for:
• Critical Needs Advocacy
• Case Manager Support
• Legal Services
• Legal Training
• Resource Guides
• Information Clearinghouse
• Peer Support Networks
MICHIGAN FOSTER ADOPTIVE
PARENT ASSOCIATION
2450 Delhi Commerce Drive, Suite
13
Holt, MI 48842
Tel: (517) 694-1056
Toll Free: (800) 632-4180
Fax: (517) 694-3092
MICHIGAN LEGAL SERVICES
Serves: Statewide/emphasis on
Detroit metro area.
900 Michigan Bldg.
220 Bagley Ave.
Detroit, MI 48226
Tel: (313) 964–4130
Fax: (313) 964–1192
Email: mls@michiganlegal.org
Website: ww.mlan.net/mls/mls.html
Michigan Legal Ser vices
engages in impact oriented litigation and systemic policy advocacy
to address root causes of poverty
in the areas of:
• Housing
• Health
• Mental Health
• Public Benefits Law
Nonprofit community organizations engaged in community economic development strategies for
rebuilding low-income communities
are represented through its Community Legal Resources program.
See Community Legal Resources
link.
MICHIGAN MIGRANT LEGAL
ASSISTANCE PROJECT, INC.
Serves: Farmworkers Statewide
Grand Rapids Office
648 Monroe, N.W., Suite 318
Tel: (616) 454-5055
Fax: (616) 454-7022
Toll Free (1-800-418-3390)
E-mail: mmlap@justice.com
Michigan Migrant Legal Assistance Project provides bilingual
areas:
• Employment
• Housing
• Civil Rights
• Education
• Consumer
• Public Benefits
• Immigration
• Health
MICHIGAN PROTECTION
AND ADVOCACY SERVICE, INC.
Serves: Statewide
106 W. Allegan, Suite 300
Lansing, MI 48933-1706
Tel: (517) 487–1755
Toll Free (800) 288–5923
Fax (517) 487–0827
Michigan Protection and Advocacy Service, Inc., provides services in the following legal areas:
• Disability Rights Issues
• HIV/AIDS Rights
• Children’s Disability/Special Education Rights
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
DETROIT COLLEGE OF LAW
CLINICAL LAW PROGRAMS
Serves: Clinton, Ingham, and Eaton
Counties
Rental Housing and Tax Clinics
541 E. Grand River
P.O. Box 310
East Lansing, MI 48826
Tel: (517) 336–8088
Fax (517) 336-8089
MSU – Detroit College of Law
Rental Housing Clinic provides services in the following legal areas:
• Landlord/Tenant Rights
MSU – Detroit College of Law
Tax Clinic provides services in the
• Represent low-income taxpayers
in cases and controversies before
the Internal Revenue Service and
the United States Tax Court
• Prepare income tax returns for
persons for whom English is a second language.
MIDLAND
ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE
Serves: Midland County
P.O. Box 121
Midland, MI 48640-0121
Tel: (989) 430-0460
Fax: (989) 631-1170
Midland Alliance for Justice provides services in the following legal
areas:
• Domestic Relations
• Landlord/Tenant
NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL
SERVICES MICHIGAN
Ser ves: Principal Area Wayne
County
Disability/AIDS Law: Southeast
Michigan
Emergency Legal Advice/Victims of
Crime: Statewide
Law Center and the
Disability Law Clinic
104 Lothrop, Suite B
Detroit, MI 48202
Tel: (313) 874-5820
Fax (313) 874-5497
Housing Assistance
for the Disabled
At American Indian Services
1110 Southrifld Rd.
Lincoln Park, MI 48146
Tel: (313) 357-2658
Fax: (313) 357-2678
Administrative Offices and
Housing Placement Center
455 W. Fort Street, Suite 214
Detroit, MI 48226
Tel: (313) 964-1975
Fax: (313) 963-2584
Neighborhood Legal Services
Michigan provides victims of crime
and people seeking to obtain
Social Security disability benefits
with legal representation. Housing
placement services are available
for homeless persons and families.
Law related education is available
to the community through classroom outreach in conjunction with
the Detroit Public Schools and
other educational facilities in
Wayne County. The following activities are housed at the Law Center
on Lothrop:
• AIDS Law Center – Tel: (313)
874-5820 Fax: (313) 874-5497
Law
•
Child
&
Family
Center/Domestic Violence Clinic –
Tel: (313) 874-5820 Fax: (313) 8745497
• Children’s Center for Justice and
Peace – Tel: (313) 874-5820 Fax:
(313) 874-5497
• Disability Law Clinic – Tel: (313)
874-5820 Fax: (313) 874-5497
NLG/SUGAR LAW CENTER
FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL
JUSTICE (GUILD LAW CENTER)
Serves: Nationwide
733 St. Antoine, 3 rd Floor
Detroit, MI 48226
Tel: (313) 962–6540
Fax (313) 962-4492
Website: http://www.sugarlaw.org
Sugar Law Center for Economic
and Social Justice provides services in the following legal areas:
• Plant Closings (Warn Act)
• Poverty Rights Issues
• Environmental Justice Issues
• Economic Rights and Living
Wage Issues
PARTNERS FOR PRO BONO’S
LOW-INCOME TAX PAYER
PRO BONO PROJECT
Legal Aid and Defender
Association, Inc.
645 Griswold Street, Suite 2400
Tel: (313) 964-4111
Par tners for Pro Bono’s lowincome taxpayer pro bono project
represent low-income taxpayers
with disputes before the Internal
Revenue Services.
PRISON LEGAL
SERVICES OF MICHIGAN, INC.
Serves: Statewide
State Prison of Southern Michigan
3855 Cooper St.
Jackson, MI 49201
Tel: (517) 780–6639
Fax (517) 780–5887
Prison Legal Services of Michigan, Inc., provides services in the
• All civil legal aid matters (other
than civil rights suits against prison
officials);
• Detainees and federal habeas
corpus;
• Assistance after the right of criminal appeal is exhausted and other
post conviction matters;
• Advice in prison administrative
matters;
• Paralegal training for selected
inmates and job placement assistance for released paralegals.
• Provide information sheets on
numerous post-conviction, civil and
prison administrative topics.
• Provide self-help packets in
selected criminal, prisoners’ rights,
and prison administrative matters.
• Represent male prisoner class in
statewide class action in Court of
Claims raising access to courts,
classification, property and telephone system issues.
SAFE HOUSE
Serves: Washtenaw County
Domestic Violence Project
P.O. Box 7052
Ann Arbor, MI 48107-7052
Tel: (734) 973–0242 ext. 204
Crisis Line (734) 995–5444
Fax (734) 973-7817
Safe House provides the following information:
• Domestic Violence Mentors
• Domestic Violence Materials
• Client protection and meeting
locations
• Referrals to attorneys and to pro
bono legal services
• Assistance with personal protection orders
• Court accompaniment for survivors of domestic violence
• Expert witnesses on issues of
domestic violence
• Temporary shelter
• Support Groups
• 24 hour crisis line
• 24 hour on-call response team
• Domestic violence and legal training for law enforcement, lawyers,
paralegals, other professionals
SIXTY PLUS, INC.,
ELDERLAW CLINIC
Serves: Clinton, Ingham, and Eaton
Counties
300 S. Capitol Avenue
P.O. Box 13038
Lansing, MI 48901-3038
Tel: (517) 334–5760
Fax (517) 334–5761
www.cooley.edu
Sixty Plus, Inc., Elderlaw Clinic
provides services in the following
legal areas:
• Public Benefits
• Housing
• Landlord/Tenant
• Consumer Protection
• Age Discrimination
• Family Law
• Probate
• Guardianship/Conservatorship
STUDENT ADVOCACY
CENTER OF MICHIGAN
2301 Platt Road
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Tel: (734) 973-7860
Fax: (734) 973-7864
The Student Advocacy Center
of Michigan (SAC) provides free,
non-legal advocacy to students
(and their parents) who are eligible
for general and special public education programs. SAC’s purpose is:
• To encourage and promote school
policies and practices that work for
children.
• To challenge those that, however
well-intentioned, have a harmful
impact.
• To afford particular concern for
those children who are chronically
underserved by public schools.
THE INTERNATIONAL
INSTITUTE OF
METROPOLITAN DETROIT, INC.
111 East Kirby Street
Detroit, MI 48202
Tel: (313) 871-8600
Fax: (313) 871-1651
The International Institute of
Metropolitan Detroit, Inc. provides
areas:
• Immigration/Social Services
• Refugee Resettlement
• Ethnic Enrichment
• Languages/ESL Education
THE SALVATION ARMY WILLIAM
BOOTH LEGAL AID CLINIC
Serves: Eastern Michigan
The Salvation Army
Harbor Light Center
2643 Park Ave.
Detroit, MI 48201
Tel: (313) 961-2201
Fax (313) 961-6288
E-mail: wblac@aol.com
The Salvation Ar my William
Booth Legal Aid Clinic provides
free legal services to people who
are pre-screened and referred to us
by the Eastern Michigan Division of
The Salvation Army in the following
areas:
• Divorce/Family Law
• Landlord/Tenant
• Public Benefits and Entitlements
• Juvenile/Guardianships
• Immigration
• Child/Spouse Abuse
• Traffic Offense
• Criminal Matters
THIRD LEVEL CRISIS CENTER
FREE LEGAL AID CLINIC/LEGAL
SERVICES PROGRAM
Serves: Antrim, Grand Traverse
and Leelanau Counties
1022 E. Front Street
Tel: (231) 922-4800
Crisis Line: 800-442-7315
Fax: (231) 941-5786
Website: www.traverse.net/members/thirdlevel/index.htm
Third Level Crisis Center Free
Legal Aid Clinic/Legal Services
Program provides services in the
• Divorces without contested custody
• Landlord/Tenant
• Consumer Issues
• Governmental Entitlements
• Miscellaneous on a case by case
basis
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, INC.
P.O. Box 2451
Saginaw, MI 48605
Tel: (989) 755-0413
The purpose of Underground
Railroad, Inc. is to provide shelter
and services (including legal services) for survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking.
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
LAW SCHOOL CLINICAL
LAW PROGRAM
Serves: Washtenaw County
Michigan Clinical Law Program
363 Legal Research Building
801 Monroe Street
Tel: (734) 763–4319
Fax (734) 764-4702
Clinics: Asylum and Refugee,
Civil, Criminal, Neighborhood
Legal, and Poverty
University of Michigan Law
School provides services in the following legal areas through the clinics named above:
• Housing
• Consumer Issues
• Civil Rights
• Employment Discrimination
• Immigration Law
• Refugee Law
VOLUNTEER CIVIL LAW PROJECT
(In conjunction with Legal Aid and
Defender Association of Detroit.)
Detroit, MI 48226
Tel: (313) 961–6120
Fax: (313) 965-0842
Volunteer Civil Law Project provides services in the following legal
areas:
• All types of civil law
• Provides client meeting location
WAYNE STATE
UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL
468 Ferry Mall
Tel: (313) 577-3348
Fax: (313) 577-2620
Clinics: Free Legal Aid Clinic
(FLAC), Disability Law Clinic, Nonprofit Cor porations and Urban
Development Law Clinic, Criminal
Appellate Practice, and Civil Rights
Litigation Clinic
Wayne State University Law
School provides services in the following legal areas through the clinics named above:
• Litigation
• Administrative Law
• Transactional Work
WEST SIDE MOTHERS
WELFARE RIGHTS
ORGANIZATION
23 East Adams
Detroit, MI 48226
Tel: (313) 964-3980
Fax: (313) 965-4328
West Side Mothers Welfare
Rights Organization provides services in the following areas:
• Social Security Hearings
• Family Independence Agency
Hearings
WOMEN'S JUSTICE CENTER
Detroit, MI 48226
Tel: (313) 961–5528
Fax (313) 961-4057
Women’s Justice Center provides services in the following legal
areas:
• Domestic Violence
• General Family Law; Divorce and
Custody Actions, Paternity
• Landlord/Tenant
• Abuse and Neglect
WOMEN'S SURVIVAL CENTER
Serves: Oakland County
761 W. Huron Street, 2nd Floor
Pontiac, MI 48341
Tel: (248) 335–2685 (business line)
(248) 335–1520 (information/referral line)
Fax (248) 745–0192
Women’s Survival Center provides services in the following legal
areas:
• Adoptions
• Family Law
• Juvenile Defense
• Paternity
• Protective Services
• Probate
• Wills and Trusts
• Social Security
• Contracts
• Landlord/Tenant
• Bankruptcy
• Collections
• Workers Compensation
• Civil Rights
• Discrimination
• Wrongful Discharge
• Sexual Harassment
• Immigration
• Malpractice
• Personal Injury
• Product Liability
• Criminal
• Traffic Violations
YWCA OF GRAND RAPIDS
25 Sheldon SE
Tel: (616) 459-4681
The purpose of the YWCA of
Grand Rapids is to empower
women, promote diversity and
advocate for justice and equality.
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Michigan Prosecuting Attorneys Directory
ATTORNEY GENERAL
Mike Cox
G. Mennen Williams Law Bldg.
525 W. Ottawa, 7th Floor
P.O. Box 30212
Lansing, MI 48909
(517) 373-1110
[Main Office/Lansing]
www.ag.state.mi.us
(313) 256-2519 [Detroit Office]
(616) 356-0400
[Grand Rapids Office]
(313) 256-2892
[Computer/Internet Crime]
(517) 373-1140
[Consumer Protection]
(517) 373-3042 [Fax]
(517) 373-1111 [TDD]
ALCONA
Thomas J. Weichel
County Courthouse
106 5th St., P.O. Box 189
Harrisville, MI 48740
(989) 724-9460
(989) 724-9469 [Fax]
E-mail:
tweichel@northland.lib.mi.us
www.michiganprosecutor.org/
alcona/
ALGER
Karen Bahrman
Courthouse Complex
101 E. Varnum St.
Munising, MI 49862
(906) 387-2117
(906) 387-2200 [Fax]
alger/
ALLEGAN
Frederick L. Anderson
County Building
113 Chestnut
Allegan, MI 49010
(269) 673-0280
(269) 673-0599 [Fax]
www.allegancounty.org/
Government/ProsecutingAtty
allegan/
ALPENA
Ed Black
County Annex
719 Chisholm
Alpena, MI 49707
(989) 354-9738
(989) 354-9788 [Fax]
alpena/
ANTRIM
Charles H. Koop
1905 Courthouse, P.O. Box 280
Bellaire, MI 49615
(231) 533-6860
(231) 533-5718 [Fax]
www.antrimcounty.org/
prosecutor.asp/
antrim/
ARENAC
Curtis Broughton
120 N. Grove, P.O. Box 1309
Standish, MI 48658
(989) 846-4597
(989) 846-6271 [Fax]
arenac/
BARAGA
Joseph O’Leary
12 N. Third
Courthouse Annex
L’Anse, MI 49946
(906) 524-5440
(906) 524-5832 [Fax]
baraga/
BARRY
Thomas E. Evans
220 W. Court Street, Suite 201
Hastings, MI 49058
(269) 945-1297
(269) 948-3316 [Fax]
www.barrycounty.org/courts-andlaw-enforcement/prosecutingattorney/
barry/
BAY
Kurt Asbury
Bay County Courthouse
1230 Washington Ave, Suite 768
Bay City, MI 48708
(989) 895-4185
(989) 895-4167 [Fax]
www.co.bay.mi.us/bay/home.nsf/
Public/ProsecutorsOffice.htm
bay/
BENZIE
John Daugherty
Government Center
448 Court Place, P.O. Box 377
Beulah, MI 49617
(231) 882-0043
(231) 882-0559[Fax]
www.benzieco.net/dept
prosecutor.htm
benzie/
BERRIEN
Arthur J. Cotter
Main Office
County Courthouse
811 Port St.
St. Joseph, MI 49085
(269) 983-7111, ext. 8311
(269) 983-5757 [Fax]
Niles Office
1205 N. Front Street
Niles, MI 49120
(616) 684-5274
U.S. ATTORNEY
Eastern District
Stephen J. Murphy III
211 W. Fort St., Suite 2001
Detroit, MI 48226
(313) 226-9100
(313) 226-4609 [Fax]
www.usdoj.gov/usao/mie/
U.S. ATTORNEY
Western District
Donald A. Davis
330 Ionia NW
P.O. Box 208
(616) 456-2404
(616) 456-2408 [Fax]
www.usdoj.gov/usao/miw/
Flint Office
210 Federal Building
600 Church Street
Flint, MI 48502
(810) 766-5177
(810) 766-5427 [Fax]
Bay City Office
101 First St, Suite 200
Bay City, MI 48708
(517) 895-5712
(517) 895-5790 [Fax]
Prosecutor’s Support Division FIA
408 8th Street
Benton Harbor, MI 49022
(616) 934-2250
www.berriencounty.org/
E-mail: acotter@berriencounty.org
berrien/
BRANCH
Terri Norris
Courthouse
31 Division St.
Coldwater, MI 49036
(517) 279-4319, ext. 0
(517) 279-6437 [Fax]
www.countyofbranch.com/
branch/
CALHOUN
Susan K. Mladenoff
Justice Complex
161 E. Michigan
Battle Creek, MI 49014
(269) 969-6976
(269) 969-6967 [Fax]
www.calhouncountymi.org/Departments/ProsecutingAttorney.htm
calhoun/
CASS
Victor A. Fitz
Cass County Law and
Courts Building
60296 M-62, Suite 6
Cassopolis, MI 49031
(269) 445-4460
(269) 445-8629 [after 4pm]
(269) 445-4409 [Fax]
cass/
CHARLEVOIX
John Jarema
County Building Annex
301 State St.
Charlevoix, MI 49720
(231) 547-7207
(231) 547-7262 [Fax]
www.charlevoixcounty.org/
prosecutor.asp
charlevoix/
Information Source: Michigan Prosecuting
Attorneys Coordinating Council Web site —
www.michiganprosecutor.org
DICKINSON
Stephanie Brule
300 East D, P.O. Box 609
Iron Mountain, MI 49801
(906) 774-1294
(906) 774-8603 [Fax]
dickinson/
EATON
Jeffrey L. Sauter
1045 Independence Blvd.
Charlotte, MI 48813
(517) 543-4801, x1265
(517) 543-3348 [Fax]
(517) 543-0738/485-0673
[Witnesses]
http://207.74.121.45/Prosecutor/
Index.htm
E-mail: prosecutingattorney@
eatoncounty.org
eaton/
IRON
Melissa Powell Weston
2 S. Sixth St., Suite 1
Crystal Falls, MI 49920-1413
(906) 875-6628
(906) 875-0646 [Fax]
http://www.iron.org/edc/
gov-prosecutor.php
E-mail: mpowellweston@iron.org
iron/
GENESEE
David Leyton
Courthouse, Rm. 200
900 S. Saginaw
Flint, MI 48502
(810) 257-3210
(810) 257-3219[Fax]
www.co.genesee.mi.us/
prosecutors
genesee/
JACKSON
Henry C. Zavislak
312 S. Jackson St.
Jackson, MI 49201
(517) 788-4283
(517) 780-4714 [Fax]
(517) 780-4767 - Child Support
(517) 780-4771 - Child Supp [Fax]
(517) 788-4072 - Victim Rights
http://www.co.jackson.mi.us/
Prosecutor/
jackson/
GLADWIN
Aaron W. Miller
401 W. Cedar
Gladwin, MI 48624
(989) 426-8592
(989) 426-4248 [Fax]
http://gladwinco.com/prosecutor
gladwin/
CHIPPEWA
Brian A. Peppler
County Courthouse
319 Court St.
Sault Ste. Marie, MI 49783
(906) 635-6342
(906) 635-6850 [Fax]
chippewa/
GRAND TRAVERSE
Al Schneider
324 Court St.
(231) 922-4600
(231) 922-4698 [Fax]
www.co.grand-traverse.mi.us/
grandtraverse/
CLARE
Michelle Ambrozaitis
225 W. Main St., P.O. Box 586
Harrison, MI 48625
(989) 539-9831, ext. 2605
(989) 539-1807 [Fax]
www.clareco.net/Prosecutor/
home.htm
clare/
GRATIOT
Keith J. Kushion
214 E. Center St.
Ithaca, MI 48847
(989) 875-5236
(989) 875-5298 [Fax]
www.co.gratiot.mi.us/prosecutor/
index.htm
E-mail:
prosecutor@co.gratiot.mi.us
gratiot/
DELTA
Steve Parks
310 Ludington
Escanaba, MI 49829
(906) 789-5115
(906) 789-5149 [Fax]
delta/
IOSCO
Gary W. Rapp
County Building
P.O. Box 548
422 Lake St.
Tawas City, MI 48763
(989) 362-6141
(989) 984-1106 [Fax]
www.iosco.m33access.com/
prosecutor.htm
iosco/
ISABELLA
Larry J. Burdick
200 N. Main
Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858
(989) 772-0911 ext. 311
(989) 775-8413 [Fax]
http://www.isabellacounty.org/pa
isabella/
GOGEBIC
Richard B. Adams
Courthouse
200 N. Moore
Bessemer, MI 49911
(906) 667-0471
(906) 663-1102 [Fax]
www.gogebic.org/pros.htm
gogebic/
CRAWFORD
Everett Ayers
Courthouse
200 W. Michigan Ave.
Grayling, MI 49738
(989) 348-2844, ext. 246
(989) 348-7582 [Fax]
www.crawfordco.org/offices/
prosecutor.htm
crawford/
IONIA
Ron Schafer
Courthouse
100 Main St.
Ionia, MI 48846
(616) 527-5302
www.ioniacounty.org/prosecutor/
homepage.asp
ionia/
EMMET
James R. Linderman
City-County Building
200 Division St.
Petoskey, MI 49770
(231) 348-1725
(231) 348-0686 [Fax]
www.co.emmet.mi.us/
prosattny
emmet/
CHEBOYGAN
Daryl Vizina
County Building
870 S. Main, P.O. Box 70
Cheboygan, MI 49721
(231) 627-8450
(231) 627-8405 [Fax]
www.cheboygancounty.net/
pages/prosecuting attorney/
cheboygan/
CLINTON
Charles D. Sherman
County Courthouse
Suite 3100, 100 E. State St.
St. Johns, MI 48879
(989) 224-5260
(989) 224-5259 [Fax]
www.co.clinton.mi.us/
prosecutor.html
clinton/
INGHAM
Stuart J. Dunnings, III
303 W. Kalamazoo St., 2nd Fl.
Lansing, MI 48933
(517) 483-6108
(517) 483-6397 [Fax]
(517) 483-6545 [PPOs]
(517) 483-6256 [Victim/Witness]
www.ingham.org/PA/PAindex.htm
E-mail: padunnings@ingham.org
ingham/
KALAMAZOO
Jeffery R. Fink
227 W. Michigan Ave.
Kalamazoo, MI 49007
(269) 383-8900
(269) 383-0475 [Fax]
www.kalcounty.com/opa/
kalamazoo/
KALKASKA
Brian Donnelly
Courthouse
605 N. Birch St.
Kalkaska, MI 49646
(231) 258-3325
(231) 258-3339 [Fax]
kalkaska/
KENT
William A. Forsyth
82 Ionia Ave., NW
Suite 450
(616) 632-6710
(616) 632-6714 [Fax]
www.accesskent.com/Courts
AndLawEnforcement/
ProsecutorsOffice/pros index.htm
kent/
KEWEENAW
Donna L. Jaaskelainen
316 Sixth St.
Calumet, MI 49913
(906) 337-6802
(906) 482-6804 [Fax]
keweenaw/
HILLSDALE
Neal A. Brady
61 McCollum St.
Hillsdale, MI 49242
(517) 439-1419
(517) 439-5141 [Fax]
hillsdale/
LAKE
Michael J. Riley
800 10th St., P.O. Box 428
Baldwin, MI 49304
(231) 745-2775
(231) 745-6224 [Fax]
E-mail: Prosecutor@co.lake.mi.us
lake/
HOUGHTON
Fraser Strome
County Courthouse
401 E. Houghton Ave.
Houghton, MI 49931
(906) 482-3214
(906) 487-5961 [Fax]
houghton/
LAPEER
Byron Konschuh
255 Clay St.
Lapeer, MI 48446
(810) 667-0326
(810) 667-0340 [Fax]
www.prosecutors.county.lapeer.org
lapeer/
HURON
Timothy Rutkowski
Huron County Building
250 E. Huron Ave., Ste 103
Bad Axe, MI 48413-1317
(989) 269-9255
(989) 269-2744 [Fax]
E-mail:
gaertnerm@co.huron.mi.us
huron/
LEELANAU
Joseph T. Hubbell
8527 E. Government Center Drive,
Suite 202
Suttons Bay, MI 49682
(231) 256-9872
(231) 256-0133 [Fax]
www.leelanaucounty.com/
coprosecutor.asp/
leelanau/
LENAWEE
Jonathan L. Poer
425 N. Main St.
Adrian, MI 49221
(517) 264-4640
(517) 265-9314 [Fax]
http://www.lenawee.mi.us/
prosecuting attorney/index/htm
lenawee/
LIVINGSTON
David L. Morse
210 Highlander Way
Howell, MI 48843
(517) 546-1850
(517) 546-0728 [Fax]
//co.livingston.mi.us/
Prosecutor
livingston/
LUCE
Peter Tazelaar II
407 W. Harrie St.
Newberry, MI 49868
(906) 293-3277
(906) 293-4890 [Fax]
luce/
MACKINAC
Fred Feleppa
100 North Marley Street
St. Ignace, MI 49781
(906) 643-7329/7331
(906) 643-6530 [Fax]
www.mackinaccounty.net/
content/view/20/43/
mackinac/
MACOMB
Eric J. Smith
1 South Main St.
Mt. Clemens, MI 48043
(586) 469-5350
(586) 469-5609 [Fax]
(586) 469-5675 [Victim Rights]
http://macombcountymi.gov/
PROSECUTORSOFFICE/
index.asp
macomb/
MANISTEE
Ford K. Stone
Courthouse
415 Third St.
Manistee, MI 49660
(231) 723-7518
(231) 723-1727 [Fax]
www.manisteecounty.net/
manistee/
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updates or changes please fax information to (313) 961-3082
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MONTCALM
Andrea Krause
621 North State St., P.O. Box 38
Stanton, MI 48888
(989) 831-7327
(989) 831-7417 [Fax]
http://www.montcalm.org/
prosecutor.asp
E-mail: akrause@co.montcalm.mi.us
montcalm/
MONTMORENCY
Terrie J. Case
County Courthouse, M-32 East
P.O. Box 789
Atlanta, MI 49709
(989) 785-8070
(989) 785-8071 [Fax]
E-mail:
montprosecutor@yahoo.com
montmorency/
MUSKEGON
Tony D. Tague
County Building, 5th Floor
990 Terrace
Muskegon, MI 49442
(231) 724-6435
(231) 724-6685 [Fax]
www.co.muskegon.mi.us/
prosecutor/
muskegon/
NEWAYGO
Chrystal Roach
1092 Newell, P.O. Box 885
White Cloud, MI 49349
(231) 689-7283
(231) 689-7289 [Fax]
www.countyonewaygo.com/
PA/PAHome.htm
newaygo/
OAKLAND
Jessica Cooper
1200 N. Telegraph
Pontiac, MI 48341
(248) 858-0656
(248) 452-2208 [Fax]
www.co.oakland.mi.us/prosatty/
oakland/
OCEANA
Terry L. Shaw
P.O. Box 169, 100 State St.
Hart, MI 49420
(231) 873-4608
(231) 873-8955 [Fax]
oceana/
MARQUETTE
Gary L. Walker
Courthouse Annex
234 W. Baraga Ave.
Marquette, MI 49855
(906) 225-8310
(906) 228-1649 [Fax]
www.co.marquette.mi.us/
prosecut.htm
marquette/
OGEMAW
LaDona Schultz
County Bldg. #109
806 W. Houghton Ave.
West Branch, MI 48661
(989) 345-5700
(989) 345-5913 [Fax]
www.ogemacountymi.gov/
prosecuting/index.php
ogemaw/
MASON
Paul Spaniola
County Courthouse
304 E. Ludington Ave.
Ludington, MI 49431
(231) 845-7377
(231) 845-8125 [Fax]
www.masoncounty.net
mason/
ONTONAGON
James Jessup
Courthouse
725 Greenland Rd.
Ontonagon, MI 49953
(906) 884-4155
(906) 884-2916 [Fax]
ontonagon/
MECOSTA
Peter Jaklevic
Courthouse
400 Elm St.
Big Rapids, MI 49307
(231) 592-0141
(231) 796-3050 [Fax]
www.co.mecosta.mi.us/
prosecuting.asp
mecosta/
MENOMINEE
Daniel E. Hass
Courthouse
839 10th Ave.
Menominee, MI 49858
(906) 863-2002
(906) 863-2980 [Fax]
www.menomineecounty.com
menominee/
MIDLAND
Michael Carpenter
Courthouse
301 W. Main
Midland, MI 48640
(989) 832-6722
(989) 832-6393 [Fax]
http://www.co.midland.mi.us/
departments/home.php
midland/
MISSAUKEE
William Donnelly, Jr.
209 S. Canal, P.O. Box 363
Lake City, MI 49651
(231) 839-3111
(231) 839-3869 [Fax]
www.missaukee.org/prosdept.htm
E-mail:
prosecutor@missaukee.org
missaukee/
MONROE
William P. Nichols
125 East Second St.
Monroe, MI 48162
(734) 240-7600
(734) 240-7626 [Fax]
//www.co.monroe.mi.us/monroe/
default.aspx
monroe/
OSCEOLA
James Sims
410 W. Upton
Reed City, MI 49677
(231) 832-3226
(231) 832-6147 [Fax]
osceola/
OSCODA
Kathleen Solomon
105 S. Court, P.O. Box 399
Mio, MI 48647
(989) 826-1120
(989) 826-1188 [Fax]
www.oscodacountymi.com
oscoda/
OTSEGO
Kyle Legel
100 Livingston Blvd.
P.O. Box 367
Gaylord, MI 49734
(989) 731-7430
(989) 731-7433 [after 4:30 pm]
(989) 731-7449 [Fax]
www.otsegocountymi.gov/
prosecutor/prosecutor.htm
otsego/
OTTAWA
Ronald J. Frantz
Main Office
County Building, Room 201
414 Washington
Grand Haven, MI 49417
(616) 846-8215
(616) 846-8178 [Fax]
Holland Office
57 W. 8th St., Suite 110
Holland, MI 49423-3103
(616) 392-1446
www.miottawa.org/CourtsLE/
Prosecutor/
ottawa/
PRESQUE ISLE
Richard Steiger
Courthouse
P.O. Box 110, 151 E. Huron Ave.
Rogers City, MI 49779
(989) 734-4709
(989) 734-7667 [Fax]
presqueisle/
ROSCOMMON
Mark Jernigan
500 Lake St., P.O. Box 425
Roscommon, MI 48653
(989) 275-5233
(989) 275-3024 [Fax]
www.roscommoncounty.net/
Courts/prosecutor.htm
roscommon/
SAGINAW
Michael D. Thomas
Courthouse
111 S. Michigan Ave.
Saginaw, MI 48602
(989) 790-5330
(989) 792-0803 [Fax]
saginaw/
SANILAC
James V. Young
Courthouse
60 W. Sanilac
Sandusky, MI 48471
(810) 648-3402
(810) 648-2332 [Fax]
E-mail: jyoung@avci.net
sanilac/
SCHOOLCRAFT
Peter J. Hollenbeck
County Building, Rm. 209
300 Walnut St.
Manistique, MI 49854
(906) 341-3691
(906) 341-8220 [Fax]
schoolcraft/
SHIAWASSEE
Randy O. Colbry
201 N. Shiawassee
Surbeck Bldg., 2nd Fl.
Corunna, MI 48817
(989) 743-2373
(989) 743-2237 [Fax]
E-mail:
scpa@shianet.org
shiawassee/
ST. CLAIR
Mike Wendling
301 County Building
201 McMorran Blvd.
Port Huron, MI 48060
(810) 985-2400
(810) 985-2424 [Fax]
www.stclaircounty.org/Offices/
prosecuting attorney/
E-mail:
countypa@stclaircounty.org
stclair/
ST. JOSEPH
John McDonough
Courthouse
125 Main St., P.O. Box 250
Centreville, MI 49032
(269) 467-5547
(269) 467-5628 [Fax]
www.stjosephcountymi.org/
prosecutingatty.htm
stjoseph/
TUSCOLA
Mark Reene
Courthouse
440 N. State St.
Caro, MI 48723
(989) 672-3900
(989) 673-8612 [Fax]
tuscola/
VAN BUREN
Juris Kaps
Courthouse
212 Paw Paw St.
Paw Paw, MI 49079
(616) 657-8236
(616) 657-1944 [Fax]
(616) 637-5177 - S. Haven
(616) 637-9169 - S. Haven [Fax]
vanburen/
WASHTENAW
Brian L. Mackie
Courthouse
P.O. Box 8645
200 N. Main, Suite 320
(734) 222-6620
(734) 222-6610 [Fax]
www.ewashtenaw.org/
government/prosecuting_
attorney/pa_index.html
E-mail:
mackieb@ewashtenaw.org
washtenaw/
WAYNE
Kym L. Worthy
Main Office
Frank Murphy Hall of Justice
1441 St. Antoine
Detroit, MI 48226
(313) 224-5777
(313) 224-0974 [Fax]
Juvenile Division
(313) 833-3300
www.waynecounty.com/
prosecutor
wayne/
WEXFORD
Mark Smathers
1200 S. Mitchell, P.O. Box 863
Cadillac, MI 49601
(231) 779-9505
(231) 779-9108 [Fax]
www.wexfordcounty.org/
Courts/Prosecutor/
E-mail:
mark@wexfordcounty.org
wexford/
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Michigan Attorney General’s Consumer Protection Division — Complaint Directory
Michigan Department of Attorney General Consumer Protection Division • PO Box 30213 • Lansing MI 48909 • 517-373-1140 • Toll free: 877-765-8388 • Web site: http://www.michigan.gov/ag
(This Complaint Directory is available on the Attorney General’s website at http://www.michigan.gov/ag ) Last update: 5/2007
Not all consumer complaints/inquires are handled by the Attorney General's Consumer Protection Division, however. By law, many other state and federal agencies and departments are involved in assisting consumers.
To direct your complaint/inquiry to the appropriate agency, consult our Consumer Complaint Directory.
CLASSIFICATION
ADVERTISING
State
AGENCY
ADDRESS/PHONE/WEB
Office of the Attorney General
Consumer Protection Division
National
Federal Trade Commission
Consumer Response Center
PO Box 30213
Lansing MI 48909
877-765-8388 (toll free in MI)
http://www.michigan.gov/ag
600 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington DC 20580
877-382-4357 (toll free)
9:00 AM-8:00 PM EST
http://www.ftc.gov
General PO Box 30755
Lansing MI 48909
517-373-1123
ANTITRUST
Office of the Attorney
Special Litigation Section
AUTOMOBILES/MOTORCYCLES
Used Car & Dealer
Secretary of State
Problems, Repair Facilities,
Bureau of Regulatory Services
Odometers
Out of state callers
Automobiles Within the
Manufacturer’s Warranty
Safety Recall Information
US Dept of Transportation
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
Center for Auto Safety
BAIL BONDSMEN
State
BANKS
State
National
Bank Issued Credit Cards
Dept of Labor & Economic Growth
Office of Financial & Insurance Serv
Office of Financial & Insurance Serv
Consumer Services
Comptroller of the Currency
Customer Assistance Group
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
(FDIC)
BUILDERS & HOME IMPROVEMENT COMPANIES
(Completion date within 18
Bureau of Commercial Services
months and over $600.00)
Commercial Enforcement Division
(Completion date over 18
months or under $600.00)
License Verification
CANADIAN SCAMS
Scams based in or mailed from
Phone Busters
E-Mail
Advanced Fee Fraud (including Nigerian & Lottery Scams)
CHARITIES
Licensing & Solicitation
Charitable Trust Section
CHILD SUPPORT
“Dead-Beat” Parents
Dead-Beat” Parents
Complaints vs. Friend of the Court
COLLECTIONS
Creditor Collection Practices
Child Support Division
Pay Kids Foundation
Friend of the Court Bureau
State Court Administrative Office
Third Party Collection Agencies
CONTRACTORS
(electrical, plumber, mechanical)
Labor & Economic Growth
Bureau of Construction Codes
General Complaints
Complaints vs. Licensed Electrical
Complaints vs. Licensed Plumbers
Complaints vs. Licensed Mechanical
CORPORATIONS
"Register Agent" Info
Corporation Division
CREDIT CARD FRAUD
Credit Card Companies
Unauthorized Charges
CREDIT REPORTING
BUREAUS
US Secret Service
Fraud Dept
CREDIT UNIONS
State Chartered
Office of Financial & Insurance Serv.
Credit Union Division
Federally Chartered
National Credit Union Admin.
Region I – Albany
DISCRIMINATION/CIVIL RIGHTS
Dept of Civil Rights
DRUGS
Prescription & Over-the-Counter
EDUCATION
Private Occupational Schools
US Food and Drug Administration
Office of Regulatory Affairs
Detroit District
MI Dept of Education
Proprietary School Unit
General Info:
PO Box 30046
Lansing MI 48909
517-636-6400
http://www.michigan.gov/sos
PO Box 30213
Lansing MI 48909
400 7th St SW Rm 5232
Washington DC 20590
800-424-9393 (toll free)
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov
2001 S Street NW Ste 410
Washington DC 20009
202-328-7700
http://www.autosafety.org
PO Box 30220
Lansing MI 48909
http://www.michigan.gov/cis
PO Box 30224
Lansing MI 48909
517-373-0220
1301 McKinney St, Ste 3450
Houston TX 77010
800-613-6743 (toll free)
http://www.occ.treas.gov
2345 Grand Boulevard, Ste 100
Kansas City MO 64108
800-378-9581 (toll free)
816-234-9060 (fax)
http://www.fdic.gov
PO Box 30018
Lansing MI 48909
517-241-9202
PO Box 30213
Lansing MI 48909
517-241-9254
http://www.cis.state.mi.us/verify.htm
Box 686
North Bay, Ontario, Canada
P1B 8J8
888-495-8501 (toll free in US)
888-654-9426 (fax)
http://http://www.phonebusters.com
info@phonebusters.com
wafl@phonebusters.com
PO Box 30214
Lansing MI 48909
517-373-1152
PO Box 30758
Lansing MI 48909
517-373-1111
PO Box 13222
Lansing MI 48933
866-PAY-KIDS (729-5437)
734-674-6807 (Complaint Line)
http://www.paykids.com
Michigan Hall of Justice
PO Box 30048
Lansing MI 48909
517-373-5975
517-373-8740 (fax)
E-Mail focb@courts.mi.gov
PO Box 30213
Lansing MI 48909
PO Box 30018
Lansing MI 48909
517-241-9202
PO Box 30222
Lansing MI 48909
517-241-9347
517-241-9320
517-241-9330
517-241-9325
PO Box 30054
Lansing MI 48909-7554
517-241-6470
PO Box 30213
Lansing MI 48909
1000 Patrick McNamara Bldg
477 Michigan Ave
Detroit MI 48226
313-226-6400
http://www.ifccfbi.gov
PO Box 30213
Lansing MI 48909
Washington DC 20580
877-382-4357 (toll free)
9:00 AM-8:00 PM EST
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/menu-credit.htm
PO Box 30224
Lansing MI 48909
9 Washington Square
Washington Avenue Extension
Albany NY 12205
518-862-7400
http://www.ncua.gov
800-482-3604 (toll free)
http://www.michigan.gov/mdcr
300 River Place Suite 5900
Detroit MI 48207
313-393-8100
http://www.fda.gov
PO Box 30008
Lansing MI 48909
517-373-6774
517-373-3324
http://www.michigan.gov/mde
CLASSIFICATION
EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES
Licensing and Complaints
ENERGY
Public Utility Service Complaints
Energy Assistance Hotline
FEDERAL INFORMATION
FOOD
Accurate Weights & Measures,
Food Quality
Food & Seafood Quality
Meat & Poultry Quality
FREE ANNUAL CREDIT
REPORTS
FUNERAL HOMES &
OPERATORS
GASOLINE
Fuel Quality & Measurement
HEALTH CARE
Nursing & Health Facility
AGENCY
ADDRESS/PHONE/WEB
Office of Commercial Services
PO Box 30018
Lansing MI 48909
517-241-9202
Public Service Commission
Complaint Hotline
http://www.michigan.gov/mpsc
Family Independence Agency
PO Box 30221
Lansing MI 48909
MI Dept of Agriculture
Laboratory Division
Food & Dairy Division
US Food & Drug Administration
Detroit Regional Office
Food & Seafood Info Line
US Dept of Agriculture
Food Safety & Inspection Service
Meat & Poultry Hotline
3 Free per year from each
of the 3 Major Credit Report Agencies
Enforcement Division
Bureau of Health Systems
Complaint Hotline
HOMELAND SECURITY
Federal
US Dept of Homeland Security
State
MI Dept of Homeland Security
HOUSING
MI State Housing Dev. Auth.
Radon Levels
Dept of Environmental Quality
Radiological Protection Div.
Mold Levels
Dept of Community Health
Local Mold Information
INSURANCE
ITEM PRICING
Overcharges
Non-pricing
JUDICIAL TENURE COMM.
Complaints vs. Judges
Laboratory Division
MI Judicial Tenure Commission
E-mail:
LANDLORD/TENANT
Complaints
Michigan State University
College of Law
E-mail:
LAWYERS
Complaints
Michigan Supreme Court
Attorney Grievance Commission
Referrals
State Bar of Michigan
Lawyer Referral Service
LICENSED PROFESSIONS AND/OR OCCUPATIONS
Individual Healthcare Providers
Bureau of Health Services
Complaint & Allegations Division
Other Licensed Professions
(See Contractors for add'l info)
Enforcement Division
License Verification Hotline
MAIL FRAUD SCHEMES
US Postal Inspection Service
National USPS Fraud Hotline
MILITARY & VETERAN AFFAIRS
State
Dept of Military & Veteran Affairs
MOBILE HOMES/PARKS
Licensing
Office of Local Government
Park Problems
(Including Water Rates & Complaints)
MORTGAGE COMPANIES
Office Financial & Insurance Services
Licensing & Enforcement Division
MOVERS
Intrastate
Local
POLICE
Safety & Compliance Section
Office of Attorney General
MI State Police
General Info
http://www.michigan.gov/fia
800-FED-INFO (333-4636)
940 Venture Lane
Williamston MI 48895
http://www.michigan.gov/mda
P.O. Box 30017
Lansing MI 48909
1-800-292-3939
517-373-1060
1560 E Jefferson
Detroit MI 48207
313-226-6260
http://www.fda.gov
800-332-4010 (toll free)
Room 1175, South Building
1400 Independence Ave. SW
Washington DC 20250
202-720-7943
http://www.fsis.usda.gov
800-535-4555 (toll free)
877-322-8228 (toll free in USA)
CLASSIFICATION
POLICE (continued)
AGENCY
Arson Tip Line
HEMP Tip Line
Internet Safety
Methamphetamine Labs
PRODUCT SAFETY
Consumer Product Safety Comm.
PRODUCT WARRANTY
& DEFECTS
PYRAMID SCHEMES,
FRANCHISES & BUSINESS
OPPORTUNITIES
Franchise Section
REAL ESTATE/REALTORS
SAVINGS & LOANS
Federal
US Dept of Treasury
Office of Thrift Supervision
Consumer Affairs
State
STOCKS/BONDS/SECURITIES
Corporation, Securities, and
Land Development Bureau
401(k)’s (State Employees)
Dept of Management & Budget
Office of Retirement Services
Non-State Retirement
US Dept of Labor Frances
800-MDA-FUEL (632-3835)
STUDENT LOANS
PO Box 30664
Lansing MI 48909
517-334-8408
MI Dept of Education Ombudsman
MI Dept of Treasury-Fed Stafford Loan
MI Dept of Treasury-Fed Perkins Loan
Federal Student Aid Info Center
Assistance and Student Loan Authority
TAXES
Federal
PO Box 30018
Lansing MI 48909
517-241-9202
Washington DC 20528
800-BE-READY (237-3239)
http://www.dhs.gov
PO Box 30212
Lansing MI 48909
517-335-5747
http://www.michigan.gov/homeland
PO Box 30044
Lansing MI 48909
517-373-8370
http://www.michigan.gov/mshda
PO Box 30630
231-775-3960
800-RADON GAS (723-6642)
http://www.michigan.gov/deqradon
800-648-6942 (hotline)
517-335-9436
PO Box 30220
Lansing MI 48909
PO Box 30213
Lansing MI 48909
940 Venture Lane
Williamston MI 48895
517-655-8202
1-800-292-3939 Toll free
3034 West Grand Blvd, Ste 8-450
Detroit MI 48202
313-875-5110
313-875-5154 (fax)
judicialtenure@courts.mi.gov
http://jtc.courts.mi.gov
PO Box 30213
Lansing MI 48909
Rental Housing Clinic
541 E. Grand River
PO Box 310
East Lansing MI 48826
517-336-8088
clinic@law.msu.edu
http://www.law.msu.edu/rhc/
243 W Congress Ste 256
Detroit MI 48226
313-961-6585
313-961-5819 (fax)
http://www.agcmi.com
306 Townsend St
Lansing MI 48933
800-968-0738 (toll-free MI Only)
Out-of-State Callers 517-346-6300
517-482-6248 (fax)
http://www.michbar.org
PO Box 30670
Lansing MI 48909
517-373-9196
PO Box 30018
Lansing MI 48909
517-241-9202
517-241-9254
PO Box 330119
Detroit MI 48232-6119
313-226-8184
800-372-8347
http://www.usps.com/postalinspectors/
2500 South Washington Ave
517-483-5500
http://www.michigan.gov/dmva
PO Box 30703
Lansing MI 48909
517-241-9317
517-241-9347
PO Box 30224
Lansing MI 48909
PO Box 30221
Lansing MI 48909
517-241-6030
517-241-6031 (fax)
PO Box 30213
Lansing MI 48909
714 S. Harrison Road
517-332-2521
Internal Revenue Service
State
MI Dept of Treasury
Income tax
Sales/Use/Withholding Tax
Tobacco
MI Dept of Treasury
Carbonated Beverage
Container Deposits
TELEMARKETING
Federal
MI Dept of Treasury
Sales/Use/Withholding Tax
ADDRESS/PHONE/WEB
800-44-ARSON (442-7766)
800-235-HEMP (235-4367)
877-5CYBER3 (529-2373)
866-METH-TIP (638-4847)
http://www.michigan.gov/msp
Washington DC 20207
800-638-2772 (toll free)
http://www.cpsc.gov
PO Box 30213
Lansing MI 48909
PO Box 30213
Lansing MI 48909
517-373-7117
PO Box 30018
Lansing MI 48909
517-241-9202
1475 Peachtree Street NE
Atlanta GA 30309
404-888-0771
http://www.ots.treas.gov
PO Box 30224
Lansing MI 48909
PO Box 30222
Lansing MI 48909
PO Box 30171
Lansing MI 48909
800-381-5111 (toll free)
http://www.michigan.gov/ors
Perkins Building
200 Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington DC 20210
800-998-7542 (toll free)
http://www.dol.gov
800-433-3243 (toll free)
http://www.mi-studentaid.org
800-TAX-1040 (829-1040)
http://www.irs.ustreas.gov
Lansing MI 48922
517-636-4730
http://www.michigan.gov/treasury
Lansing MI 48922
Lansing MI 48922
517-636-4730
Washington DC 20580
877-382-4357 (toll free)
9:00 AM-8:00 PM (EST)
888-382-1222 (toll free)
FTC Do Not Call Registry
(must call from number to be registered) http://www.ftc.gov
State
PO Box 30213
Lansing MI 48909
TOYS & OTHER DANGEROUS PRODUCTS/SUBSTANCES
Washington DC 20207
US Consumer Product
Federal
800-638-2772 (toll free)
Safety Commission
http://www.cpsc.gov
PO Box 30017
State
Food & Dairy Division
Lansing MI 48909
TRAVEL
400 Seventh Street SW #4107
US Dept of Transportation
Air Service Complaints
Aviation Consumer Protection Div.
Washington DC 20590
202-366-2220
E-mail: airconsumer@ost.dot.gov
http://airconsumer.ost.dot.gov/
Federal Aviation Administration
800 Independence Ave SW
Air Safety
Safety Hotline
Washington DC 20591
800-322-7873 (toll free)
http://www.faa.gov
Railway Safety
Federal Railroad Administration
400 Seventh St SW
Office of Safety
Washington DC 20590
202-632-3700
http://www.fra.dot.gov/
Travel Agencies/Tour Operators
PO Box 30213
Lansing MI 48909
UTILITIES
PO Box 30221
Lansing MI 48909
Complaint Hotline
PO Box 30476
WAGES
Wage Hour Division
Lansing MI 48909
517-335-0400
MISCELLANEOUS RESOURCES
Automobile Dispute Resolution
1500 Kendale Blvd
Nat’l Automobile Dealers Association.
Automotive Consumer Action
Program (AUTOCAP)
517-351-7800
Hotline
800-292-1923 (toll free)
Chrysler Corporation
Chrysler Customer Center
(Chrysler, Plymouth, Dodge, Jeep)
PO Box 21-8004
Auburn Hills MI 48321
800-992-1997 (toll free)
http://www.chryslercorp.com
Customer Relationship Center
Ford Motor Co.
(Ford, Lincoln, Mercury)
PO Box 6248
Dearborn MI 48121
800-392-3673 (toll free)
http://www.ford.com
http://www.gm.com
General Motors Corporation
Buick
800-521-7300 (toll free)
800-458-8006 (toll free)
Cadillac
800-222-1020 (toll free)
Chevrolet
GMC
800-462-8782 (toll free)
Oldsmobile
800-422-6537 (toll free)
Pontiac
800-762-2737 (toll free)
800-553-6000 (toll free)
Saturn
Better Business Bureaus
Eastern Michigan
30555 Southfield Rd Ste 200
Southfield MI 48076
& Upper Peninsula
248-644-9100
Complaints
248-644-5026 (fax)
In Flint
810-232-1239
info@easternmichiganbbb.org
E-mail
http://www.easternmichiganbbb.org
Western Michigan
Grand Rapids MI 49503
616-774-8236
616-774-2014 (fax)
Hotline (Western MI only)
E-mail
bbbinfo@iserv.net
http://www.grandrapids.bbb.org
Hillsdale, Monroe, Lenawee Cos.
Toledo OH 43606
419-531-3116
419-578-6001 (fax)
Hotline (OH, SW MI only)
info@toledobbb.org
E-mail
http://www.toledobbb.org
City/County Agencies
City of Detroit
1600 Cadillac Tower
Detroit MI 48226
313-224-3508
Information
Complaints
313-224-6995
40 N Main St 6th Floor
Macomb County Prosecutor
Mt Clemens MI 48043
Consumer Protection Dept
810-469-5350
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State Tax Liens
Register of Deeds
The following state and federal
tax liens have been rounded to
the nearest dollar.
209155760 47847 643 $14,078.16 3/25/2009GTE
BYBLOS SHORES INC GTR MIT
209155761 47847 644 $6,295.41 3/25/2009GTE
FRAME X INC GTE JANS SIGNS INC GTR MIT
209155762 47847 645 $3,847.39 3/25/2009GTE
PAUL R SWANSON & ASSOC PC GTR MIT
209155763 47847 646 $4,991.80 3/25/2009GTE
SAM OCO CORP GTR MIT
209155764 47847 647 $20,099.74 3/25/2009GTE
RECYCLEMAX INC GTR MIT
209155765 47847 648 $6,240.98 3/25/2009GTE
PRO LINE BUILDING INC GTR MIT
209155766 47847 649 $13,943.44 3/25/2009GTE
BANKS ENTERPRISE LLC GTR MIT
209155767 47847 650 $5,443.12 3/25/2009GTE
DAVIS BROTHERS COLLISION CLINIC INC GTR
MIT
209155768 47847 651 $19,024.29 3/25/2009GTE
ELDORADO USA INC GTR MIT
209155769 47847 652 $6,569.61 3/25/2009GTE
SMITH HELEN C GTR MIT
209155770 47847 653 $1,452.47 3/25/2009GTE
CLARK GILBERT T GTR MIT
209155771 47847 654 $1,676.25 3/25/2009GTE
BARKER CHARLOTTE A GTR MIT
209155784 47847 667 $1,299.37 3/25/2009GTE
AYALA REYNA H GTR MIT
209155772 47847 655 $886.05 3/25/2009GTE
THOMPSON PAUL A GTR MIT
209155785 47847 668 $1,043.99 3/25/2009GTE
MERRITT RAYMOND A GTR MIT
209155773 47847 656 $867.86 3/25/2009GTE
WILDER CHRISTOPHER K GTR MIT
209155786 47847 669 $947.94 3/25/2009GTE
GRANT MARKISHA R GTR MIT
209155774 47847 657 $1,725.57 3/25/2009GTE
MILLER STEVE GTR MIT
209155787 47847 670 $656.80 3/25/2009GTE
WILSON NICOLE R GTR MIT
209155775 47847 658 $1,461.24 3/25/2009GTE
MORRISON SHEENAH GTR MIT
209155788 47847 671 $1,101.73 3/25/2009GTE
JONES MILES I GTR MIT
209155776 47847 659 $1,236.77 3/25/2009GTE
THOMAS CARMEN GTR MIT
209155789 47847 672 $1,101.41 3/25/2009GTE
REDDICK SHIRLEY GTR MIT
209155777 47847 660 $3,148.72 3/25/2009GTE
SMITH ANTASHA D GTR MIT
209155790 47847 673 $1,704.70 3/25/2009GTE
JOHNSON STEPHANIE GTR MIT
209155778 47847 661 $562.83 3/25/2009GTE
S K Y N A R G R E G O RY A G T E S K Y N A R K I M M
GTR MIT
209155791 47847 674 $2,791.23 3/25/2009GTE
TUPPER DEIDRIC I GTE TUPPER NATASHA C
GTR MIT
209155779 47847 662 $800.61 3/25/2009GTE
COGBURN DONNIE GTR MIT
209155792 47847 675 $2,097.99 3/25/2009GTE
GRAY ROBERT GTR MIT
209155780 47847 663 $625.77 3/25/2009GTE
PANCOAST GALE E GTE PANCOAST JEFFREY
W GTR MIT
209155793 47847 676 $517.51 3/25/2009GTE
WHITE JAMIE Y GTR MIT
209155781 47847 664 $517.21 3/25/2009GTE
GARLAND DAVID GTR MIT
209155782 47847 665 $862.06 3/25/2009GTE
REED ANDREA S GTR MIT
209155783 47847 666 $579.67 3/25/2009GTE
LANE KATHLEEN M GTE LANE WILLIAM E GTR
MIT
209155794 47847 677 $1,116.53 3/25/2009GTE
RICKSTAD CATHY S GTR MIT
209155795 47847 678 $960.00 3/25/2009GTE
BLACKMON ANGELO A GTR MIT
209155796 47847 679 $714.27 3/25/2009GTE
HEARNS ROBIN GTR MIT
209155797 47847 680 $1,325.01 3/25/2009GTE
JACKSON NOLA L GTR MIT
209155798 47847 681 $1,664.40 3/25/2009GTE
RUSSELL LILLIAN GTR MIT
209155799 47847 682 $521.12 3/25/2009GTE
BURNS TOMMY D JR GTR MIT
209155800 47847 683 $880.44 3/25/2009GTE
BLOODSAW LATONJA M GTR MIT
209155801 47847 684 $973.95 3/25/2009GTE
WILKERSON ROBERT L GTR MIT
209155802 47847 685 $1,225.24 3/25/2009GTE
SMITH ALMA GTR MIT
209155803 47847 686 $1,053.12 3/25/2009GTE
BAKER LOVER GTR MIT
209155804 47847 687 $1,348.27 3/25/2009GTE
OLIVER HOSIE L III GTR MIT
209155805 47847 688 $1,026.29 3/25/2009GTE
PRICE JOE J JR GTR MIT
209155806 47847 689 $6,742.33 3/25/2009GTE
MARTINEZ JUAN A GTR MIT
209155807 47847 690 $86,231.31 3/26/2009GTE
ANJALI INC GTR MIT
209155808 47847 693 $11,279.12 3/26/2009GTE
A B C O M O B I L E H O M E S E RV I C E I N C G T R
MIT
209155809 47847 695 $6,807.02 3/26/2009GTE
SHERMAN EQUIPMENT CO GTR MIT
209155810 47847 697 $200,428.82 3/26/2009GTE
OMEGA ON SOUTHFIELD INC GTR MIT
209155811 47847 699 $4,057.04 3/26/2009GTE
CUISINE INC GTR MIT
209155812 47847 700 $6,364.69 3/26/2009GTE
PAPA ROMANOS OF WAYNE GTE YUMMY BOYS
INC GTR MIT
209155813 47847 701 $45,744.28 3/26/2009GTE
6500 GRATIOT AVE INC GTE 6500 GRATIOT
AVENUE GTR MIT
209155814 47847 702 $13,454.64 3/26/2009GTE
HORIZON INTERESTS INC GTE INTERIORS
H O R I Z O N M I L LWO R K M F G G T E J D & M I L L WORK MID AMERICA GTR MIT
209155815 47847 703 $2,069.99 3/26/2009GTE
NEW SPEED AUTP TECH INC GTR MIT
209155816 47847 704 $6,021.00 3/26/2009GTE Z
& Z ENTERPRISES INC GTR MIT
209155817 47847 705 $10,664.05 3/26/2009GTE
WALKER JEFFREY GTR MIT
209155818 47847 706 $4,433.72 3/26/2009GTE J
WEST SALON II PC GTR MIT
209155819 47847 707 $1,431.73 3/26/2009GTE
JENKINS NORENE GTR MIT
209155820 47847 708 $628.75 3/26/2009GTE
NATION LARRY GTR MIT
209155821 47847 709 $508.17 3/26/2009GTE
WALKER GREGORY GTR MIT
209155822 47847 710 $531.36 3/26/2009GTE
WARE DAVID K GTR MIT
209155823 47847 711 $1,108.31 3/26/2009GTE
ETTER CHRISTY D GTR MIT
209155824 47847 712 $1,383.76 3/26/2009GTE
PONIUS SHIRLEY GTR MIT
209155825 47847 713 $1,512.90 3/26/2009GTE
HAYNES RILEY JR GTR MIT
209155826 47847 714 $1,069.58 3/26/2009GTE
REAVES VINCENT L GTR MIT
209155827 47847 715 $820.02 3/26/2009GTE
THOMAS WILBERT D GTR MIT
209155828 47847 716 $5,858.98 3/26/2009GTE
RUTTENBURG ANDREA L GTR MIT
209155829 47847 717 $1,282.92 3/26/2009GTE
HINES KIMYANA W GTR MIT
209155830 47847 718 $509.79 3/26/2009GTE
LAKES GARY L GTR MIT
209155831 47847 719 $960.57 3/26/2009GTE
JONES CHAKESHA GTR MIT
209155832 47847 720 $2,845.53 3/26/2009GTE
BOLINGER MARTIN R GTR MIT
209155833 47847 721 $1,249.91 3/26/2009GTE
SCOTT KIMBERLY GTR MIT
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209155834 47847 722 $937.67 3/26/2009GTE
JONES TASHA GTR MIT
209155835 47847 723 $941.36 3/26/2009GTE
SOLTESZ JOSEPH A GTR MIT
209155836 47847 724 $807.43 3/26/2009GTE
TRUXELL TOD C GTR MIT
209155837 47847 725 $869.86 3/26/2009GTE
MIDDLEDITCH JAY W GTR MIT
209155838 47847 726 $590.36 3/26/2009GTE
THOMPSON MARCUS GTR MIT
209155839 47847 727 $509.27 3/26/2009GTE
PHILLIPS BEVERLY S GTE PHILLIPS GARY L
GTR MIT
209155840 47847 728 $1,937.74 3/26/2009GTE
FARDOUN ELIZABETH M GTR MIT
209155841 47847 729 $957.29 3/26/2009GTE
TALLEY WARREN GTR MIT
209155842 47847 730 $919.05 3/26/2009GTE
GREEN ALFRED W GTE GREEN VANESSA GTR
MIT
209155868 47847 756 $1,133.06 3/26/2009GTE
HESTER RACHEL N GTR MIT
209155885 47847 773 $2,200.28 3/26/2009GTE
GRICE VERONIQUE D GTR MIT
209155902 47847 790 $508.34 3/26/2009GTE
GADSON FRANK GTR MIT
209155869 47847 757 $1,545.29 3/26/2009GTE
KRAUS PAUL GTR MIT
209155886 47847 774 $511.90 3/26/2009GTE
WATKINS ANGELA GTR MIT
209155903 47847 791 $971.09 3/26/2009GTE
HAWKINS EDWIN D JR GTR MIT
209155870 47847 758 $1,295.04 3/26/2009GTE
LOCKHART YOLANDA GTR MIT
209155887 47847 775 $545.97 3/26/2009GTE
GILLESPIE TAMMIE A GTR MIT
209155904 47847 792 $1,299.05 3/26/2009GTE
AKIL AHMAD GTE AKIL SOUAD F GTR MIT
209155871 47847 759 $1,637.44 3/26/2009GTE
BROWN DANIEL L GTR MIT
209155888 47847 776 $712.71 3/26/2009GTE
AUSTIN YOLANDA A GTR MIT
209155905 47847 793 $1,337.04 3/26/2009GTE
NELSON CARMELLA GTR MIT
209155872 47847 760 $625.10 3/26/2009GTE
CROSS ROSELL JR GTR MIT
209155889 47847 777 $945.79 3/26/2009GTE
SANDELIN KENNETH L GTR MIT
209155906 47847 794 $1,547.07 3/26/2009GTE
PRATT DWAYNE P GTR MIT
209155873 47847 761 $2,840.98 3/26/2009GTE
STONGE JENNIFER L GTR MIT
209155890 47847 778 $986.38 3/26/2009GTE
HUDSON ALESE M GTR MIT
209155907 47847 795 $1,205.91 3/26/2009GTE
VACHON TORRENCE L GTR MIT
209155874 47847 762 $1,351.35 3/26/2009GTE
EARLY SHIRLEY J GTR MIT
209155891 47847 779 $2,913.44 3/26/2009GTE
LANG YVETTE E GTR MIT
209155908 47847 796 $546.55 3/26/2009GTE
RICHMOND SEAN J GTR MIT
209155875 47847 763 $1,889.27 3/26/2009GTE
DAVIS MARCIA A GTR MIT
209155892 47847 780 $890.05 3/26/2009GTE
DAVIS KELI GTR MIT
209155909 47847 797 $811.96 3/26/2009GTE
BRYANT CARLOS F GTR MIT
209155876 47847 764 $2,314.52 3/26/2009GTE
DELLEPELLE ANTHONY GTR MIT
209155893 47847 781 $1,271.12 3/26/2009GTE
KERSTEIN JAMES F GTR MIT
209155910 47847 798 $738.20 3/26/2009GTE
OLSON MATTHEW J GTR MIT
209155877 47847 765 $2,068.35 3/26/2009GTE
ROBERT PAUL GTR MIT
209155894 47847 782 $10,781.20 3/26/2009GTE
ROBERSON RAYMOND M GTR MIT
209155911 47847 799 $590.69 3/26/2009GTE
LITTLETON STEPHINE GTR MIT
209155878 47847 766 $3,061.30 3/26/2009GTE
KADRICH BRYAN GTE KADRICH MARGARET
GTR MIT
209155895 47847 783 $3,341.03 3/26/2009GTE
WILLIAMS JOHN T GTR MIT
209155912 47847 800 $924.04 3/26/2009GTE
JUSTICE KEVIN M GTR MIT
209155896 47847 784 $869.32 3/26/2009GTE
HOWARD ALYSON S GTE HOWARD KENNETH
W GTR MIT
209155913 47847 801 $519.89 3/26/2009GTE
CRANE LAWRENCE J GTR MIT
209155879 47847 767 $761.54 3/26/2009GTE
YOUNG LADONNA GTR MIT
209155880 47847 768 $1,106.90 3/26/2009GTE
AYRES LISA R GTE AYRES TIM R GTR MIT
209155897 47847 785 $908.27 3/26/2009GTE
LLOYD CHINTELE GTR MIT
209155914 47847 802 $1,779.15 3/26/2009GTE
A S C E N C I O N J UA N I TA
GTE ASCENCION
MIGUEL GTR MIT
209155843 47847 731 $977.38 3/26/2009GTE
WINCEL LOIS E GTE WINCEL RALPH M GTR
MIT
209155881 47847 769 $1,869.66 3/26/2009GTE
BIRD JASON GTR MIT
209155898 47847 786 $1,848.14 3/26/2009GTE
REDMOND DANIEL GTR MIT
209155915 47847 803 $4,741.39 3/26/2009GTE
SHELTON JIMMY A GTR MIT
209155844 47847 732 $2,586.09 3/26/2009GTE
SELLS FRED GTR MIT
209155882 47847 770 $863.88 3/26/2009GTE
GARY PAMELA GTR MIT
209155899 47847 787 $952.85 3/26/2009GTE
MCCULLOUGH ESSIE M GTR MIT
209155916 47847 804 $607.84 3/26/2009GTE
HODGES GLENN J GTE HODGES TRACEY L
GTR MIT
209155845 47847 733 $1,301.07 3/26/2009GTE
WOODS MARIE GTR MIT
209155883 47847 771 $990.82 3/26/2009GTE
PATINO NORMA GTR MIT
209155900 47847 788 $553.10 3/26/2009GTE
SHAVERS DAMON D GTR MIT
209155846 47847 734 $546.87 3/26/2009GTE
WYCHE KIMBERLY GTR MIT
209155884 47847 772 $1,327.01 3/26/2009GTE
FAILS DWIGHT GTR MIT
209155901 47847 789 $914.98 3/26/2009GTE
ROBERTS PAUL GTR MIT
209155847 47847 735 $976.64 3/26/2009GTE
TERRY ROSYLAND GTR MIT
209155848 47847 736 $1,248.77 3/26/2009GTE
DANDRIDGE LAWERENCE GTR MIT
209155849 47847 737 $548.46 3/26/2009GTE
HUNT DONALD D GTE HUNT SUZETTE A GTR
MIT
209155850 47847 738 $2,981.22 3/26/2009GTE
SMITH FREDERICKA GTR MIT
209155851 47847 739 $1,257.80 3/26/2009GTE
WALK TRACEY Y GTR MIT
209155852 47847 740 $2,048.42 3/26/2009GTE
KELLY TRACEY A GTR MIT
209155853 47847 741 $1,173.26 3/26/2009GTE
TYSON DEMETRIA R GTR MIT
209155854 47847 742 $954.07 3/26/2009GTE
BOWEN PAUL D GTR MIT
209155855 47847 743 $22,281.30 3/26/2009GTE
GRAY MICHAEL A GTR MIT
209155856 47847 744 $566.35 3/26/2009GTE
ROMERO RAUL A GTR MIT
209155857 47847 745 $677.78 3/26/2009GTE
CHANDLER CASEY A GTR MIT
209155858 47847 746 $1,094.37 3/26/2009GTE
ALIAHMAD MARK GTR MIT
209155859 47847 747 $2,264.63 3/26/2009GTE
GAMBLIN MELVIN L GTR MIT
209155860 47847 748 $1,406.71 3/26/2009GTE
BENNETT JEFFREY GTR MIT
209155861 47847 749 $846.49 3/26/2009GTE
GARDNER ANGELA L GTR MIT
209155862 47847 750 $870.19 3/26/2009GTE
BUTLER TYSHANDA M GTR MIT
209155863 47847 751 $6,028.26 3/26/2009GTE
SHEVROVICH SCOTT B GTR MIT
209155864 47847 752 $532.69 3/26/2009GTE
SMITH THEODORE A GTR MIT
209155865 47847 753 $518.51 3/26/2009GTE
THOMAS ERICK R GTR MIT
209155866 47847 754 $941.43 3/26/2009GTE
HICKS LAURIE A GTE HICKS TERRY L GTR
MIT
209155867 47847 755 $522.09 3/26/2009GTE
WHITFIELD JOSEPH R GTR MIT
209155917 47847 805 $867.07 3/26/2009GTE
PARRISH KEITH D GTR MIT
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209155918 47847 806 $917.93 3/26/2009GTE
THOMAS GREGORY GTR MIT
209155919 47847 807 $995.69 3/26/2009GTE
KOCHER ROBERT GTR MIT
209155920 47847 808 $777.60 3/26/2009GTE
THOMAS SHELIA R GTR MIT
209155931 47847 819 $3,538.86 3/26/2009GTE
PARKER MACKENZIE N GTR MIT
209155947 47847 835 $1,670.13 3/27/2009GTE
QUINN JOSEPH A GTR MIT
209155983 47847 871 $1,394.74 3/27/2009GTE
WINFREY MILLICENT G GTR MIT
209155932 47847 820 $1,028.05 3/26/2009GTE
ROBERTSON BERNARD GTR MIT
209155948 47847 836 $524.00 3/27/2009GTE
TARRAF GHASSAN H GTE TARRAF RANIA G
GTR MIT
209155984 47847 872 $1,723.43 3/27/2009GTE
RICHTER LEROY W GTR MIT
209155933 47847 821 $2,240.73 3/26/2009GTE
DIAZ LINDA GTR MIT
209155934 47847 822 $10,598.60 3/27/2009GTE
RANA ABIDA GTR MIT
209155935 47847 823 $5,495.65 3/27/2009GTE
BIROU STELIAN S GTR MIT
209155936 47847 824 $6,597.81 3/27/2009GTE
LEOS TRANSPORT INC GTR MIT
209155921 47847 809 $526.97 3/26/2009GTE
SCHMELZER SHAWN M GTR MIT
209155937 47847 825 $10,422.81 3/27/2009GTE
C A B L E C O M M U N I C AT I O N S P U B L I C B E N E F I T
CORP GTR MIT
209155922 47847 810 $596.82 3/26/2009GTE
UPSHAW CATRINA A GTR MIT
209155938 47847 826 $2,137.64 3/27/2009GTE R
& L COLOR GRAPHICS INC GTR MIT
209155923 47847 811 $1,218.67 3/26/2009GTE
RAGLAND BRENDA GTE STPETER JASON GTR
MIT
209155939 47847 827 $6,732.85 3/27/2009GTE
PHOENIX COMMUNITIES INC GTR MIT
209155924 47847 812 $1,379.16 3/26/2009GTE
PARKER WARREN J GTR MIT
209155925 47847 813 $1,261.09 3/26/2009GTE
WOODS LAFAYE C GTR MIT
209155940 47847 828 $4,497.26 3/27/2009GTE
DAYTONA CONTRACTING CO INC GTR MIT
209155941 47847 829 $6,548.88 3/27/2009GTE
GENESIS SAND & GRAVEL INC GTR MIT
209155926 47847 814 $530.88 3/26/2009GTE
BRYAN SHERMAN GTR MIT
209155942 47847 830 $6,597.81 3/27/2009GTE
DY E R L E A N N G T E W O N D E R F U L E X P R E S S
GTR MIT
209155927 47847 815 $516.58 3/26/2009GTE
RIES CHRISTOPHER A GTR MIT
209155943 47847 831 $1,485.40 3/27/2009GTE
MERRIMAN RICK E GTR MIT
209155928 47847 816 $1,279.40 3/26/2009GTE
WHITE SHIRLEY GTR MIT
209155944 47847 832 $4,904.53 3/27/2009GTE
WILLIAMS BETTY S GTR MIT
209155929 47847 817 $23,599.99 3/26/2009GTE
GARCIA JAIME GTR MIT
209155945 47847 833 $7,322.38 3/27/2009GTE
CEASAR LONNIE GTR MIT
209155930 47847 818 $1,339.34 3/26/2009GTE
NUNEZ B M GTE NUNEZ GABRIEL GTR MIT
209155946 47847 834 $730.74 3/27/2009GTE
TAYLOR GARY R GTR MIT
209155949 47847 837 $1,470.31 3/27/2009GTE
CALMESE FRANK V GTR MIT
209155950 47847 838 $683.23 3/27/2009GTE
BURRELL DARRETT GTR MIT
209155951 47847 839 $833.53 3/27/2009GTE
DICKERSON LINEOUS GTE DICKERSON ROGINA L GTR MIT
209155952 47847 840 $951.94 3/27/2009GTE
BOGUS TAVARIS L GTR MIT
209155953 47847 841 $752.13 3/27/2009GTE
PATTERSON GARY GTR MIT
209155954 47847 842 $5,339.01 3/27/2009GTE
LESHORE WANDA GTR MIT
209155985 47847 873 $3,395.31 3/27/2009GTE
GENTILE KENNETH P GTR MIT
209155986 47847 874 $4,545.15 3/27/2009GTE
BELL ERIC L II GTE BELL KEELY A GTR MIT
209155987 47847 875 $879.03 3/27/2009GTE
SPARKS LAURIE GTE SPARKS TERRY W GTR
MIT
209155988 47847 876 $26,329.62 3/27/2009GTE
WELLS RAYMOND GTR MIT
209155989 47847 877 $7,261.07 3/27/2009GTE
CANADA FAYE GTR MIT
209155990 47847 878 $1,054.44 3/27/2009GTE
JOHNSON ALFRED GTR MIT
209155955 47847 843 $1,623.86 3/27/2009GTE
GILBERT JOHNNY S GTR MIT
209155991 47847 879 $1,455.98 3/27/2009GTE
M AT T H E W S C H A R L E S L G T E M AT T H E W S
SHAUNTE GTR MIT
209155956 47847 844 $828.00 3/27/2009GTE
CRAWFORD MARY GTE CRAWFORD REGINALD
GTR MIT
209155992 47847 880 $1,163.93 3/27/2009GTE
GHOSSEIN ALI I GTE GHOSSEIN AMAL GTR
MIT
209155957 47847 845 $641.14 3/27/2009GTE
RINGO CHRISTINA GTR MIT
209155993 47847 881 $1,589.76 3/27/2009GTE
LODOLO GENA GTE LODOLO JOHN M GTR
MIT
209155958 47847 846 $642.11 3/27/2009GTE
WATSON CALVIN A GTE WATSON KARA V GTR
MIT
209155994 47847 882 $537.95 3/27/2009GTE
JOHNSON JENNIFER J IV GTR MIT
209155959 47847 847 $889.10 3/27/2009GTE
TELL GEORGIA GTR MIT
209155995 47847 883 $647.04 3/27/2009GTE
SWINFORD BILL R GTR MIT
209155960 47847 848 $1,126.00 3/27/2009GTE
CURETON CORLISS GTR MIT
209155996 47847 884 $924.28 3/27/2009GTE
MONROE LOIS A GTR MIT
209155961 47847 849 $849.90 3/27/2009GTE
HUNTER RENA GTR MIT
209155997 47847 885 $1,605.86 3/27/2009GTE
ROMAN JULIO C GTR MIT
209155962 47847 850 $3,198.49 3/27/2009GTE
CARR LAKIESHA M GTR MIT
209155998 47847 886 $32,249.21 3/30/2009GTE
OAK LEAF L L C GTR MIT
209155963 47847 851 $559.00 3/27/2009GTE
WADE DEANGELO GTR MIT
209155999 47847 887 $8,172.44 3/30/2009GTE
GTR
DEARBORN MART & FUEL INC
MIT
209155964 47847 852 $2,858.68 3/27/2009GTE
MACLIN AKEIA M GTR MIT
209155965 47847 853 $1,505.90 3/27/2009GTE
JOYCE MICHAEL GTR MIT
209156000 47847 888 $3,737.94 3/30/2009GTE
GOOD BREAD CO OF MICHIGAN DEARBORN
LLC GTR MIT
209155966 47847 854 $891.13 3/27/2009GTE
RUSSELL CAROLYN O GTR MIT
209156001 47847 889 $2,379.41 3/30/2009GTE 4
BROTHERS TRUCK & TRAILERS SERVICES INC
GTR MIT
209155967 47847 855 $1,116.47 3/27/2009GTE
MOON SHONDRA GTR MIT
209156002 47847 890 $4,344.52 3/30/2009GTE
OAKMAN WHOLESALE INC GTR MIT
209155968 47847 856 $2,313.36 3/27/2009GTE
EVERETT CHRISTINE A GTR MIT
209156003 47847 891 $2,070.14 3/30/2009GTE K
& S CUSTOMS LLC GTR MIT
209155969 47847 857 $835.47 3/27/2009GTE
KOZLOWSKI JULIA GTR MIT
209156004 47847 892 $4,567.30 3/30/2009GTE
HARGROW & ASSOC INC GTR MIT
209155970 47847 858 $2,457.30 3/27/2009GTE
HORTON THOMAS S GTR MIT
209156005 47847 893 $10,017.83 3/30/2009GTE
RBK AUTOMATION INC GTR MIT
209155971 47847 859 $933.47 3/27/2009GTE
RO D R I G U E Z B A R B A R A A G T E RO D R I G U E Z
RALPH GTR MIT
209156006 47847 894 $27,159.78 3/30/2009GTE
THABATA DIAB GTR MIT
209155972 47847 860 $1,024.69 3/27/2009GTE
JACKSON STACY J GTR MIT
209155973 47847 861 $1,522.89 3/27/2009GTE
CANNON GWENDOLYN GTR MIT
209155974 47847 862 $972.50 3/27/2009GTE
KELL MICHAEL J GTR MIT
209155975 47847 863 $1,169.53 3/27/2009GTE
W E S T B RO O K G R E G O RY G T E W E S T B RO O K
WENDY R GTR MIT
209155976 47847 864 $543.33 3/27/2009GTE
KORHONEN RONALD C GTR MIT
209155977 47847 865 $1,220.00 3/27/2009GTE
KADAF FADI J GTR MIT
209156007 47847 895 $94,017.42 3/30/2009GTE
BONKS BAY L L C GTR MIT
209156008 47847 896 $788.60 3/30/2009GTE
CARY LOSSIE GTR MIT
209156009 47847 897 $1,293.06 3/30/2009GTE
HINTON WYNORA GTR MIT
209156010 47847 898 $3,697.29 3/30/2009GTE
JOHNSON LULA B GTR MIT
209156011 47847 899 $983.61 3/30/2009GTE
HOHMANN THOMAS M GTR MIT
209156012 47847 900 $7,761.10 3/30/2009GTE
HICKS JOHNNIE GTR MIT
209156013 47847 901 $3,271.36 3/30/2009GTE
SEALES SERENA L GTR MIT
209155978 47847 866 $1,340.00 3/27/2009GTE
KERR CHRISTIE A GTE KERR EDWIN JR GTR
MIT
209156014 47847 902 $2,180.83 3/30/2009GTE
CARSWELL NICOLE GTR MIT
209155979 47847 867 $1,531.53 3/27/2009GTE
STINER TRACI K GTR MIT
209156015 47847 903 $9,674.47 3/30/2009GTE
SMITH CORTEZ GTR MIT
209155980 47847 868 $829.89 3/27/2009GTE
JONES EDMOND A GTE JONES TINA L GTR
MIT
209156016 47847 904 $723.83 3/30/2009GTE
MARSHALL CHAUNDRA L GTR MIT
209155981 47847 869 $816.16 3/27/2009GTE
ALSTON KENNETH GTR MIT
209155982 47847 870 $1,489.93 3/27/2009GTE
JAMES ALICE M GTR MIT
209156017 47847 905 $1,270.81 3/30/2009GTE
MURPHY CLIFTON J GTR MIT
209156018 47847 906 $656.80 3/30/2009GTE
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209156019 47847 907 $2,170.23 3/30/2009GTE
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209156020 47847 908 $1,867.03 3/30/2009GTE
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209156023 47847 911 $887.95 3/30/2009GTE
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RICKETT GORDON GTR MIT
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ROBINSON ANTHONY E GTR MIT
209156034 47847 922 $1,296.97 3/30/2009GTE
PINGSTON RUTH A GTR MIT
209156035 47847 923 $1,642.88 3/30/2009GTE
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209156036 47847 924 $1,159.20 3/30/2009GTE
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GAMBRELL MILVIA GTR MIT
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MIT
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209156047 47847 935 $738.31 3/30/2009GTE
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MIT
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GTR MIT
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MIT
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MIT
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GTR MIT
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ENTERPRISES INC GTR MIT
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Book Case
ROBERTA A. CORNETTA, THE DAILY RECORD NEWSWIRE
‘Three Felonies’ an
indictment against
Justice Department
Three Felonies a Day: How
the Feds Target the Innocent
By Harvey A. Silverglate
Encounter Books, 2009
306 pages; $25.95
In a work that is sure to stir
sharp public debate, veteran
Massachusetts defense-attorney-turned-author Harvey A.
Silverglate examines the legally
and politically charged issues
sur rounding recent federal
criminal prosecutions.
The author begins with the
premise that federal criminal
statutes have become so pervasive and ambiguous that every
person in America can be seen
to have committed a federal
crime any time a prosecutor
subjectively deter mines the
same.
Added to this theor y is
Silverglate’s suggestion that
federal prosecutions frequently
are brought for other than
legitimate law enforcement purposes.
“Three Felonies a Day” borrows heavily from a host of
locally and nationally prominent federal criminal cases to
espouse a compelling argument
that the Justice Department’s
U.S. attorneys’ off ices have
developed a pattern of prosecution that plays to personal and
political agendas while discarding the framework of constitutional due process and fairness.
Silverglate, no stranger to
federal criminal defense work,
analyzes a series of cases tightly
grouped within eight chapters to
make the point that in such
diverse areas as prosecutions of
politicians, doctors, drug companies, lawyers and accounting
firms, U.S. attorneys have misapplied vague federal criminal
statutes and used the tactics of
indicting low-level suspects,
plying them with promises and
then “rolling” them to deliver
“the big kahuna.”
The author relates cases of
local interest involving attempts
by the government to indict former Boston Mayor Kevin White
and the prosecutions of former
Massachusetts House Speaker
Thomas Finneran and criminal
defense attorney William Cintolo in proffering his theme of
prosecutors overstepping legally
permissible bounds in interpreting and employing federal criminal law.
He goes on to cite cases
involving, among others,
Michael Milken, former Miami
Mayor Raul Martinez, attorney
Philip Russell of Connecticut
and the Ar thur Andersen
accounting firm in examining
just how prosecutors have made
national headlines while disregarding due process and exacting pleas from defendants under
the threat of long prison terms
and personal and financial ruin.
Added to this collection of
noteworthy prosecutions, Silverglate further examines the
prosecutions of Martha Stewart,
Enron and its executives, and
non profit groups and, in one
instance, even the threatened
prosecution of the American
Bar Association in discussing
how he believes federal prose-
cutors, the FBI, DEA and SEC
have often turned to criminal
prosecutions where clearly civil
action only was warranted.
Lest the potential reader
believe this work is simply a
rehash of prior criminal prosecutions and old news, it should
be noted that the author goes
behind the scenes and in depth
to reveal his analysis of tactics
that have been used by federal
prosecutors in, among other
things, visiting potential witnesses (and future indictment
targets) with strong, if not
threatening, messages to cooperate or else.
Silverglate
recounts
instances of out-of-control
inducements and rewards made
to government witnesses and
the employment of whistleblower rewards in the tens of millions of dollars, which just
might influence testimony.
The author posits a vexing
examination of federal criminal
law said to be enacted in deliberately vague language so that it
might be applied to citizens. In
one example of such an unintended result, Silverglate
recounts the use by prosecutors
of the Sarbanes-Oxley federal
investment reporting statute in
seeking to pierce attorney-client
privilege. He goes on to identify
the federal RICO statute as a
prosecutorial vehicle he sees as
both overused and misused by
prosecutors.
The “chilling effect” of such
prosecutions on business, professional and political figures is
reviewed in depth, while the
aftermath of such prosecutions
is portrayed in the vivid light of
ruined reputations, f inancial
wipeout, divorce and mental
anguish.
Of particular interest is the
number of federal convictions
that end up reversed by circuit
courts of appeals.
Meanwhile, the now-exonerated defendant is left to figure
out how to get his reputation
back, recover from bankruptcy
and put his life together again,
often having spent months in
jail awaiting the outcome of his
appeal.
And while Silverglate
recounts the details of these
prosecutions and those who
have brought them around the
country, he is not content to
leave his subject matter there.
In both an earnest and candid
foreword by Alan M. Dershowitz (could Alan pen anything less?), and a sobering conclusion by the author, both writers plainly warn that only when
prosecutors, judges and defense
attorneys assume strong initiatives to uphold constitutional
due process and fairness in the
face of such attempted prosecutions will the public be safe and
secure in their constitutional
rights.
As the book concludes,
unless the organized bar and
public are prepared to stand up
for these rights, the bell “tolls
for us all.”
—————
Robert A. Cornetta is presiding justice of the Salem District
Court in Salem, Mass.
Across the Nation
CALIFORNIA
Drug dealer found guilty of murdering 15-year-old
Kidnapping and murder were basis for 2007 movie “Alpha Dog”
BY JACOB ADELMAN
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.
(AP) — Marijuana dealer Jesse
James Hollywood faces a possible
death sentence after his conviction
for kidnapping and murdering a
15-year-old boy over an escalating
drug debt, a crime that inspired
the 2007 movie “Alpha Dog.”
A Santa Barbara Superior
Court jury on Wednesday also
found Hollywood guilty of the
special circumstance allegation of
being a principal in a murder
committed in the course of a kidnapping and being involved in a
crime in which an assault weapon
or machine gun was used, making
him eligible for the death penalty.
The jury deliberated for about
four days. Hollywood, 29, stared
straight ahead as the verdict was
read.
“I can’t believe they found
him guilty of that murder,” his
father, Jack Hollywood, said out-
WASHINGTON (AP) —
States across the country are violating part of the federal “motor
voter” law requiring voter registration help for low-income residents, according to a coalition of
advocacy groups trying to force
change through the courts.
The groups filed a lawsuit in
Indiana Thursday and planned to
sue in New Mexico later in the
day, on the heels of a successful
settlement in Missouri. They say
the problem is not isolated in
those few states, but widespread
across the nation and they are trying to help other states follow the
law without litigation.
Brenda Wright, director of the
Democracy Program at the nonprofit group Demos, one of the
groups behind the lawsuits, said
2.6 million people were registered through public assistance
off ices in 1995-1996, the f irst
two years the law was in effect.
But she said registration has
dropped precipitously throughout
the nation since then, as much as
90 percent or more in some
states.
Wright said 2 million to 3 million more low-income people
could be registered each year if
all states followed the law.
The suits say that the states are
violating the 1993 National Voter
Registration Act, commonly
known as “motor voter” because
Hoyt months before the murder.
Prosecutors did not call Hoyt
as a witness — the one person
who could definitely say if Hollywood ordered the slaying. Also
left out of Hollywood’s trial were
Jesse Rugge and William Skidmore, two others convicted in the
case.
Prosecutors contend Hollywood decided to get rid of
Nicholas after learning from an
attorney that he could face life in
prison for kidnapping. They also
believe the murder was a way for
Hoyt to settle his own drug debt
with Hollywood.
The crime was the inspiration
for “Alpha Dog,” which starred
Bruce Willis, Justin Timberlake,
Sharon Stone and Emile Hirsch,
who played “Johnny Truelove,” a
character based on Hollywood.
Hollywood fled after the slaying and later testified he had lived
in Colorado, the Mojave Desert
and various parts of Canada
before he was captured in Brazil.
CALIFORNIA
California’s long process to resuming executions
Reinstating the death penalty expected to take up to a year
BY PAUL ELIAS
SACRAMENTO (AP) — A
Contra Costa County judge late
last month sentenced Dar ryl
Kemp to death for the random
rape and murder of a young jogger. But chances are that Kemp
will not be executed anytime
soon, if at all.
He is 73. It takes an average of
20 years to execute an inmate in
California. And capital punishment has been suspended since
February 2006 when Michael
Morales came within two hours of
execution for the rape and murder
of a 17-year-old girl.
The return to capital punishment took a step forward when
prison officials recently convened
a daylong public hearing on proposed rules for lethally injecting
condemned inmates with three
drugs. Even if the proposal passes
legal muster, reinstating the death
penalty is expected to take up to a
year.
Whatever is decided in California, where there are 680 condemned inmates, is expected to
shape how other states carry out
executions.
Since the U.S. Supreme Court
signed off on Kentucky’s lethal
injection process last year and
lifted a brief nationwide moratorium, 36 states and the federal government, which employ the execution method, have experienced
varying degrees of success in
restarting capital punishment.
A federal judge in 2006 halted
executions in California until officials expanded the death chamber
at San Quentin prison and provided more executioner training and
other upgrades to ensure the condemned do not suffer cruel and
unusual punishment.
The Department of Correc-
Suit filed in Indiana, New Mexico, more planned
admitted mariside the courtroom.
juana dealer,
The victim’s par15-year-old Nicholas Markowitz was
said
Ben
ents said they were
relieved but declined taken to Santa Barbara and held for several M a r k o w i t z
owed him a
to comment further
days before being shot and buried in a
$2,500 drug
because of a gag
shallow grave. Jesse James Hollywood was debt — more
order issued in the
twice the
case. Prosecutors
found guilty of orchestrating the kidnapping than
amount proseand defense attorand killing over a $2,500 drug debt.
cutors have
neys also declined to
cited.
speak.
Hollywood
The penalty phase
of the case was scheduled to begin experts say is rare and potentially said he was afraid after Ben
risky. He testified that he and two Markowitz left threatening mesMonday.
Hollywood was accused of friends grabbed Markowitz off a sages, poisoned his dog and broke
orchestrating the kidnapping and street in the San Fernando Valley a window at his home, only hours
eventual killing of Nicholas area of Los Angeles but did not before Nicholas was abducted.
Hollywood called the taking of
Markowitz in August 2000 order the teen’s murder.
“I just feel ter rible about Nicholas irrational and not wellbecause the teen’s half brother
everything that happened,” Holly- thought out.
owed a drug debt.
Hollywood said Ryan Hoyt, the
Nicholas was taken to Santa wood testified. “I feel terrible for
Barbara and held for several days the Markowitz family. I feel terri- gunman who was convicted and
before being shot and buried in a ble that anyone would think I sentenced to death, acted on his
own because of concern about
shallow grave. Four others have could do something like that.”
He said the teen was taken in Ben Markowitz finding out about
been convicted in connection with
an escalating dispute between him the abduction. Hollywood also
the crime.
Hollywood took the stand in and the boy’s older half-brother, said the gun used to kill Nicholas
his own defense, a move legal Ben Markowitz. Hollywood, an was once his but that he gave it to
▼
Advocacy groups say states
violating voter registration law
BY NEDRA PICKLER
bcox@legalnews.com
it requires states to offer voter
registration when residents are
applying for a driver’s license or
state ID. To reach low-income citizens who are less likely to own
vehicles, the law also requires
that voter registration be distributed along with applications for
public assistance like food stamps
and Medicaid.
The coalition of advocacy
groups, which also includes the
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now,
Project Vote and the Lawyers’
Committee for Civil Rights
Under Law, say most states
have programs for driver’s license
registration, but many are ignoring the public assistance requirement.
tions and Rehabilitation has since
constructed a new death chamber
and the proposed new regulations
require execution team members
to undergo monthly mock executions. The rules would require
three syringes, each filled with
different drugs, to be administered by staff licensed to give
injections in California. A physician must be on hand to declare
death.
A state judge ruled that the 42
pages of execution protocols,
including instructions for mixing
and injecting the drugs, had to be
subjected to California’s lengthy
regulatory process, starting with a
45-day public comment period.
Cor rections off icials have
received more than 1,400 written
comments, the vast majority
opposed to the proposed procedures or death penalty generally.
For the mother of Morales’ victim, the wait for his execution has
been too long.
“There has been too much ‘red
tape,’ paperwork, and time lost in
this matter,” Barbara Christian,
the mother of Ter ri Winchell,
wrote in an e-mail. “Other victims
such as I are grieving and waiting
for justice for their loved ones.
We are the ones bearing the brunt
of this fiasco. The lethal injection
is humane with no pain. Let’s get
on with it.”
Maryland has embarked on a
public comment process like California’s. A federal judge has
ordered a halt to executions in
Missouri. And other states such as
Texas have carried out a com-
bined 68 lethal injection executions since the Supreme Court’s
ruling in 2008.
Michael Rushford, president of
the death penalty advocates Criminal Justice Legal Foundation in
Sacramento, said he is confident
that California also will resume
executions, partly because the
state’s protocols are more detailed
than the Kentucky procedures
approved by the U.S. Supreme
Court.
Most comments opposing the
new protocols stemmed from letter campaigns organized by the
ACLU, Catholic Legislative Network and other death penalty
foes. The ACLU complained that
the proposed process shrouds in
secret most of the lethal injection
procedures.
At least 10 death row inmates
complained in writing that they
have not received copies of the
new regulations.
The son of Julius and Ethel
Rosenberg noted the profound
impact of the death penalty on the
children of the condemned.
“There is an apparent disregard
for children who have had a family member executed,” wrote
Robert Meeropol, a lawyer in
Easthampton, Mass. The Rosenbergs were executed at a New
York prison in 1953 for passing
atomic secrets to the Soviet Union
when Meeropol was 6.
“My earliest distinct memories
of my parents are of visiting them
on death row,” Meeropol wrote. “I
have clear memories of the last
week of my parents’ lives.”
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Mark the Date
Retirement party
for Eric Braverman
July 10
The Wayne County Probate Bar
Association will hold a retirement
party for Eric A. Braverman Friday,
July 10 at 5 p.m. at Duggan’s Irish
Pub, located at 31501 Woodward
Avenue in Royal Oak (north of 13
Mile Road on the west side of Woodward). Braverman was one of the
founders of the Wayne County Probate Bar Association and has made a
substantial contribution to the practice
of probate law and the procedure for
more than 30 years. Food and beverages will be served at the event. For
additional information, contact Les
Braverman at (734) 283-7700 or
Howard Linden at (248) 358-4545.
Criminal Procedure Night
at the Skyline Club
July 16
Take in the view from the 28th
floor of the Town Center while enjoying hors d’oeuvres and drinks and
mingling with current and prospective
members of the Detroit Metropolitan
Bar Association Criminal Procedure
Section. The event will take place
from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in Southf ield. While at the event, Section
members can schedule an appointment with a photographer in order to
be included in a composite photograph of the local bar, which will be
displayed at the Frank Murphy Hall of
Justice. Registration deadline is July
14. Non-members contact Mitzy
Sharp Futro at (313) 961-6120, ext.
201
or
msharpfutro@detroitlawyer.org for
membership information.
NALS of Detroit
to host annual banquet
July 17
NALS of Detroit, a 50-year plus
legal professional support organization, provides quality continuing educational opportunities, certification
and training for members and nonmembers alike. The local Detroit
chapter will hold the 53rd Annual
Awards and Installation Banquet Friday, July 17, at the Holiday Inn
Express & Suites, 2nd Floor Washington Room, 1020 Washington
Boulevard in Detroit. A meet and
greet social begins at 6 p.m. Dinner
will follow. NALS of Detroit will welcome Roxann Repasy as the sched-
uled guest speaker. Repasy was
recently installed as the newly elected
state president of NALS of Michigan
at the organization’s annual meeting
held in April 2009 in Grand Rapids.
Repasy has been a member of NALS
of Jackson County for more than 30
years. She is an administrative assistant at Comerica Bank, Charitable
Services Group, in Ann Arbor. In
order to make a reservation or for any
additional information about the event
and dinner, contact Mary Tortomose
at (313) 965-9725, ext. 319 or mtortomose@ bsdd.com no later than Friday, July 10.
LADA holds
free legal clinic
July 17
Legal Aid and Defender Association (LADA) will hold a free legal aid
clinic for income eligible residents
under 60 years of age who qualify for
services on Friday, July 17, from 9
a.m. to noon at Oakland Livingston
Human Services located at 345 East
Nine Mile Road in Ferndale. Those
seeking assistance are asked to arrive
before 10 a.m. to register as LADA
staff will assist only those persons
registered before 10 a.m. For more
information, contact Stacey Felder at
(248) 253-1548 ext. 4005 or 1-877964-4700.
OCBA to hold golf outing
at Oakland Hills
July 20
One of the top country clubs in the
country will be the site of this year’s
Oakland County Bar Association golf
outing on Monday, July 20, beginning
with registration at 11 a.m., while
lunch will be served from 11:30 a.m.
with a shotgun start scheduled for 1
p.m. Dinner will follow the outing at
6 p.m. The cost is $200 per golfer or
$800 for a foursome. A hole sponsorship is $300, while a combination
hole sponsorship and foursome costs
$1,050. For those electing to attend
the dinner only, the price is $100 per
ticket. Reservations are due by Friday,
July 10, by calling Dennise Gac at
(248) 334-3400. Online registration is
available at www.ocba.org.
Barristers 22nd Annual Summer
Breeze and Law Clerk Party
July 23
Join the Detroit Metropolitan Bar
Clark Hill Cares
Association Barristers for the best
networking event of the summer. The
Barristers 22nd Annual Summer
Breeze and Law Clerk Party is a great
opportunity for summer associates
and law clerks to meet their peers,
members of the judiciary and other
legal professions. This year’s event,
held at Sinbad’s at the River from 5
p.m. to 8 p.m., will also include the
opportunity to enjoy a “mini-cruise”
on the Detroit River. The event is free
for members of the DMBA Barristers
and Law Student Sections. Tickerts
for other members and nonmembers
is $20. Contact Mitzy Sharp Futro at
msharpfutro@detroitlawyer.org or
(313) 961-6120, ext. 201 for more
information.
Gordon Advisors PC
to host free seminar
July 24
Gordon Advisors PC will host a
seminar titled “Measuring, Creating,
and Maintaining the Value of Your
Company” on Friday, July 24, beginning with registration/networking at
8:30 a.m. at Automation Alley in
Troy. This free seminar will run from
9 to 10:30 a.m. As seating is limited,
pre-registration for this event
is required. To register for this event,
contact Lauren McDowell at (248)
952-0275 or lbm@gordoncpa.com.
MMLA’s annual
lending conference
Aug. 2-4
Photo by John Meiu
Some 200 Clark Hill PLC employees volunteered June 27 to sort and pack food at Gleaners Community Food bank and partner locations near the firm’s offices in three Michigan communities (Detroit, Grand Rapids and Lansing), as well as Chicago
and Phoenix. While the firm has supported many community organizations in the past, the company-wide initiative was the
first formal community project orchestrated under the firm’s new “Clark Hill Cares” banner. “In lieu of holiday cards we felt
like we’d take our money and time and spend it better and so we’re donating time in all seven (firm) cities across the United
States. Why are we doing it in the middle of summer? Because most non-profits need our help during the summer,” Don
Lee, chief marketing officer at Clark Hill’s Detroit office, said. “That’s the kind of culture we want as a firm. It’s a family culture but it’s also a culture that cares and gives.”
“Back to the Future” is the title of
the Michigan Mortgage Lenders
Association’s Annual Lending Conference hosted Sunday through Tuesday, August 2-4, at Soaring Eagle
Casino & Resort in Mt. Pleasant.
There are many different options
available to fit all schedules and budgets. Visit www.mmla.net to view the
choices and prices. Early registration
prices are through Friday, July 17.
Overnight accommodations must be
arranged separately using the Soaring
Eagle registration form found on the
conference Web site page. To register,
go online to www.mmla.net. For additional information, contact Joanne
Misuraca, MMLA executive director,
(586)
226-2823
or
at
mmla@mmla.net.
Cynthia Filipovich
(left) and
Caryn Gordon
packaging potatoes.
Photo courtesy of
Tanner Friedman
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Date,” send information to
bcox@legalnews.com.
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Sotomayor’s record thin when it
comes to executive power matters
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Supreme Court nominee Sonia
Sotomayor’s thin record on the
limits of presidential power suggests she will be neither reflexively hostile to broad expansion of a
president’s authority nor a reliable
rubber stamp in support of it.
Three cases in particular offer
clues:
— As a judge on the 2nd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals,
Sotomayor dismissed complaints
of commuters about random
searches aimed at stopping terrorists on a ferry 300 miles north of
New York City.
— Citing an earlier ruling by
the Supreme Court on the same
topic, she upheld President George
W. Bush’s decision to prohibit U.S.
aid to international family planning groups that support abortion.
— On the other hand, Sotomayor joined colleagues in striking
down parts of the anti-terror USA
Patriot Act that Bush sought automatically prohibiting Internet service providers from telling customers when the government asks
for private information about
them.
Sotomayor has ruled in only a
handful of foreign policy and
national security cases that turned
in part on constitutional limits to
the powers enjoyed by the president, including the government’s
ability to respond to the threats,
fears and vulnerabilities laid bare
by the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorism
attacks.
In those rulings, as well as a
speech she gave in 2003 at the
Indiana University law school, she
appeared to be more willing to
consider robust use of presidential
authority than was Justice David
Souter, the man she would replace.
Souter, who retired last week,
was among the justices most skeptical of the powers asserted by the
Bush administration following
Sept. 11.
While Sotomayor has leaned
heavily on earlier court decisions
to support her rulings — as
appeals court judges must — she
soon could face potentially
groundbreaking cases on national
security if President Barack
Obama asserts executive authority
to continue detaining suspected
terrorists.
“What you have from Sotomayor is fairly mixed,” said Gene
Healy, vice president at the libertarian Cato Institute in Washington.
In the case over aid to family
planning groups, Sotomayor stuck
squarely with precedents from the
2nd Circuit and the Supreme
Court in ruling for Bush.
The dispute stemmed from
President Ronald Reagan’s decision in 1984 to institute the Mexico City Policy that bars U.S. financial help for international family
planning groups that support abortion, even with their own money,
through services, counseling or
lobbying.
President Bill Clinton rescinded
the policy in 1993, but Bush reimposed it shortly after taking office.
“The Supreme Court has made
clear that the government is free to
favor the anti-abortion position
over the pro-choice position,” she
wrote for a three-judge panel in
2002. Obama lifted the so-called
global gag rule in January.
The appeals court in New York,
where Sotomayor has been a judge
since 1998, does not hear many
national security cases. But
Sotomayor’s sparse record indicates “she won’t be a pushover for
the claim that the president gets to
do what he wants in any area that
he defines as national security,”
Healy said.
In the most recent ruling, in
December, Sotomayor signed onto
an opinion by Judge Jon Newman
that forces the government to seek
a court’s approval if it wants to
prevent an Internet provider from
telling a customer that authorities
are seeking information about him.
The appeals court said the
courts must be given a role in protecting rights even when the government says disclosure of information may endanger national
security or interfere with diplomatic relations.
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, a
member of the Senate Judiciary
Committee that will question
Sotomayor next week, said the
case raises important questions
about the role of courts in the fight
against terrorism. “Does Judge
Sotomayor believe that the Constitution permits any deference to the
elected branches in the area of
national security?” he said.
Based on Sotomayor’s opinion
in the ferry case, the answer is yes.
Two regular ferry passengers
who crossed Lake Champlain from
their homes in Vermont to their
jobs in New York objected to random searches instituted by the
ferry operator in 2004. One man,
traveling by car, was asked to open
his trunk. The other, a bicyclist,
had to open a pack he carried.
The Coast Guard had determined that operators of vessels
over 100 tons were required to
carry out the searches because
they are at a high risk of terrorist
attacks.
Sotomayor, writing for a unanimous three-judge panel, said the
ferry company’s policy might not
be the most effective way to prevent terrorist attacks, but “it is
minimally intrusive, and we cannot say, particularly in light of the
deference we owe to the Coast
Guard, that it does not constitute a
reasonable method of deterring the
prohibited conduct.”
Even so, she recognized as a
legitimate concern — though not
in the ferry searches — the slippery-slope argument that “because
the threat of terrorism is
omnipresent, there is no clear limit
to the government power to conduct suspicionless searches.”
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Photos by Robert Chase
Maddin Hauser Wartell Roth & Heller attorney Harvey Heller poses with just two pieces from the extensive collection of antique lunchboxes on display in his kitchen.
At left, he’s pictured with his favorite model, a purple-and-green depiction of comic-book hero The Green Hornet.
Lawyer captures pop culture history in unique collection
BY TARYN HARTMAN
Legal News
T
he color palette splashing across Harvey Heller’s West Bloomfield
kitchen would be the envy of any interior decorator.
But the bright hues don’t come from the cabinets (white with red
handles), the floor (black-and-white checkerboard linoleum) or the
appliances (standard stainless steel).
Lining the walls is Harvey, a partner at Maddin Hauser Wartell Roth &
Heller in Southfield and head of the firm’s insurance coverage and defense
practice group, and wife Ronna’s collection of antique lunchboxes, an array
of oranges and turquoises and hot pinks some 110 strong that immortalize
pop culture icons like Superman, G.I. Joe and the casts of “Bonanza,”
“Lost in Space,” and “Get Smart.”
“They’re a specialty,” Harvey says. “This is very much a premiere collection for this area, because the condition of the boxes are very, very good,
for the most part. There are some bad ones, but overall it’s an excellent collection and not a lot of people collect lunchboxes.”
It all started in Royal Oak, where the Hellers found their first two lunchboxes — a 1973 Dr. Seuss model that is still Ronna’s favorite and the first
of what would grow into three Popeye lunchboxes, this one yellow with
red trim.
“And we said, ‘Gee, those would look cute above the sink,’” Harvey
remembers. “One thing led to another, and we found ourselves at flea markets and collectible shows for years thereafter.”
The blue and white Dr. Seuss box has since been moved to the center of
the top shelf running the length of the back wall above the sliding glass
door to the patio, and the Popeye box has joined its siblings on the shelf
above the entrance to the kitchen. The bulk of the collection rests on custombuilt white shelves edging the far end of the kitchen.
To peruse the Hellers’ collection is to take a tour through the history of decorated lunchboxes, each one telling its own story, beginning with a 1946 Joe
Palooka edition decorated with the characters from a comic strip that would
become the precursor to Bazooka Bubble Gum and its in-wrapper Bazooka Joe
comics.
“The history of lunchboxes, really, before the early ’50s there wasn’t much
going on in lunchboxes,” Harvey says, pulling the Palooka box from the shelf like
a library book. “It wasn’t much of something that was done until the early ’50s,
when one of the box companies came out with two boxes” — he replaces Palooka
for another model — “this one, Hopalong Cassidy with a simple decal on it, and
then you see those two space boxes up there on the right.” He gestures across
the kitchen to shelves next to the microwave where one red and one blue box
feature illustrated stickers in their middles.
“And so when they did that, the competition came out with a
fully decorated Roy Rogers,” Heller continues. “And in response
to that, they then started this process, and so the legend goes,
decorated lunchboxes were born.”
“As a collection, for all the effort we have undertaken, we
He explains that each year, lunchbox companies unveiled six
or
eight
new models just in time for the back-to-school season,
can’t imagine parting with it. I think Ronna and I probably said at
most designs not repeating year to year.
one point in time it would take six figures to turn our heads, but even
“Throughout the ’50s you get a lot of the Westerns here,”
Heller says, gesturing to one shelf lined with the likes of the
then we probably wouldn’t get turned enough. That’s how we feel
original Lone Ranger lunchbox, boxes featuring Wild Bill Hickabout our lunchboxes.
ock and Zorro and “this 1954, pristine-condition Annie Oakley,
just perfect” that Heller convinced a Macomb County collector
into selling him.
“In the late ’50s, these boxes took off, and that’s sort of like
“
”
your conventional workman’s lunch pail box,” Heller says, pulling a box with a curved top
painted in a pirate motif off a shelf. “There were 41 dome boxes that were designed, you’re
seeing 34 of them,” he adds.
“And this is the rarest box of these types, called Hometown Airport,” he continues. “Rare,
because no cool kid wanted this box.” Heller estimates it could easily fetch $2,000.
The un-cool factor of the planes adorning Hometown Airport may explain why there was
no Perry Mason lunchbox. “It would have to be something that was kind of cool,” like a cartoon or superhero, Heller says. “In those days, that’s how they did it.”
“A little later on, in the ’60s, you get to the TV shows.” Heller points out a “Land of the
Giants” box adorned with a self-portrait of the artist who painted it.
“There was a lot of that going on, they drew pictures of themselves and they inserted
them,” he explains.
There’s also an original Star Trek box featuring the mugs of William Shatner and Leonard
Nimoy, versions featuring The Man from U.N.C.L.E and the Flintstones and Jetsons.
“This is the original Mickey Mouse Club box,” Heller says. “So there’s Annette, and
there’s Bobby and there’s Jimmie Dodd and there’s whatever her name is. But the interesting
thing about this is there was a little boy on the show and his name was Cubby O’Brien. And
Cubby O’Brien, in later years and currently I still believe, if somebody like Cher was on the
road, he might be in the orchestra being a drummer.
“Anyway, we were at the Fisher, and we sit down and we’re always looking through the
playbill, and I look down and it says ‘Cubby O’Brien.’ So I walk down and I said, ‘Is it really
you?’ and he said it was, so the following week I convinced my partner, when it was his season ticket, to walk down the center aisle with this and have Cubby sign it. ”
He turns the box over, where there’s a signature in Sharpie over an illustration on the bottom of the box.
“Now, we weren’t so lucky, nor did we try when Paul McCartney was in town for the Beatles box,” Heller says with a laugh. There are two Beatles models near the superhero section of
the Hellers’s collection: a blue one and one embodying the famed yellow submarine.
“This one was unusual.” Heller picks up one of the brighter boxes, day-glo colors featuring
the visage of actress Diahann Carroll. “This is Julia. ‘Julia’ was a TV show in the early ’60s,
very ahead of its time as a TV show because it was pre-Cosby. And we found this wrapped,
fully covered with a flocked wallpaper. We found it at the Royal Oak flea market, and all I
could do was try to peel it back, and I peeled it back and I saw this green edge, and I said,
‘This is worth buying.’ And we bought it, we took it home, I worked on it for a long time and
discovered this was underneath it.”
Portraits of live actors on lunchboxes got to be so serious that when the original Dr. Dolittle movie was filmed in 1967, “Rex Harrison, who played Dr. Dolittle insisted to have prior
refusal rights,” Heller explains in legalese, “and he insisted that his likeness be exact.”
The lunchbox Heller carried to school as a child is in the collection, although by the time
he wanted to display it his mother had gotten rid of the original model and Heller had to pick
up another one. His calls his favorite lunchbox, the purple and lime green Green Hornet
design, “one of the best superhero boxes ever produced just because of the action scenes” that
include sketches of Bruce Lee as Kato.
Parts of the collection have been out of the house on loan at various times to the West
Bloomfield public library for back-to-school displays.
“We love the opportunity to-you could’ve said you were from the Weekly Reader,” Harvey
says. “We love the opportunity to show our collection.”
Heller estimates his insured collection is worth more than $25,000, but it’s never been
about the money and he has no interest in selling.
“As a collection, for all the effort we have undertaken, we can’t imagine parting with it,”
he says. “I think Ronna and I probably said at one point in time it would take six figures to
turn our heads, but even then we probably wouldn’t get turned enough. That’s how we feel
about our lunchboxes. Fair statement, honey?” he asks his wife.
“I think so,” she answers. “I actually had an offer yesterday for somebody to buy a Beatles
box. I told them no.”
“... The chances of us parting company…we love them too much,” says Heller. “We get a
lot of joy just sitting in here and enjoying them.”

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