Charlie LeDuff digs digging into dirty deals and dug up a doozy last week involving a demolition contractor and a candidate for mayor. He joins ML, Marc and Shawn to spill.
STRAIGHT DOPE: With less than a week to go in the Detroit mayoral race, LeDuff broke a story reporters had been chasing for more than a year: City Council President Mary Sheffield was in a relationship with a city contractor and voted to approve contracts for his company. LeDuff gives ML, Marc and Shawn the story behind the story. You can read Charlie’s scoop here.
An anonymous envelope filled with documents landed in LeDuff’s mailbox. He explains how it was the key to getting Sheffield’s Chief of Staff Brian White to acknowledge his boss’ relationship with Brian McKinney, the CEO and founder of Gayanga.
Detroit has rules for how city officials and employees can interact with people and business who want to do business with Detroit. ML and Charlie discuss some of those rules, and how they apply to the Sheffield situation.
McKinney has an, er, complicated past. LeDuff lays it out for the crew.
ML has been revealing some of Sheffield’s, er, interesting donors – who include former city council president Monica Conyers. Read all about them here.
LeDuff has been digging into Detroit dirt and Mayor Mike Duggan for a decade. Listen and hear all about it here.
ML discusses the evolution of Duggan’s relationship with Sheffield. It is, shall we say, complicated.
Hear a new inside story of an attempt to kill one of ML's Fox 2 investigations -- and how his bosses handled it.
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GEEK OF THE WEEK: Baseball Hall of Fame voters who continue to overlook legendary Detroit Tiger Lou Whitaker are this week’s geeks.
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