Catch up on the largest public corruption scandal in Lansing in 30 years as a businessman later this morning is expected to become the first person to plead guilty to a federal crime for his role in a bribery scheme involving Michigan's marijuana industry... @CraigDMauger and I broke the scandal open in February by revealing FBI agents and a federal grand jury were investigating whether former Michigan House Speaker Rick Johnson and others received bribes detroitnews.com/story/news/loc…

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The Assistant U.S. Attorney in charge of the Public Corruption and Civil Rights Unit in Detroit (which prosecutes voting rights violations and hate crimes, for example) just filed a secret, sealed case in federal court... Assistant U.S. Attorney David Gardey's fingerprints are all over high-profile public corruption crackdowns in recent years, including the prosecution of @UAW Presidents Gary Jones and Dennis Williams... detroitnews.com/story/news/loc…

Records I found in Georgia show former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's federal tax debt has ballooned from $195,000 to more than $634,000 with penalties & interest since he was convicted of running a criminal enterprise out of City Hall detroitnews.com/story/news/loc… via @detroitnews Collecting that debt can be tricky. The late mob captain Vito “Billy Jack” Giacalone, a suspect in the unsolved disappearance of Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa, largely managed to elude tax collectors... @detroitnews

Huge news always seems to break the last full week of August, and @detroitnews has led the way with scoops you can continue to read by subscribing. We have a deal right now, two years for $22... cm.detroitnews.com/offer?gps-sour… This year, the big news in late August was the Gov. Whitmer kidnapping case and guilty verdicts detroitnews.com/story/news/loc…