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Ex-McNamara aide convicted of Detroit Metropolitan Airport corruption 9/27/2004, 10:45 p.m. ET The Associated Press ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — A federal jury on Monday convicted a top aide to former Wayne County Executive Ed McNamara of taking kickbacks from contractors at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. The charges grew out of a two-year federal and state investigation of the McNamara administration. The jury found Wilbourne Kelley III, 68, and wife Barbara Kelley, 56, guilty of extortion, bribery, conspiracy and lying to the FBI. Barbara Kelley also was convicted of money-laundering. Wilbourne Kelley was a top county official through the 1990s and...

Day-long raid seizes McNamara files Data about campaign contributions, Metro Airport contracts targeted November 23, 2002 BY DENNIS NIEMIEC, TINA LAM AND DAVID ZEMAN FREE PRESS STAFF WRITERS With just over a month left in his powerful political career, Wayne County Executive Ed McNamara was greeted at work Friday morning by FBI agents with warrants to search nearly every crevice of his Democratic political machine. Throughout the day, federal agents, accompanied by state police, conducted a dramatic and wide-ranging hunt for computer and paper records connected to political campaigns, Detroit Metro Airport contracts and a slew of charitable groups tied...

LINKWomen take aim at Governor's races By David Von Drehle Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, April 29, 2002; Page A01 FLINT, Mich. -- As the ranking Democrat in the Michigan legislature, state Sen. John Cherry is as neutral as a beige sofa in an off-white room when it comes to the highly competitive race to be the party's nominee for governor. But his wife isn't. "Yes, I'm married to one, but I am really tired of white male leaders," Pam Cherry explained over chilled shrimp at a fundraiser for state Attorney General Jennifer Granholm. "We need something new, something fresh."...