Posted on 06/16/2024 10:43:41 PM PDT by Texan4Life
LANSING — Three weeks before Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed last year’s state budget with a $5 million grant for an undefined Mount Clemens housing project, city commissioners held a special session to award the money to a company controlled by local developer Jim George.
In the months leading up to the vote, he had become a prolific political donor.
George’s company provided the agreement to Mount Clemens officials. He would buy a disused property on the edge of downtown, demolish the notorious, condemned hotel that stood on it and build apartments in its place.
Developer Jim George had requested more than $9 million in grants for the estimated $27 million project from state and local officials. Reprinted with permission of The Macomb Daily.
The grant, which would flow to his firm without any competitive bidding, would be used to reimburse his costs.
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The city council and Board of Supervisors in Los Angeles has had several members go to jail and all the others are under investigation for this sort of bribery.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-10-14/a-guide-to-los-angeles-city-council-scandals
9.1% for the big guys.
If in lawless LA the city council and Board of Supervisors laundered govt grants, and were nailed and jailed for taking govt bribes and kickbacks, that should be a cinch in Whitmer land.
Michigan? You mean Detroit? You mean Lansing Allahwahoo Whackbar?
THe Dems love dfeeding the animals they keep in their fascist zoo.
10% for the Big Guy.
Its the Progs tithing to their church.
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in an austerity move?
Maybe their Big Guy was as big as most thought 🤔🤔🤔🤔
Maybe their Big Guy was as big as most thought 🤔🤔🤔🤔
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isn’t the PC term for MI kick backs “the Big Gal?”
isn’t this women’s unequal pay for the gretch?
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