
Christine Macdonald
Investigative and Data Reporter and Editor at Detroit News
I am an investigative reporter and editor for the Detroit Free Press. Got a tip? [email protected]
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1 week ago |
freep.com | Christine Macdonald
Video showed the ex-staffer take both boys into a back room separately. Her attorney argued the teens testimony was inconsistent and unreliable. A jury on Tuesday, June 17, found a former staffer at the Wayne County juvenile jail guilty of sexually assaulting two teens at the facility in a back room last year. Both youths, ages 16 and 17 at the time, testified that Svetlana Kuryanova performed oral sex on them within several minutes at the facility in April 2024.
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2 weeks ago |
friedfrank.com | Joshua B. Wechsler |Charles Stern |Christine Macdonald |Joseph Fox
June 13, 2025 Fried Frank acted as counsel to UBS Securities LLC, William Blair & Company, L.L.C. and The Standard Bank of South Africa Limited, as representatives of the underwriters, in connection with a secondary offering of 1,500,000 ordinary shares of Karooooo Ltd. (Karooooo), a Singapore public company, by the selling shareholder and founder. Karooooo is a global provider of a leading operations management SaaS platform.
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1 month ago |
washingtoncitypaper.com | Christine Macdonald |Lori Rampani |Francisco Rodriguez |Francisco Rodríguez
Thanks for being a member of City Paper! This story was supported by Spotlight DC and a seed grant from the Fund for Investigative Reporting. The story was reported by participants in Hola Cultura’s Storytelling Program for Experiential Learning. The story was written by Christine MacDonald, Hola Cultura’s executive director and editor, and SPEL editorial fellows Lori Rampani and Francisco Rodriguez.
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2 months ago |
freep.com | Dave Boucher |Christine Macdonald
Roughly two dozen people still owe more than $20 million in restitution from public corruption convictions sometimes decades in the past. The Wayne County prosecutor says it's up to the city of Detroit to go after the hundreds of thousands of dollars owed by ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. But the city says that's not how it usually works.
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2 months ago |
freep.com | Christine Macdonald
A new court filing includes comments from William Smith about his crimes as the former CFO of the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy. Smith is scheduled to be sentenced April 24 after pleading guilty to wire fraud and money laundering in late 2024.
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