Paul Egan
Reporter/ Lansing Bureau Chief at Detroit Free Press
Covering #MI government for Detroit Free Press. Watchdog coverage of how state taxes, spends, & treats citizens. Contracts. Conflicts. Not a good ole boy.
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1 week ago |
freep.com | Paul Egan
Hammoud joined the department in 2021 but says he has been on stress-related leave since January. Hammoud's suit alleges that members of the department use racial slurs and the code "04" when discussing harassment of Black residents. A Muslim police officer alleges in a new lawsuit that supervisors and colleagues at the Melvindale Police Department targeted him because of his religion and ethnicity, leaving crosses and a Christian Bible in his work mailbox and trying to get him to quit the force.
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1 week ago |
freep.com | Paul Egan
Claims processing was supposed to be completed two years ago, but only one claim out of tens of thousands has been paid so far, records show. Claims processing costs now exceed $30.5 million, and some attorneys on the case have already been paid tens of millions of dollars in fees and expenses.
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1 week ago |
freep.com | Paul Egan
The officers beat inmate John Paul Callaghan while trying to restrain and handcuff him after he assaulted one of the officers, according to a defense attorney. All four officers were fired after a disciplinary conference in May but their union plans to fight the dismissals. A judge has dismissed felony charges against four former corrections officers at an Ionia prison in connection with the 2024 beating of an inmate who was left with a broken back and other injuries.
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3 weeks ago |
freep.com | Paul Egan
The new forecasts project the state's general fund will collect $585M less over two years than was forecast just four months ago, in January. That loss to the general fund is offset, however, by higher-than-anticipated School Aid fund revenues, which were revised upwards by $128M over two years.
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3 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Paul Egan
LANSING — The Senate Fiscal Agency is revising state revenue forecasts downward by close to $1 billion, citing tariffs and economic uncertainty, and says the 2026 budget recently passed by the Senate would leave state government in a deficit. The Michigan State Capitol building in downtown Lansing on Wednesday, June 1, 2022.
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