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A suburban Detroit mail carrier who had stashed more than 20,000
pieces of mail at his home lost his job but got a break from
federal prosecutors.

More people will be charged as part of a long-running probe of
corruption under disgraced former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, federal
prosecutors said Thursday.

Lawyers for the eight Great Lakes states and the Obama
administration discussed a legal dispute Wednesday over preventing
an Asian carp infestation but no deal was reached, Michigan’s
attorney general said.

A consultant charged with conspiring to shake down businesses
for bribes was a “political pimp” who put Detroit up for sale in
exchange for favors from his ally, then-councilwoman Monica
Conyers, a prosecutor told jurors Monday.  

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A close friend and former top aide to former Detroit Mayor Kwame
Kilpatrick has pleaded guilty to conspiracy and admitted getting
money from two land deals when he was on the city’s
payroll.  

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Rayford Jackson — the Detroit businessman convicted in a
shockwave of scandal — breaking his silence.  In this part of
his interview with Huel Perkins, he details why he refuses to
cooperated with the feds, the advice he gave his children as he
heads to prison, and he talks about political consultant Sam
Riddle.

Federal agents from at least three different agencies have
searched a pain-management clinic in suburban Detroit.

An FBI agent testified Wednesday that an ongoing federal
financial investigation led him to interview a person at a real
estate office who worked with former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick
and his wife to find a leased mansion where they live.

The FBI is trying to determine whether members of a radical
Detroit-area Islamic group were homegrown jihadists or merely a
“bunch of thugs with bluster,” a congressman said Thursday. One
thing is certain: They are not mainstream Muslims, the agency
said.

The feds arrest several members of a radical Sunni Islam group.
During one raid, agents killed one of the group’s leaders during a
shootout. Meanwhile, the FBI is still looking for three suspects.
FOX 2 Legal Analyst Charlie Langton has been going over the
criminal complaint against these suspects line by line.