That’s the same mission stated for Beydoun’s Global Link International, the firm she started only after half of the $20 ...

While the state economic development agency isn't the target of the investigation, Nessel said the agency needs stronger ...

Attorney General Dana Nessel said her department is "deeply concerned" by the MEDC's conduct during an investigation into a ...

An embarrassing, politically fraught grant could lead to major reforms at the Michigan Economic Development Corp., or possibly even its demise. State Attorney General Dana Nessel is investigating the ...

Beydoun reported spending $4,500 on a Jura coffee maker, $11,000 on a first-class airfare to a conference in Budapest and $408,000 on salaries over a three-month period for what appeared to be ...

A former MEDC executive committee member, Fay Beydoun, had secured a $20 million grant from the agency for a nonprofit. She then blew $4,500 on a coffee maker for the organization, the reporter found.

LANSING — The state attorney general intentionally and unlawfully seized attorney-client privileged materials from the ...

A Detroit News investigation found that Beydoun spent $4,500 on a coffee maker and about $11,000 for a plane ticket for a conference in Budapest. Those are among the expenses MEDC characterized as ...

Beydoun’s term expired April 5 and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has yet to appoint her replacement. The MEDC announcement looks like a public relations stunt designed to calm the waters.

The grant smacked of cronyism from the beginning, given Beydoun’s connections and the fact that the $20 million came as a direct payment from the Legislature that bypassed the normal grant ...

An earlier version stated otherwise. Lawmakers are hoping to mitigate some of the outrage over a $20 million grant awarded to Democratic crony Fay Beydoun by throwing good money after bad.

Fay Beydoun hadn't even filed the incorporation papers for her Global Link International nonprofit when the state Legislature handed her a $20 million appropriation in economic development money.