Lansing — The Michigan Senate is moving to halt the disbursement of unspent grant money to a Metro Detroit businesswoman who shelled out $4,500 in taxpayer dollars on a coffeemaker and $11,000 on ...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer gives her State of the State Address at the Michigan State Capitol building in Lansing on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer broke her silence on an embezzlement ...

LANSING — Michigan's economic development arm and the state attorney general settled a dispute over materials that were seized when investigators executed a search warrant at the agency's headquarters ...

Correction: The Legislature is trying to get the MEDC to block the second $10 million payment. An earlier version stated otherwise. Lawmakers are hoping to mitigate some of the outrage over a $20 ...

An attorney representing the Michigan Economic Development Corporation on Monday appealed an Oakland County judge’s decision to let the state retain evidence taken during a June raid, which sought ...

Let’s put in perspective that $4,500 coffeemaker purchased by a politically connected recipient of a $20 million state economic development grant. While it’s a teeny drop in the $80.7 billion state ...

Lansing — On Sept. 11, 2020, Fay Beydoun met with the state’s head economic development officials to make an ultimately unsuccessful pitch for financing a business accelerator connected to the ...

Was a $20 million state grant given to Fay Beydoun, a Democratic power player, simply political patronage or was it an objective business proposition that will benefit the state by attracting business ...

Flint — Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's office would have preferred a competitive grant program championed by donor Fay Beydoun over the earmark the Metro Detroit businesswoman ultimately got ...

Lansing — The chief executive officer of a Metro Detroit not-for-profit organization is receiving $550,000 annually through a $20 million state taxpayer-funded grant to run a program focused on ...

A Republican lawmaker from Michigan wants the state to pay journalists a bounty for uncovering government misuse of taxpayer dollars. State Rep. Joe Aragona is drafting a bill that would give a bonus ...