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Alize Asberry Payne Slept (Ate and Ubered) Here: County DEI Dir. Charged $115K to County Credit Card

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Mar 19, 2024

by P.D. Lesko County records revealed that between 2022-2023, Alize Asberry Payne charged $115,000 to the credit card given to her by Washtenaw County. Along with trips, workshops, conferences, and a $3,700 payment to the Detroit…

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WCC President’s Credit Card Records: Meals Out Curbed, But Charges for Limos & the Ritz

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Jan 25, 2015 0

by P.D. Lesko Records show that Dr. Bellanca’s assistant’s credit card is being used to charge items previously charged to the president’s college-issued credit card, including charges for limousine services and $2,000 worth of stays at…

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County Employee Credit Card Records Show Las Vegas Trips, Stays at Luxury Hotels Curtailed

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Sep 26, 2014 0

by P.D. Lesko In 2013, The Ann Arbor Independent published articles detailing county employee stays at Las Vegas casinos, resorts and 4-star hotels at taxpayer expense. Analysis of 3,600 credit card charges made in 2014 show no trips to…

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A2POLITICO: Paying Attention to the “Public’s Perception”—Grudgingly

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Apr 10, 2014 0

by P.D. Lesko THE COUNTY EMPLOYEES had taken the majority of the chairs out of the waiting room and into a conference room, where a gaggle of them were gathered around a table having a meeting. The waiting room was full of people…

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Former County Head Start Director’s Extensive Travel Months Before Retirement, Including A Trip To Hawaii, Received “Verbal” Approval

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Mar 26, 2014 0

Washtenaw County’s former Head Start Director Patricia McGee was put on leave weeks before she retired in December 2011. A county official told a reporter in December 2011 that Ms. McGee was being investigated due to unspecified…

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A2Politico: County Treasurer—“There Was Too Much Possibility For Fraud Or Abuse.”

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Mar 22, 2014 0

by P.D. Lesko THIS NEWSPAPER, UNLIKE many in the United States, has a regular column that deals with the issues of hunger, homelessness and poverty in our city, state and nation. “Urban Exile” is not fluffy feel-good journalism. The…

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Months Before Retiring, County Head Start Director Paid For $1,846 Waikiki Sheraton Charge With County Credit Card

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Mar 19, 2014 0

ON MARCH 11 The Ann Arbor Independent published its results of an analysis of almost 14,000 credit card charges made by Washtenaw County employees between 2011 and 2014. That analysis revealed multiple charges for luxury lodging, meals out…

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Commissioners Ask County Administrator To Report On Employee Stays At Vegas Casinos

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Mar 18, 2014 0

County Administrator Verna McDaniel says Ann Arbor Commissioners Rabhi and LaBarre asked her to prepare a report that addressed The Ann Arbor Independent’s March 11 story that documents county employee and elected officials’ stays at Las…

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Washtenaw County 14a District Court Employees Use County Credit Cards To Make Dozens of Purchases At Ypsilanti Tim Horton’s

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Mar 12, 2014 0

WASHTENAW 14A COURT employees Colleen E. Turek and Lisa Mull have each used their county-issued credit cards to make dozens of purchases at the Ypsilanti Tim Horton’s. The most recent purchase was one for $57.42 made on February 7, 2014 by…