by P.D. Lesko Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP) is a tool used to dissuade individual critics and the media from publicizing information, facts, investigations, that businesses, schools, non-profits and others would…

Updated 9/13/24 with a comment from Billy Cole and County Administrator Greg Dill. by P.D. Lesko Supreme Felons, Inc. is led by felon Billy Cole, a murderer. Bryan Foley, a bank robber, has self-identified as the "managing director"…

by P.D. Lesko The cajoling, race-baiting, and threatening public comments started at 5:30 p.m. and went for more than three hours during the Aug. 15 meeting of the Ypsilanti Twp. Trustees. On the agenda was a resolution to demand the…

While Washtenaw County law enforcement officials cater to criminals, crime rates are increasing.

This article was made possible by donations to the Ann Arbor Independent FOIA Fund. Click here to donate. Washtenaw County charged a fee to release the pubic records used in this article. by P.D. Lesko At…

According to police records, since late-2021, the Men Like Us club building owned by Ardis Lewis, Jr. has been the site of shootings, assaults, attempted murder and an alleged sexual assault. In Mar. 2022, Lewis applied to the County for a…

by P.D. Lesko Correction: YCS School Board member Dr. Celeste Hawkins was inadvertently identified as the YCS spokesman who contacted The Ann Arbor Independent on March 14 by phone and spoke on the record. The article has been updated,…

by Monica Ross-Williams, MBA; LIA - Organizer for Citizens for Ethical Government in Washtenaw County Please note: I requested no meeting of any sort with Mr. Billy Cole. His claim that I did in the podcast audio clip linked to here is…

by P.D. Lesko Long-time Detroit News crime reporter George Hunter picked up the Ann Arbor Independent's reporting on the fraudulent grant application submitted to Washtenaw County by local non-profit Supreme Felons, Inc. for $1.2…

by P.D. Lesko Supreme Felons, Inc., a local non-profit that was awarded $1.2 million in federal funding by the Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners in July 2022, has never filed state or federal tax returns, public records show.…