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Former President of Madison District Public Schools Board of Education Albert Morrison, 62, was sentenced to 45 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to accepting bribes for a local contractor and tax evasion.

“Today’s sentence underscores our continued insistence that our trusted public officials hold themselves to the highest standards of integrity and honesty,” said United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison.

Former president of Madison District Public Schools Board of Education sentenced for bribery, tax evasion Former President of Madison District Public Schools Board of Education Albert Morrison, 62, was sentenced to 45 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to accepting bribes for a local contractor and tax evasion.

16 yr. old male found laying in the street after being hit by car.

Driver wanted in alleged hit and run in Madison Heights, police say - NewsBreak The police are looking for the driver of a car they believe was involved in a hit and run. Police say they responded to a personal injury accident on October 20 around 8 a.m. at the corner of E. Progress Drive and Couzens Avenue.

Madison Heights resident/Detroit Police Officer charged after police say she pointed a handgun at another driver near I-75 and 12 Mile Road.

Detroit officer accused of pointing gun at driver during road rage altercation in Oakland County A Detroit police officer is accused of pointing a gun at another driver during a road rage altercation in Oakland County.

If you any information about this hit and run fatality please call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-SPEAK-UP.

Driver sought in Saturday morning fatal hit-and-run crash in Pontiac The Oakland County Sheriff’s Office (OCSO) needs help identifying the driver of a light-colored mid-size SUV accused of fatally injuring a pedestrian and fleeing the scene Saturday morning.

On this day in 2002 Officer Jessica Nagle-Wilson was killed in the line of duty. Jessica responded to to a dog complaint in which she was fired upon and struck by the dog owner. Jessica was able to return fire incapacitating her attacker thus preventing further death and injuries. Jessica later succumbed to her injuries at the hospital. Jessica is always our hero and is in our hearts. Our thoughts and prayers continue to go out to all of her family, friends and loved ones that miss her every day. 💙💙💙💔💔💔

UPDATE: SUBJECT IS NOW IN CUSTODY

Troy, MI - On July 7, 2023 at 9:10 pm Troy Police Officers were called to the parking lot of 1301 Coolidge, Target Department store for a reported assault. Upon arrival officers found a single victim with injuries to her face and a witness who helped stop the assault.

Information has developed 31-year-old Andrew Hall as a person of interest in this case. He was last seen wearing a green baseball hat, gray shirt, and red shorts. Hall is considered armed and dangerous, do not approach, please call 9-1-1.

Any person with further information or whereabouts of is encouraged to contact Troy Police Department tipline at 248.524.0777.

Madison Heights man who pointed laser at police helicopter arrested A MSP helicopter was struck by a green laser while on patrol Tuesday night. No officers were harmed but it is a federal and state crime.

Oakland County health officer dead in possible homicide-su***de, police say | Bridge Michigan A sheriff’s spokesperson confirmed Thursday evening that Calandra Green’s death is being investigated as a 'homicide and a su***de,' but officials would release no further details. She was named county health officer last year, the first woman of color in that position.

2 planned Amazon Fresh stores in Metro Detroit appear to have been scuttled The news comes after nearly two years of rumblings about when Amazon.com Inc. would be ready to roll out its Amazon Fresh stores in Michigan.

Volunteers needed to clean Royal Oak veterans’ gravesites, place flags The Royal Oak Memorial Society is asking volunteers to help on three Saturdays in May to clean military veterans’ gravesites and place small U.S flags on them.

School contractor John David, 65, plead guilty today to bribing and conspiring with Albert Morrison, the former School Board President of Madison District Public Schools.

The investigation uncovered $561,667 in payments from David to Morrison.

Contractor admits to bribing Madison Heights school board president for $3.1 million in contracts A contractor has admitted that he bribed the former Madison Heights school board president, a “longtime friend,” with hundreds of thousands of dollars so his company could get contracts for $3.1 million worth of projects within the district

Reminder: You legally have to remove snow from your vehicle before driving in Michigan Michigan is one of 11 states that prohibit driving a vehicle without clearing snow from it.

Oakland Co. woman wins lottery prize at Madison Heights grocery store Her face turned so red, a coworker asked her if she was OK.

Driver found unconscious after crash on I-75 revived with 3 Narcan doses Troopers from the Michigan State Police Metro North Post responded to the one-car crash on I-75 in Madison Heights on Jan. 1.

🖤💙Besides our monthly cause we would also love to help one of our officers that is battling cancer. Madison Heights Detective Kreger & his family are facing an incredible challenge. After the onset of sudden symptoms, Detective Kreger was diagnosed with Glioma, a cancerous tumor the size of 2 golf balls in his brain. Please join us in keeping the Kreger Family in your thoughts as they move forward in their fight. If you are interested in supporting them, please let us know. The bracelets are $20 (shipping not included) and 100% of the proceeds will be donated to him and his beautiful family. You can also donate to their Gofundme.The link for it is shared on Madison Heights Police Department page.💙🖤Thank you in advance for all your love and support!!🙏💙🖤Some of the bracelets will be dropped off at the department today.💙🖤

Team Kyle: Support for the Kreger Family, organized by Kelli LaFalce On November 29th 2022, Kyle Kreger was rushed to the ER after sudden symptoms … Kelli LaFalce needs your support for Team Kyle: Support for the Kreger Family

Circa 2016- “It has never been about a land sale. It has been about investing in our community, investing in our students,” said Randy Speck, Superintendent of Madison District Schools.

Strife over school land sale in Madison Heights It is just over 3.5 acres of land, next to a park at Alger and Barrett Avenue, surrounded by a neighborhood.

Circa 2018- “John David of Emergency Restoration bought the property. He and Randy Speck, the superintendent of Madison Schools, say the project will include skill trade opportunities for high school students from the Madison District Public Schools, which are needed in the construction business.”

Neighbors question $60,000 land deal for new subdivision in Madison Heights Some residents in Madison Heights are protesting a new subdivision.

Just a reminder of all the corruption that USED TO go on at MDPS. This post is from March 6, 2019.

Anyone missing some Jeep / SUV tires both on rim and off rim in the last few days? If so, contact the Warren Police Department.

In addition, real utility companies will NEVER ask you to purchase and pay thru gift cards such as Target or Best Buy. Also, they will never ask for payment thru services such as Zelle, Cash App, Apple Pay, Pay Pal or other.

Consumers warned of latest series of scam calls in Michigan Check the caller I. D.

Just a reminder that the federal government seized the homes of John David, owner of Emergency Restoration, and Randy Speck, former superintendent of MDPS, over two years ago. Al Morrison does not own a home to be seized. Thank you to Mark Kimble for posting this information.

Three cheers for the “armed civilian”

3 dead, 2 hurt in Indiana mall shooting; Armed civilian kills gunman Three people were killed, and two others were hurt, during a mall shooting in Indiana Sunday evening, according to authorities.

Just a reminder of the sale of the Monroe school property from six years ago. It was never offered to the public. One acre was sold to the city for $144,000, and the other four acres was sold to John David for $60,000. This article is from the Madison-Park News. And no student ever worked on any of the houses. None. Zero. This was used simply as a smoke filter to get support. We are now moving into year number six of this investigation. More indictments are expected.

From Troy PD.

He**in Possession

Dover Street and Big Beaver Road, 07/02/2022 at 7:59 PM: Officers made contact with a female who was standing with a cardboard sign on the easement of eastbound Big Beaver due to the obstruction of traffic she was causing. Upon speaking with the subject, a 28-year-old female from Madison Heights, officers discovered she had multiple warrants for her arrest. The female admitted to having drug paraphernalia in her purse and gave officers consent to search her bag and purse. In the bag and purse, officers located he**in and multiple items of drug paraphernalia. The female was arrested and transported to the Troy Police Lock-up Facility on charges of Possession of He**in and Possession of Narcotic Paraphernalia. 22-19230

Congratulations, Al Morrison, for making the front page of the newspaper. You always claim you are “for the kids”, but that doesn’t appear to be true, does it?

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, July 14, 2022
Former President of the Madison District Public Schools Board of Education and a Local Contractor Charged in $560,000 Bribery Scheme

DETROIT - Albert Morrison, the former President of the Madison District Public Schools Board of Education and local school district contractor, John David, have been charged in a superseding indictment with conspiracy to commit bribery arising out of David’s payments of over $560,000 in bribes to Morrison in exchange for $3.1 million in school contracts to David, U.S. Attorney Dawn N. Ison announced today. The bribery charges were added to the indictment filed on April 6, 2022, that charged Morrison with tax evasion and failure to file tax returns in connection with his failure to report over $500,000 in income from David.

Ison was joined in the announcement by James A. Tarasca, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Michigan Division, Sarah Kull, Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division, and John Woolley, Special Agent in Charge of the Department of Education, Office of Inspector General.

Albert Morrison, age 60, and John David, age 64, are charged in the superseding indictment as co-conspirators in a bribery conspiracy count, and they are each separately charged with three counts of bribery concerning programs receiving federal funds. According to the indictment, Morrison was the elected President of the Madison District Public Schools Board of Education from 2012 through 2018. While Morrison was President, John David was one of the owners of a building maintenance and reconstruction company, Emergency Restoration (a/k/a Emergency Reconstruction), that was awarded over $3.1 million maintenance and construction projects in the Madison District Public Schools.

David, who was a long-time friend of Morrison, wrote checks from his company to Morrison’s solely owned company, Comfort Consulting, from 2014 through 2018. Morrison deposited the checks from David into his solely owned bank account. David, through his company, made at least $561,667 in payments to Morrison. David admitted he had to “pay to play” in the school district, and David’s companies received approximately $3,167,275 from the Madison District during the bribery conspiracy. Morrison spent the money from David on personal luxuries such as vacations in Florida and a boat slip.

To keep the payments secret from the school board and the community in the Madison Schools, Morrison, when publicly confronted at a Madison District school board meeting, denied having any financial ties to David or Emergency Restoration. Morrison and David also failed to disclose to State of Michigan auditors the payments Morrison received from David.

Morrison did not declare to the IRS David’s payments to Comfort Consulting as income in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, or 2018. In a further effort to conceal the payments from David, Morrison did not file a federal income tax return in 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018. By not declaring to the IRS the payments from David as income, Morrison avoided paying approximately $118,200 in taxes.

“Children and their parents deserve a school system free of corruption,” said United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison. “Today’s indictment demonstrates our commitment to ensure that our educational systems put the interests of our kids first.”

“It is important that contracts funded by our school systems be awarded through a fair and transparent process, not through deals funded by bribes to those in positions of power,” said James A. Tarasca, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Detroit Field Office. “The FBI prioritizes efforts to expose corruption and we will continue to aggressively investigate these allegations alongside our partners at the IRS and Department of Education Office of Inspector General.”

“Honest and law-abiding citizens are fed up with the likes of those who use deceit and fraud to unfairly line their pockets," said Special Agent in Charge Sarah Kull, Internal Revenue Service, Detroit Field Office. "Those individuals who engage in this type of financial fraud should know they will not go undetected and will be held accountable."

An indictment is merely an accusation and is not evidence of guilt. The defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law. If convicted, Morrison and David face the following statutory maximum penalties: 5 years in prison for the conspiracy count and 10 years in prison for each of the three bribery counts against each of them. Morrison faces a statutory maximum penalty of 5 years in prison for each count of tax evasion and 1 year in prison for each count of failure to file tax returns. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.

The investigation of this case was conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division, and the Department of Education. It is prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Sarah Resnick Cohen, Karen Reynolds, and Gjon Juncaj.

Topic(s):
Public Corruption
Component(s):
USAO - Michigan, Eastern

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Ex-Madison Heights school board president Al Morrison indicted on federal bribery charges
M.L. Elrick
Detroit Free Press

Nearly five years to the day after denying at a Madison Heights school board meeting that he had any financial ties to a district contractor, Al Morrison was charged with taking more than $500,000 in bribes from the contractor.

Morrison, who was then the president of the Madison District Public Schools, had been on the take for nearly two years when, on July 12, 2017, a board member questioned why he approved so much work for a Troy company, according to a federal grand jury indictment issued Wednesday.

"Do you have any ties to Emergency Restoration?" a board member asked Morrison, according to a transcript of the school board meeting cited in the indictment.

"None whatsoever," Morrison replied.

"You don't receive any money from them whatsoever?" the board member continued.

"No money from them whatsoever," Morrison replied.

Federal prosecutors say Morrison created a company called Comfort Consulting that received $561,667 from John David, a long-time friend of Morrison's who owned a Troy company known as Emergency Restoration and Emergency Reconstruction. David's company received no-bid repair and maintenance work from the school district at Morrison's direction.

Morrison also was charged with income tax evasion for failing to report the allegedly ill gotten gains. The grand jury also charged David with multiple counts of bribery.

Morrison's attorney could not immediately be reached for comment Thursday.

David said: "I don't know anything about this." He referred questions to his attorney.

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Feds indict former Madison Heights school leader, pal in bribery scandal Former school board leader Albert Morrison is latest in crackdown on corruption in Detroit area that has led to charges against more than 110 people.

Update. WWJ is reporting that Warren police have made an arrest and gotten a confession from the driver of the black Ram pickup truck that hit and killed a Madison Heights bicyclist yesterday morning. The arrest stemmed from an anonymous tip. Charges are pending.

Warren police arrest man who confessed to hit-and-run that killed bicyclist

By WWJ Newsroom
WWJ Newsradio 950

WARREN (WWJ) -- Warren police have arrested a driver involved in a hit-and-run crash that killed a man riding his bike.

On Tuesday morning, around 5 a.m., a 47-year-old Madison Heights man was riding his bike eastbound in the right lane of 13 Mile Road when he was struck by a black Dodge Ram between Heritage Parkway and Mound Road, just east of Ryan.

Investigators say an anonymous tip led them to a home less than a mile away in Warren where they found a black Dodge Ram with a damaged front end.

Police say the man living there confessed to being the hit-and-run driver.

He was taken into custody. Charges are pending.

Update: Warren police have made an arrest and have gotten a confession.

Family of Warren hit-and-run victim asks for help finding suspect

By: Simon Shaykhet
Posted at 4:43 PM, Jul 12, 2022 and last updated 2022-07-12 17:34:29-04

WARREN, Mich. (WXYZ) — Family of a hit-and-run victim from Madison Heights is putting out a plea for help to assist police in Warren to track down the person responsible.

The incident happened Tuesday morning along 13 Mile Road near Mound as the victim was riding his bicycle to work.

The mother of that hit-and-run victim describes her son as having a heart of gold, and she can’t understand how someone could have hit him and kept going. He is identified as 47-year-old Matt Zaleski.

“He was just a great kid. He was in sports and did football. Everybody that knew Matt loved him,” his mother Louise Campbell said.

Surveillance video shows a black colored Dodge Ram speeding away seconds after the impact just before 5 a.m.

“Police detective came to my door. He told me he was hit by a pickup truck that took off and passed at the scene. I said, ‘Oh my God.’ I asked was he horribly disfigured? The detective said all I can tell you is he didn’t suffer,” Campbell said.

Following the crash, the truck lost its front grille. It can also be identified by several lights above the front windshield.

“It’s heartbreaking. To have to go to speak to a family and let them know their loved one passed away. Not just that, but due to a car accident with the driver fleeing as well,” Warren Police Department Detective Brandon Brashaw said.

Zaleski’s mother added, “If they have kids of their own, they should think about what happened. Obviously, it’s a lot to process. We would just like to know what happened.”

If you can help identify that Dodge Ram with a missing grille or have any other information, call Warren police at 586-574-4700.

A follow up to a Story posted here a few days ago. Way to go, Corion!!

WAY TO GO! When 16-year-old Corion Evans saw a car crash into a river in Mississippi over the weekend, he immediately jumped in to help save the three teenage girls inside. A police officer who went into the water ended up also needing help when one of the teens began to panic and pulled him under, and Evans rescued the officer as well! STORY: https://tinyurl.com/b2ns6z5b