Detroit Strip Clubs: Attorney: Ex-aide to Mike Cox has ‘important information’ on investigation of …
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Attorney: Ex-aide to Mike Cox has ‘important information’ on investigation of slain stripper
March 12, 2010, 9:28AM
Norman Yatooma, the attorney representing the family of slain stripper Tamara “Strawberry” Greene in a $150 million lawsuit against the city of Detroit, is prepared to depose a number of high-profile witnesses in the near future, including Carlita Kilpatrick, Bernard Kilpatrick and former Police Chief Jerry Oliver.
But the most interesting witness could be the least well-known: Brooke Jordan, who previously worked as an assistant attorney general in Mike Cox’s office under the name Brooke Liszak.
“We believe she worked closely with Attorney General Cox and will have important information as to whether and why his investigation was compromised,” Yatooma told the Detroit News.
As the long-running rumor goes, Greene danced at a party thrown by then-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick at the Manoogian Mansion in 2003. She was murdered months later.
See the full article from “MLive.com”
Detroit Strip Clubs: Society Confidential: Grosse Pointe Snooki; Writer/blogger living the good life
March 12, 2010 at 3:00 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsWe mentioned the long-gone Stone Burlesk in passing in the “church ladies (and gentlemen) vs. strippers” item a few weeks ago, when the two sides were tussling at City Council over proposed new regulations for the Eight Mile stripperies. The Stone was on Woodward north of the Fisher Freeway, in what was Detroit’s faintly seamy entertainment district back in the ’50s and early ’60s; and the grandson of the owner, Matthew Jacobson, contacted us to say he would love any of the Stone’s former strippers, or their families, or anyone with a good memory to contact him. So hey, if grandma or mom was the Golden Girl of the Golden West or Machine Gun Kelly , send Matthew an e-mail at stoneburlesk@gmail.com. He’s compiling interviews for a documentary on the Stone.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Cox aide may testify in stripper case
March 12, 2010 at 3:00 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsCox aide may testify in stripper case
Lawyer says ex-assistant AG may have information on probe of rumored party
Paul Egan / The Detroit News
Detroit — A new potential witness has emerged in the Tamara Greene case — one a lawyer for the slain stripper’s family says has important information about Attorney General Mike Cox’s investigation of a rumored Manoogian Mansion party.
She is Brooke Jordan, formerly known as Brooke Liszak, who worked as an assistant attorney general in the special litigation division of Cox’s office before moving to Arizona several years ago.
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Greene, linked to a rumored stripper party at the mayor’s Manoogian Mansion in the fall of 2002, was shot to death in Detroit on April 30, 2003. Her family is suing the city, Kilpatrick, and top city and police officials, alleging they obstructed a probe of her unsolved killing for political reasons. Kilpatrick and the other defendants deny the allegations.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Angry Conyers vows to appeal 37-month prison sentence
March 12, 2010 at 3:00 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsConyers’ Detroit attorney, Steve Fishman, asked to withdraw from the case immediately after the sentencing hearing, saying Conyers may have appeal rights and he could be a witness at any appeal.
“This case is over for me,” Fishman said.
Conyers, 45, admitted in June she took at least $6,000 in cash bribes in connection with her vote on the $1.2 billion contract the council awarded to Synagro Technologies Inc. of Texas in 2007.
She had originally spoken out against the controversial deal, but her “yes” vote proved to be the deciding one as the contract passed 5-4.
Part of the controversy over the attempted plea withdrawal stemmed from Cohn’s comments that he would consider other “relevant conduct” such as alleged shakedowns of a strip club, a technology company and a real estate developer with matters before the City Council or the General Retirement System, where Conyers sat as a trustee.
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