AFSCME workers leaving City Hall after demonstrating inside. Hundreds participated in a rally, march and occupation. (Photo: Abayomi Azikiwe), a photo by Pan-African News Wire File Photos on Flickr.
PANW Editor's Note: This is the same individual who is the point man for the banks in the destruction of Detroit. With all of these personal and professional problems and contradictions why has he not been fired by racist Gov. Snyder?
Dillon declared that Detroit was in a "financial emergency" while he can't manage his own political fund and maintain cordial relations with his family. This is indicative of the right-wing Republicans and Democrats and reveals their moral incapacity to deal fairly with the largest per capita African American city in the United States.
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August 22, 2013 at 3:00 pm
Worthy won't charge Dillon with domestic assault
Chad Livengood
Detroit News Lansing Bureau
Lansing— Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy’s office on Thursday declined to charge state Treasurer Andy Dillon with domestic assault of his ex-wife stemming from an incident at their marital home last month.
“After a thorough review of the evidence, it has been determined that there is insufficient evidence to file criminal charges,” Worthy spokeswoman Maria Miller said in a statement Thursday. “The warrant request has been denied.”
Carol Owens-Dillon accused her ex-husband of twisting her wrists and scratching her as he tried to get his cellphone back after she took it out of a vehicle parked outside the house on July 13.
Owens-Dillon has said the confrontation arose after she came home to find her house rummaged and a tow truck driver hired by Dillon attempting to break into a vehicle she drives that contained her divorce records.
Dillon later asked the Michigan State Police to retrieve his government-issued cellphone at the Redford Police Department while his ex-wife was filing a police report about the incident. Redford police, which had submitted a warrant request to the prosecutor’s office, declined comment Thursday.
Kelly Rossman-McKinney, a Lansing public relations executive, released a statement Thursday on Dillon’s behalf “as his friend, not his paid consultant.”
“I want to express my deep appreciation to the Redford Police Department and to the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office for their diligent investigation of the allegations made against me by my former wife,” Dillon said. “I also want to apologize to the officers and the attorneys for the time they had to take to investigate these unfounded accusations. This situation has been profoundly sad for everyone involved.”
In the absence of eye witnesses or medical treatment for her injuries, Owens-Dillon said Thursday an assistant prosecutor told her there wasn’t enough evidence to prove an assault occurred.
“He’s very high profile; they had to be very clear to charge him,” Owens-Dillon told The Detroit News.
Novi attorney James Harrington III, who represented Andy Dillon in his divorce, has said one of the Dillons’ adult sons, Jack, witnessed the incident and told Redford police that his father did not assault his mother.
The Dillons, who divorced in March, requested personal protection orders against each other after the incident. A Wayne County Family Court judge issued a mutual restraining order restricting contact between the former high school sweethearts.
Worthy’s decision not to charge Dillon with a crime comes on the same day The Detroit News first reported that state treasurer’s secretary sued Carol Owens-Dillon on Wednesday for defamation for claiming she and Dillon had an affair in 2011. Owens-Dillon leveled the allegation July 7 in a posting on her public Facebook page that has since been deleted.
Amy U. Hichez, who has been Dillon’s executive assistant since 2008, has denied she was romantically involved with her boss and is demanding a retraction from Dillon’s ex-wife and damages exceeding $25,000.
Hichez’s lawsuit also names a defendant Frank Tomcsik of Redford Township for allegedly reposting Owens-Dillon’s “false and derogatory statements” on Facebook and in the comments section of a local blog and articles on the Redford Observer’s website.
Tomcsik, who ran unsuccessfully against Dillon for the state House in the 2008 Democratic primary, also allegedly posted Owens-Dillon’s claims on an article on the American Association of Retired Persons’ website entitled, “Why Long-Married Couples Split.”
Tomcsik said Thursday the lawsuit has “no merit.”
“I would never intentionally do anything to hurt Amy, I like Amy,” Tomcsik said in an email.
Dillon, a former Democratic House speaker, joined Republican Gov. Rick Snyder’s administration in 2011 after losing the 2010 Democratic primary to Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero.
Dillon’s acrimonious divorce became increasingly public in the past week as he publicly acknowledged — through a spokeswoman — a struggle with alcoholism and faced questions about accounting discrepancies of $114,000 in old gubernatorial and legislative campaign funds.
Snyder’s office said Tuesday they were standing by Dillon despite his personal problems, citing his performance running the Treasury Department and overseeing financially stressed cities and schools districts.
clivengood@detroitnews.com
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From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130822/METRO01/308220088#ixzz2ckU2EvLo
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