Counties across Michigan foreclosed on homes for outstanding property taxes, sold them at auction and illegally kept the profits, according to a class-action lawsuit filed in federal court last week. The lawsuit names treasurers from 44 of Michigan’s 83 counties, including Muskegon, Kent and Kalamazoo, where defendants claim the government illegally profited off their inability to pay property taxes. Examples provided in the lawsuit cite cases in which residents owed property taxes far less than what their homes eventually auctioned for. In one case, the lawsuit claims Kalamazoo County profited nearly $275,000 from the sale of two properties seized from the same owner, who owed $29,000 in unpaid taxes. READ MORE ►Massive demo would take down 2,200-plus blighted buildings in Flint ►Here's how much homes sold for in your ZIP code in 2021
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| State Rep. Mary Cavanagh, D-Redford Township, was driving while two times over the legal BAC limit with two flat tires before she was pulled over and arrested for allegedly drunken driving, according to a police report. Cavanagh is facing her second drunken driving charge after being arrested on Feb. 25 earlier this year after a traffic stop which ended in her arrest, 16th District Court records show. The 30-year-old lawmaker was unable to complete a “walk and turn” test where her eyes appeared “bloodshot and glossy,” an officer wrote in a police report obtained through a public records request with the Livonia Police Department. READ MORE ►Snyder asks U.S. Court of Appeals to overturn order requiring him to testify at civil Flint water trial |
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