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Was Ficano Duped Into Signing Letter For $200,000 Severance For Turkia Mullin?

February 27, 2015, 7:23 AM

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Ex-Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano is essentially blaming his staff for the mess he got into.

John Wisely of the Detroit Free Press reports:

Former Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano said last month that he signed a controversial letter confirming a $200,000 severance to former development chief Turkia Awada Mullin because it was in a stack of papers awaiting his signature.

It was late on the Friday afternoon before Labor Day weekend in 2011 when Ficano said he picked up the stack from a counter with a sticky note attached that read: "OK to sign."

"I signed all the documents," Ficano testified last month in a wrongful-termination lawsuit filed by Taylor Segue, a former employee fired by Mullin. "I never just sign anything, there's got to be a review by somebody that says this is OK to sign, that it's consistent with, you know, your signature, so go ahead and sign it."

The lucrative severance triggered lots of reports in the media and an FBI investigation that ended up netting five convictions. Just recently the U.S. Attorney's Office said it was closing the investigation. 


Read more:  Detroit Free Press


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