Just three days into 2013 and it's clear the scandals involving Wayne County government aren't going away.
The latest: The Detroit News reports that Nader Fakhouri, 44, ex-top aide to Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano, said in a deposition unsealed this week in federal court that he made a few hundred thousand dollars in a land deal that's under FBI scrutiny.
The deal involved the county's 2010 purchase of an office building in Inkster from the Boji Group, a Lansing real estate firm owned by his father-in-law, Ron Boji, the News reported.
The News reported:
The Boji Group, whose principals have hosted fundraisers for Ficano, were named in grand jury subpoenas delivered to the county in fall 2011 as part of wide probe into Ficano's operations and fundraising.
Fakhouri acknowledged the profit during a deposition involving a federal lawsuit from a former county graphics designer, James Wallace, who alleged he was forced to perform campaign work on county time.
The News reported that Fakhouri said he has a passive, 20 percent interest in the land deal that was engineered by Turkia Mullin.
