The latest twist in the saga of the Wayne County Airport Authority's former CEO is described in just five stark words:
"Turkia Mullin wants more money," begins an update by Detroit News reporter Joel Kurth.
Turkia Mullin [Photo from Fox 2 News]Weeks after praising an arbitrator who awarded her $712,328 in back wages for being fired after two months . . . Mullin filed court papers last week alleging the arbitrator made mistakes that cost her and her attorney $113,000 or more.
Mullin wants a judge to affirm the arbitrator's ruling and give her another $90,446 in penalties and her attorney, Ray Sterling, at least another $22,887 in legal fees and possibly much more. The arbitrator gave him $98,543 in fees, a quarter of what Sterling said he was due.
The move stunned airport officials, who agreed to binding arbitration to settle Mullin's lawsuit over her dismissal.
Here's how a former airport commissioner, Bernard Parker, reacts:
"It looks like she's trying to get every penny. She's fortunate to get what she got and she should quit while she's ahead."
Mullin, a former Wayne County economic development director, became the airport's chief executive in 2011.
She was fired a few weeks after the FBI served subpoenas demanding information about a nonprofit she ran and deals she engineered for the county, Kurth writes.
