Detroit Mayor's Ex-Lover Says She Used Him for Kickbacks
Detroit cops are scouring the city trying to kill the story, which feels like Kwame 2.0
By Charlie LeDuff @Charlieleduff
Detroit — Mayor Mary Sheffield has man troubles.
First, there is the demolition contractor being investigated by the FBI for allegedly poisoning the city with toxic dirt. Sheffield’s first instinct was to tell the public she didn’t vote to give her former lover city contracts. That turned out to be a $59 million lie.
Now comes her latest Himbo eruption. And this one threatens to burn down City Hall.
Sheffield’s handlers do not deny her relationship with businessman Marvin Walker. There are too many salacious photographs and videos for that. But Sheffield’s minions are quietly whispering to reporters that if any money changed hands between the two, it was Sheffield helping out her former lover when his funds were short.
For his part, Walker claims that he was Sheffield’s bagman while she was a member of city council, acting as the courier who collected illegal kickbacks on her behalf and deposited them in her mailbox.
Walker came to meet me with a heavy portfolio of videos, text messages, and screenshots. Walker described an ornate scheme—one of many—where Sheffield used her public position and municipal contacts to help steer lucrative real-estate deals to a pair of prominent businessmen. Those men, in turn, would provide Walker with the quid-pro-quo: wads of cash as thick as a head of cabbage. Walker estimates that he collected and delivered at least $200,000 to Sheffield.
In one screenshot, Walker is sitting in his car with a bundle of high-denomination currency.
“7,000. In your mailbox,” he wrote along with a photo of the cash.
“Thank you,” she replied.
The rationale for his alleged criminality? “I loved her, man,” Walker said. “I would have done anything for her. But now she’s throwing me under the bus.”
Then Walker showed some wedding photographs of him and Sheffield taken in Las Vegas in 2022. It wasn’t a real wedding, said Walker, who is married with children. They were just “playing house.”
As he was talking about the Vegas getaway, Walker’s telephone rang. It was Detroit Chief of Police Todd Bettison. Photographs and videos of Walker and Sheffield were starting to appear on social media, and the Chief wanted Walker to take them down.
“How am I supposed to take them down when I didn’t put them up?” Walker asked the top cop. “I don’t got nothing to do with that.”
City Hall refuses to answer questions about Walker’s relationship with Mayor Sheffield, except to say, “[We] highly recommend you consider the source and motivation behind what is being said.”
Detractors paint an unsavory portrait of Walker. He’s been called slum lord, a car thief, and a manipulator who uses his properties to house homeless women and then use them as his own personal harem.
Walker denies it all. Nevertheless, police confirm that they have asked the county prosecutor for an arrest warrant against Walker for criminal sexual conduct.
And last week, Detroit police came 12 deep to lock and shutter Walker’s midtown building for code violations.
Also, plain-clothes detectives have been scouring local car dealerships inquiring about whether Walker had engaged in title fraud.
But car titles were not the only thing detectives inquired about. “They asked us if we knew anything about his and the mayor’s relationship,” one surprised salesperson recalled. “It was fucking crazy. I mean, we’re just a car dealership, what were we supposed to know about that?”
In response, Walker’s lawyer has made overtures to the FBI. They’re looking to cut a deal.
“I did whatever she asked of me,” Walker said, as we spoke in the parking lot of one of his moldering properties. Clay-faced women stared from their porch stoops. “Now, when I needed her help, she turns on me. I’m not going out like that,” he said.
But this story doesn’t end with Walker.
Earlier this month, Chief Bettison phoned Jahdante Smith, a high-strung and hard-charging activist who had posted intimate images of the couple online.
Smith recorded the call with the Chief.
“I did see some of the posts you made, the post with Mary kissing Marvin,” Bettison said. “What I would like for you to do, I would like for you to take those pictures down off your Facebook page. I would like for you to do that. I’m asking you.”
Smith refused.
Then last week, as Smith was walking downtown with his 7-year-old son, four uniformed cops jumped out of their squad cars, cuffed Smith, and seized his cellphone.
“They never presented a warrant, didn't articulate suspicion, they just snatched my phone,” Smith said. “This administration is off the hook, man. Not good.”
When contacted by telephone, Chief Bettison said, “It’s an open investigation, I cannot comment on it.”
This shouldn’t be taken as a story of lust, but rather a story about the lust for power and money. It’s a story about judgment and the company Mary Sheffield keeps. A scorned and sleazy lover trying to settle a score. A mayor using the police force as a personal palace guard.
It’s fair game for the public to ask if their city is being run like an organized crime racket. Are we going back to the bad old days in Detroit? Maybe. Or maybe the bad old days never left and we just couldn’t see it.
I Will Never Forget.😡
They stood there in 2021 and told you the science was clear: these vaccines would protect you and the people you love from getting this disease.
They did not.
Millions of fully vaccinated people still got COVID. Many got it more than once. The shots never stopped infection or transmission the way they were sold. Breakthrough cases became the norm, not the exception.
Then, in September 2021, the CDC quietly changed its own definition of “vaccine.”
Old version: a product that stimulates your immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease, protecting you from that disease.
New version: a preparation that stimulates the body’s immune response against diseases.
They dropped “immunity” and “protecting the person from that disease” right as it became obvious the shots weren’t doing what they promised.
That’s not science updating.
Let's talk about the Amish... did you know the Amish had a 90X lower fatality rate from COVID & that Autism is undetectable in their community?
Here's why their approach to health stands out—they ignore every CDC guideline, shun vaccines and their communities are thriving....
- COVID Fatality Rate: In Lancaster County, PA (home to ~45,000 Amish), only about 5 Amish deaths from COVID over the entire pandemic—resulting in a rate ~90 times lower than the U.S. average.
- No Lockdowns or Mandates: The Amish continued normal life—no masking, no social distancing, no school/business closures, no vaccine mandates—and still had minimal COVID impact.
- Herd Immunity Naturally: Reports indicate ~90% of the Lancaster Amish community contracted COVID early on, achieving natural herd immunity without vaccines.
- Autism Rates: Essentially undetectable—Steve Kirsch, researcher Dan Olmstead & others report being unable to find unvaccinated Amish children with autism, unlike skyrocketing rates elsewhere.
- Other Chronic Conditions: Virtually no cases of cancer, diabetes, ADHD, or autoimmune diseases in Amish kids, attributed to their unvaccinated, natural lifestyle.
There are now more than a dozen vaccinated vs unvaccinated research studies that show being unvaccinated is always healthier:
• 2020 study on 1,827 kids: Unvaccinated children had significantly lower rates of asthma, ear infections, ADHD, allergies & neurodevelopmental disorders.
• 2017 study (6,000+ participants): Vaccinated kids were 4.5X more likely to have asthma, 22X more likely to need allergy medication & over 30X more likely to have allergic rhinitis.
• New Zealand survey (over 200 unvaxxed kids): Almost ZERO chronic illness – no asthma, no eczema, no seizures, no diabetes.
• Amish study: Autism rate roughly 1 in 15,000 vs national average of 1 in 31. (The few autistic children found in the Amish communities were children adopted INTO families, who were previously vaccinated & living outside the Amish.)
This is Grammy-winning artist Pras Michel shaking hands with Barack Obama in 2012.
Just officially reported to prison to begin a 14-year federal sentence after prosecutors proved he helped funnel millions in illegal foreign money into Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign.
The operation: Prosecutors proved Michel accepted more than $100 million from Malaysian financier Low Taek Jho in a covert influence scheme tied to influencing U.S. elections.
The laundering network: Michel used straw donors to secretly route foreign cash into Obama’s 2012 campaign, bypassing federal election laws designed to prevent foreign influence in American elections.
The verdict: A federal jury convicted him on 10 criminal counts, including conspiracy, money laundering, witness tampering, and acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government.
In other words: Barack Obama colluded with a foreign power to illegally influence and rig the 2012 presidential election in his favor.
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Julian Assange Reveals Why WikiLeaks Has Zero Dirt on Donald Trump
By Jonathan Gregory
WASHINGTON, D.C. - AUGUST 11, 2026
In a stunning interview with Megyn Kelly, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange delivered a devastating blow to the mainstream media narrative, confirming that his organization has never published damaging material on Donald Trump for a simple reason: "There is no dirt to release". Unlike the entrenched political class that has spent decades lining its pockets at the expense of working Americans, Trump entered the political arena as an outsider, unbought, unbothered, and completely independent of the globalist cabal of elites. Assange’s candid acknowledgment highlights what millions of patriots have known all along: Donald Trump is arguably the cleanest, most transparent figure to ever occupy the Oval Office, owing his allegiance solely to the American people rather than dark-money interest groups.
Assange’s historic exposure of Hillary Clinton’s emails stripped back the curtain on a system rigged against ordinary citizens, ultimately derailing a political agenda that threatened to compromise American sovereignty and accelerate the destruction of the existing world order. By laying bare the inner workings of the political establishment, Assange acted as a crucial truth teller, exposing the deep seated corruption of the uni-party system. Trump’s rise represented an existential threat to this very establishment, a political force capable of disrupting decades of entrenched power dynamics. Because the opposition has no legitimate leverage or dirt to hold over him, Trump retains the upper hand, effectively holding all the cards needed to challenge deep-state bureaucracy and put power back in the hands of the electorate.
For years, Assange paid a tremendous personal price as a political prisoner, targeted by the same globalist apparatus that feared the exposure of its own secrets. His ultimate release marks a historic victory for free speech, transparency, and the fundamental right of the public to know the truth about those in power. As the political landscape continues to shift, the courageous actions of figures like Assange, combined with Trump's relentless campaign against systemic corruption, signal a permanent reckoning for the political elite. With the truth finally out in the open and Assange a free man at last, the movement to dismantle globalist control and restore American independence stands stronger than ever.
@TrumpNews
🚨10 YEARS OF LIES JUST GOT TORCHED
Karoline Leavitt stood at the podium and dropped the hammer:
“Nearly ten years later, thanks to the declassification of documents by the Director of National Intelligence, the truth has finally come to light vindicating President Trump and exposing Barack Hussein Obama’s seditious conspiracy against the United States.”
They didn’t just “investigate.”
They manufactured the entire Russia collusion hoax. Weaponized the intel agencies.
Smeared Trump, his family, and every patriot who voted for him.
While pretending to honor a peaceful transfer of power, Obama’s inner circle was already plotting to destroy the incoming President before he even took the oath.
Brennan. Clapper. Comey. McCabe. Schiff. Clinton. Steele. The whole swamp syndicate.
It was never about Russia.
It was about protecting their power and overturning the will of the American people.
The documents are out.
The traitors are exposed.
Thomas Sowell spent decades documenting what the Great Society actually did to black American families, and the evidence is brutal if you're willing to read it honestly.
In 1960, before Lyndon Johnson signed a single piece of Great Society legislation, roughly 22% of black children lived in single-parent homes. By 1980, that number had climbed past 50%. By 1995, it was near 70%. Slavery didn't produce those numbers. Jim Crow didn't produce those numbers. A federal welfare apparatus that penalized marriage, rewarded dependency, and treated fathers as financial liabilities produced those numbers. The Aid to Families with Dependent Children program (AFDC) made a man's presence in the household a disqualifying factor for benefits. Washington literally paid women to be unmarried and paid them more for each additional child. You design incentives, you get outcomes. This is not complicated.
Sowell's deeper point, the one that gets buried, is that black family stability was actually improving before federal intervention accelerated. Black poverty rates fell sharply between 1940 and 1960, before the Great Society existed. Black entrepreneurship, fraternal organizations, and two-parent households were all trending in the right direction under conditions that Great Society architects later described as hopeless. The War on Poverty didn't rescue a broken community; it interrupted a recovery.
Free market thinkers from Sowell to Walter Williams explained that price floors on labor (minimum wage laws), urban renewal projects that bulldozed black business districts in cities like Cincinnati and Atlanta, and the school assignment systems that trapped poor children in failing institutions all compounded the welfare trap systematically. Each intervention generated a problem that justified the next intervention. Government failure reliably became the argument for more government.
The cruelty here is structural. Politicians got votes. Bureaucrats got budgets. Social workers got caseloads. And three generations of children grew up without fathers in the home, with all the documented downstream effects on education, incarceration, and earnings that researchers have been tracking ever since. Everyone in that system got what they wanted except the people the system claimed to serve.
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One year after President Trump signed the Working Families Tax Cuts into law, the promise of the American Dream is extending to every factory floor. It was great to join Speaker Johnson and Congressman Ciscomani at the Frito-Lay facility in Casa Grande, Arizona to discuss how the America First pro-growth economic agenda is giving manufacturers the confidence to invest, expand, and hire.