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[Charlie LeDuff @Charlieleduff]

See? I told you.
While the fake news has run with the fake Gordie Howe Bridge opening story for 3 full days, we were advocating for tariffs on Canadian industrial garbage being dumped in Michigan.
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[Charlie LeDuff @Charlieleduff]

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Canada keeps dumping on us here in Michigan.
The Gordie Howe Bridge should not open until we reach a deal on Toronto's garbage.
And if we can't get a deal, then tariff the shit out of them.
Keep Michigan green.

[Charlie LeDuff @Charlieleduff]

No BS Newshour Episode #421
GARBAGE

VIRAL: The story behind the violent assault at Potbelly.
He's the same a-hole I tackled 10 years ago for mugging my friend.
ANOTHER Whitmer fail: Neither of us knew he was released.

O Canada! We're not your dumping ground. Tariff the trash!

See You Next Tuesday: Dopey Dana celebrates elder abuse.

Big Data Bensons: Moonlighting as the grand dragon of the KKK? What's the silk count on those robes, Madam?

#MeToo Taryn: Former Fox 2 no-talent Taryn Asher's career in ashes. The petulant former personality drops an anchor on her own head.

[Charlie LeDuff @Charlieleduff]

🚨🚨🚨
Canada keeps dumping on us here in Michigan.
The Gordie Howe Bridge should not open until we reach a deal on Toronto's garbage.
And if we can't get a deal, then tariff the shit out of them.
Keep Michigan green.

[Michigan Enjoyer @mich_enjoyer]

Why Canada Gets to Dump Its Trash in Michigan
Michigan is a cheap place to dump and Nafta made waste not subject to tariffs

By Charlie LeDuff @Charlieleduff

It’s the Canadians, again.

They’re literally dumping on us. Millions of tons of industrial waste pour into Michigan’s landfills every year from Canada. Enough to build two Empire State Buildings of garbage.

We can’t stop it. And it’s all the fault of Nafta and the U.S. Constitution.

That notorious trade deal provided the legal framework that prevents Michigan from stopping Toronto’s detritus from passing through Detroit. Under the compact, solid waste is legally classified as a “commodity.” And because that commodity—garbage—is entirely “manufactured” in North America, it avoids a tariff.

Man in shirt points at Canadian garbage truck highlighting cross-border waste disposal issues

Michigan’s dumping fees are cheap—about half the cost of Ontario’s. It’s so cheap neighboring states also dump on us. We’re surrounded by more garbage per person than any state in the Union.

New York recently tried hauling in nuclear waste from the World War II-era Manhattan Project. Ohio attempted to truck in toxic phosgene dregs from the East Palestine train disaster. Phosgene is a substance so deadly that it’s banned by the Geneva Convention. Intense local opposition stopped both Ohio and New York’s poison from being buried here, but their highways, byways, and baby diapers still pour in every day and there’s not much we can do about it.

But then there’s Canada: a nation of environmental moralizers who live in a vast expanse but can’t seem to find a place to put their garbage besides their neighbor’s lawn.

Person waves at passing truck near stop sign as Canadian waste haulers transport garbage to Michigan landfills

The Constitution’s commerce clause forbids Michigan from charging out-of-state and international garbage haulers a higher price than we pay ourselves. That can only be done by an act of Congress. And you know Michigan’s unserious Congressional delegation.

So we in the Great Lakes State are stuck with mountains of foreign shit, the stench of methane and rot, and hundreds of Canadian trucks busting up our roads each day.

There is too much division in Michigan between the red-hatters and the green-thumbers. But I’ve got an idea I think we can all agree upon.

Tariff their garbage. Big beautiful tariffs. The best tariffs probably in the history of the world. The president has sweeping executive powers. Put a 100% tariff on Canadian garbage, and we can stop the flow altogether.

And after that, maybe we can talk about opening the new bridge.

[Charlie LeDuff @Charlieleduff]

To:  Nathan A. Robbins Esq.
        Sommers Schwartz, P.C.

Sir, I read with great bemusement the federal complaint filed on behalf of your client Taryn Asher
against her former employer Fox 2 News.

Like too much of Ms. Asher's journalism, portions of the document are both graceless and inaccurate. Congratulations. You've captured her nicely.

This sordid episode is of little interest to me excepting for the passage
referencing me and an incident 13 years ago. Specifically, section 115 (c) in your complaint.

For the record, I was never arrested nor charged with any crime whatsoever.

I do not know your hourly rate but a simple internet search would have shown you this.

Regards,
Charlie LeDuff M.J.

[Charlie LeDuff @Charlieleduff]

Super weird.
Donnie Brasco weird.
FBI weird.
Pay attention, it's about to get weirder, Michigan.

[Michigan Enjoyer @mich_enjoyer]

The Northland Dirt Scandal Keeps Getting Weirder
They're building a soccer stadium on the site now, and the developer seems to have ties to the FBI

By Charlie LeDuff @Charlieleduff

Southfield — Things are getting weird at the old Northland Mall site. Tough-guy tactics, a federal sting, dirty dirt, and a soccer terrordome.

Workers for developers at the 114-acre plot in the middle of Southfield were picking cement blocks out of the mountains of dirt last week and then moving the dirt to the northern edge of the urban wasteland.

Across the street are Providence Hospital, a day-care center, and a mega church.

Previously, tons of this dirt made its way into Detroit’s demolition holes. Detroit officials had the “soil” tested and it’s shown to be excessively contaminated and suspiciously similar to highway junk.

Like how bad? Like children-shouldn’t-play-near-it bad. Like long-term-cancer bad.

My partner Ken and I went there last Friday to film the plumes of dust being kicked up by an excavator, a dump truck, and a bulldozer pushing dirt around the lot.

That’s when a surly dude in a heavy-duty pick-up rolled up on us. He gave the stink-eye. The voodoo vibe. The grim peeper. He never rolled down his window and never said a word. He just idled for some time before driving away, only to cut a circle and do it all over again. The job was shut down for a good hour-and-a-half while this dude worked the phone.

The FBI is on the case, which now sprawls across two counties in southeastern Michigan. Workers and subcontractors are spilling their guts. Mike Duggan was forced to fall on his sword and drop out of the governor’s race. And the city of Southfield can’t—or won’t—produce soil analytics.

Weird.

In the midst of all this, the Southfield city council last month approved a 120,000-square-foot sports dome on the site that will be home to the Detroit City FC South Oakland soccer team.

When reached by telephone, the soccer club’s CEO Marcel Schmid said he had not seen soil analytics. “But it was discussed before the vote,” Schmid said. “If the city’s not concerned about it, then we’re not concerned about it.”

Suit yourself, Marcel, but you’ll never see me at the concession stand.

Why doesn’t the city of Southfield simply have the soil tested and post the results to the public? Where is the county in all this? The state? The feds?

While the FBI is indeed investigating the environmental scandal, I don’t think much will come of this considering that the Northland developer—Contour Companies—may be a confidential source for the federal government.

Consider: Contour Companies was involved in a major FBI public corruption sting in Jackson, Mississippi. In short, FBI agents posed as out-of-state developers, proposing a multi-million-dollar hotel project to the mayor there. The FBI straw company partnered with the real-life Contour Companies to create a bogus development scheme and then bribe local Jackson officials.

In a scene straight out of “Donnie Brasco,” the mayor of Jackson was plied with booze and boobs before he was filmed on a yacht in Miami taking bags of cash from undercover agents.

Why would a legitimate development company based in Michigan lend its name to an out-of-state FBI sting?

That can’t be good for business.

In the phony pitch to the mayor of Jackson, Contour claimed its $500 million Northland future city project—backstopped with millions of dollars in public subsidies —would be completed by the end of this calendar year.

Fuhgeddaboudit.

Meanwhile, the federal corruption trial of the mayor of Jackson begins next month.

[Charlie LeDuff @Charlieleduff]

No BS Newshour Episode #420
Private Parts Unknown
The next Bourdain or Bored-to-Death?

Dean ‘Dino’ Bach- America’s next great travel personality returns home.

Dino’s take on Gov. Whitmer’s data center, the RenCen deal, 60 Minutes and the state of journalism TV.

[Charlie LeDuff @Charlieleduff]

So the scuttlebutt is that Whitmer gets the presidency of MSU and Duggan gets U of M (maybe Snyder).
The bananacrats don't even try to hide the fact that our public universities are patronage swamps.
There are laws against this. They don't care.
I do.
I'll be watching.

[Michigan Enjoyer @mich_enjoyer]

Michigan's Elites Are Sucking on Oysters and Sucking Us Dry
They're holed up in the Grand Hotel with the cheerleading media to cook up new scams

By Charlie LeDuff @Charlieleduff

Work is for suckers.

And if you don’t want to be a sucker, plan your trip next year to the Mackinac Policy Conference.

It’s all about grafting and scheming, absolutely no work required.

It’s pricey, but a little seed money goes a long way in getting millions of dollars you have not earned. The ferries to the historic island are owned by a hedge fund. The Grand Hotel where the event is held is owned by a hedge fund. And we have the Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce to thank for it all.

The Chamber books the entire hotel for the last week in May and hosts a conference attended by corporate titans, elected officials from the uni-party, and members of the corporate media who are made to feel they are part of the elite crowd.

Tickets are $5,000 and do not include room and board (but again, a good investment for a non-sucker). And the best part is that the hoi polloi are absolutely forbidden from the grounds, creating a cozy cocoon stuffed with truffles and oysters.

The media gets in free so they will publish glowing publicity about the latest scams concocted by the titans and bureaucrats to fleece you, the average guy and gal.

Look! There goes Mike Duggan wearing the same blue-checked sport coat that he usually wears to convince you that he too is an average guy and gal.

This year’s conference, which is still ongoing, was to be Mike’s coronation as governor. The Chamber wished to reward him for decades of making rich men even richer. The politicos were going for it and so were the media types. Just ply them with chocolates and champagne and listen to them bark talking points as if they were sea lions.

But Mike bailed on his big gov bid because we blew him up. Contaminated dirt is really just a metaphor. There’s other stuff. A lot of stuff. The nurses remember. The coroner remembers. The teachers remember. The cops remember. White Boy Rick remembers.

The Feds and the Democrats have a phone book of dirt on the guy.

Mike’s malfeasance runs long and cuts deep, and there is no amount of corporate money to disappear it this time. For the first time in his career, Duggan’s political enemies have more money than he does.

The chatter is that Mike is headed to Ann Arbor to run the university as a nice parting gift for going quietly. It’s fait accompli. Sure there would be a cursory national search, but wouldn't you know it? We couldn't find anyone better than Mike all along.

That’s the purpose of the conference. Wheel and deal with other people’s stuff. Our university. Our land. Our money.

To all the kleptocrats sleeping at the Grand Hotel tonight, let me spell this out in capital letters: THERE IS NO F***ING WAY

And if you see him up there, somebody please tell that to Engler. And tell him he may want to jump on the 9 o'clock ferry and catch a limousine home. It’s over.

[Charlie LeDuff @Charlieleduff]

No BS Newshour Episode #419
Swine Time at Fantasy Island

The Mackinac Policy Convention on historic Mackinac Island- where the rich dine on chocolate, oysters, and the working class.

Our exclusive report with Karen Dumas.

Duggan came, in what was supposed to be his coronation, but he tripped over the horse dung and now he’s out.

Plus- don’t believe the media barking seals.
Whitmer’s one of the most unpopular governors in America.

You’ll find the facts inside.

[Charlie LeDuff @Charlieleduff]

KICKED OFF THE ISLAND!
They said I didn't meet the standards of journalism.
They didn't want me reporting the sell-out of our collective future or their orgy in the horse barn.
The Mackinac Policy Conference is a crime.
Michigan'S version of the White House Correspondents Dinner.

[Michigan Enjoyer @mich_enjoyer]

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Charlie LeDuff DENIED entrance into the Mackinac Policy Conference! @Charlieleduff

[Charlie LeDuff @Charlieleduff]

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💥 BOOM!
Duggan's out.
Why?
And how's he get paid off?
Here 👇

[Michigan Enjoyer @mich_enjoyer]

Duggan Dropped Out Because He Oversaw Detroit's Poisoning @supermarkus
https://t.co/BxSBYysCY5

[Charlie LeDuff @Charlieleduff]

Not 24 hours later , Duggan is out As MI gubernatorial candidate.
He's still got that FBI case, though.

[Charlie LeDuff @Charlieleduff]

No BS Newshour Episode #418
S#!T Storm- Poison Dirt Everywhere

(5:24) We’ve got the Whistleblowers laying out the scheme.
The Feds have their numbers.

(11:42) One alleges Duggan-backed company ran wild and ran a double set of books.

(29:34) Another claims thousands of tons of highly toxic dirt was shipped from Southfield and dumped in Detroit.

(46:29) Meanwhile Duggan had left Detroit broke and spiraling toward bankruptcy.

(50:36) AND- CEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY at the Mackinac Policy Pig F**k.

[Charlie LeDuff @Charlieleduff]

Detroit (and Southfield) drowning in poison dirt, it appears. And I'm locked out in the rain.
Why? New whistleblowers and fresh documents.
The FBI is on the case.
Meanwhile, Lover Boy sues the inspector tasked with inspecting him.
Not even OJ did that.

[Michigan Enjoyer @mich_enjoyer]

Disgraced Demo Contractor Blames Duggan for Detroit's Poisoning
I was invited for an exclusive interview with Lover Boy, but he chickened out, so here's what I would have asked him

By Charlie LeDuff @Charlieleduff

Lover Boy left me standing in a monsoon.

I had been invited to his press conference for an exclusive interview to hear former Gayanga CEO Brian McKinney’s side of things regarding the mass poisoning of Detroit.

Then, thinking better of it, Lover Boy had me put out on the street.

I was standing on Jefferson when the heavens opened. The bums at the bus stop scattered. My papers got drenched. But that’s okay. I had the subject matter memorized.

Good thing I'd brought a bullhorn. I shouted my questions over the howling winds while Lover Boy was six floors up, spinning the media with tales of woe and done-me-wrong. I hoped they could hear me up there.

McKinney, the former consort of Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield, is being investigated by a host of law enforcement agencies—including the FBI—for faking receipts for clean dirt, charging the city top dollar for it, and then dumping the toxic garbage into the neighborhoods when it should have gone to a landfill. This bad dirt could cause cancer.

McKinney agrees that the city has been poisoned. But he blames former Mayor Mike Duggan and his cronies for supplying him with the toxic dirt.

The clean up could cost more than $100 million and send the city spiraling back into bankruptcy. And $100 million is exactly the amount McKinney is suing the Detroit Inspector General for. He claims the Inspector defamed him for inspecting his work.

That’s like O.J. Simpson suing the LAPD for investigating a break-in.

There’s little doubt O.J. did it. But I don’t know if McKinney did. I’ll leave that to Johnny Lawman and the courts. Sheffield, Duggan, and the City Council are all hiding in their badger holes, leaving concerned citizens in the dark. So in the interest of public health, I shouted what I thought were a few important questions through the purifying rains.

- Did McKinney remember Mike? Mike was his former foreman in charge of writing up the questionable dirt receipts. Mike reached out to me last week claiming the receipts were forgeries. Mike sent me copies of tickets written in his own hand, showing truck drivers allegedly being in two different places collecting dirt at the same time. Was McKinney aware of this? Mike claims he was.

- Or what about McKinney’s former bookkeeper who alleges there was a forgery mill going on in the back office?

- Or what about the Northland redevelopment job in Southfield, where the contaminated dirt allegedly came from that went into Gayanga’s demolition holes? Does McKinney know that the prominent contractor on that site is cooperating with the authorities?

- Did he discuss business with then-city councilwoman Sheffield while they were “getting to know each other” at a Miami hotel underneath 350-thread count sheets? Sheffield told the public last fall that she never voted on a contract for Gayanga while she was canoodling with McKinney. But that turned out to be a lie.

- How did McKinney meet Mayor Mike Duggan? How did he become Hizzoner’s preferred minority demo contractor? Why was he allowed to work without construction insurance? Did Duggan appoint him to the Detroit Institute of Arts board of directors?

- What about the millions of dollars subcontractors claim McKinney owes them? Who’s going to pay them? Who’s going pay for this massive clean-up?

- And how did McKinney link up with Bobby Ferguson’s old crew? While Bobby was doing time in federal prison for Kwame-related things, McKinney became business partners with Bobby’s ex-wife. He hired Bobby’s cousin. He used Bobby’s equipment and staging yard.

I had more questions, but the tropical winds were really buffeting by then. Dirt was blowing in my eyes. No telling where it had come from.

[Charlie LeDuff @Charlieleduff]

I caught a case because i'm making the case... the people deserve better... run these bums out.

[Michigan Enjoyer @mich_enjoyer]

Looks like the police would rather investigate Charlie than deal with the poisonous dirt in their city! @Charlieleduff

[Charlie LeDuff @Charlieleduff]

Cluck around and find out.

[Charlie LeDuff @Charlieleduff]

BREAKING -- The first criminal complaint has been filed in the sprawling poisoned Detroit dirt scandal.
And It's against me.
Seriously.
It's so stupid, so outrageous, that I went to surrender myself to police with my representative -- Chicken Joe Demarco.

[Michigan Enjoyer @mich_enjoyer]

Detroit Got Poisoned, But They're Opening a Case Against Me
No one went to jail for the Flint Water Crisis, and so far only this journalist has caught a case over Duggan's poisoned dirt

By Charlie LeDuff @Charlieleduff

Southfield — Flint got poisoned, but nobody did a single day in jail.

People got sick—and some died—from water fed to them from a river famously polluted with car batteries and corpses.

And the hogs responsible for that calamity? They're laughing it up somewhere over a Porterhouse and a glass of Bordeaux.

Now it’s the people of Southfield who may be the latest victims of a mass poisoning. This time it’s toxic dirt.

Will anyone get charged for that? So far, I seem to be the only person who has caught a case.

It’s no secret that the FBI has opened a book on former Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan and his demolition program. Authorities allege that Duggan’s handpicked contractor was allowed to run wild, throwing contaminated soil too toxic for human touch into holes where houses once stood and charging big bucks for it.

Where did Duggan’s contractor get this dirt? Investigators say that least some of it came from Southfield. Specifically, from the old Northland Mall site that has been under redevelopment for the better part of a decade. The dirt there was supposed to go to a landfill. Instead, it was used to fill people’s pockets.

No one seems to be digging into the Southfield side of things. Not as far as I know. Not the feds. Not the EPA. Not the attorney general. Not the state environmental regulators. Not even the newspapers, even though Northland site still has mountains of dirt blowing all over the community.

I called the Southfield Police Department to check up on the status of the complaint I filed a few weeks ago—for crimes against humanity.

That case is going nowhere, a detective told me.

I was informed, however, that a case has been opened up on me. Trespassing. The police department even put two detectives on the case. According to the complaint filed by the developer “there has been ongoing trespassing issues with Charlie LeDuff… one of which he recorded a YouTube video while on the property.”

The developer, Contour Companies Vice President Dave Dedvukaj, further stated: “It is unknown where LeDuff is making his entry.”

Simple. Through the open gates near the unfinished offices of the unfinished condominium block where a curious member of the public might inquire about purchasing an unfinished condo surrounded by contaminated dirt.

Imagine that. We are a year into this scandal, and I’m the only one who’s caught some legal paperwork.

The whole episode is so cockamamie that I brought along Joe Demarco to the Southfield Police Department this week to act as my representative as I surrendered myself to the authorities.

Demarco does not have a law degree, but he does own a shabby chicken costume and possesses a certificate of completion from the Specs Howard School of Media Arts.

I figure this at least qualifies Demarco as a legitimate alternative to the current mayor of Southfield, Ken Siver.

I promised the detective I would keep myself to the sidewalk. But also I promise the people of Detroit and Southfield I'll get to the bottom of things.

The people of Flint deserve my apology. I didn't do enough.

That won't happen again.

[Charlie LeDuff @Charlieleduff]

MY GOD --
Not a single Democrat Senator showed up to today's hearing featuring the government's own lead investigator into the true origins of Covid and the cover-up orchestrated by Fauci and CIA brass.
Do they think this is a f*cking joke?

[Nicolas Hulscher, MPH @NicHulscher]

20-YEAR CIA VETERAN CONFIRMS ANTHONY FAUCI AND THE CIA INTENTIONALLY COVERED UP COVID’S LAB ORIGIN

CIA analysts knew it in 2020 (5-1 vote).

They were literally prepping a public “lab leak” announcement in August 2021…

…until Fauci stepped in and BURIED it.

[Charlie LeDuff @Charlieleduff]

No BS Newshour Episode #417
Lefty Besties

(18:13) Whitmer gal pal Fay Beydoun now indicted on $20 million scam.
What Gov. Whitmer did & what she knew.

(0:04) Finally- a suspect identified in the Southfield poison dirt scandal.
The problem is, it’s me… for trespassing.

(54:04) Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield a homewrecker?

(1:03:43) Mike Duggan’s Epstein connection.

(1:06:35) AND Spencer Pratt- with enemies like this he just might win the LA Mayoral race.