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State Senate Probes Fairgrounds Land Deal

DETROIT-A Michigan Senate committee is looking into potential wrongdoing in the sale of 36 acres of State Fairgrounds land here to developer Joe Nederlander. The Senate government operations committee has met twice in the past two weeks, most recently on Thursday, to interview witnesses and hear presentations of the different parties in the transaction.

By Robert Carr | Updated on October 12, 2001

DETROIT-A Michigan Senate committee is looking into potential wrongdoing in the saleof 36 acres of State Fairgrounds land in Detroit to developer Joe Nederlander. The Senate government operations committee has met twice in the last two weeks, most recently on Thursday, to interview witnesses and hear presentations of the different parties in the transaction.

“It’s a fact-finding committee tasked with the purpose of finding out what happened,” says Paul Bukowski, press secretary for State Sen. Thaddeus McCotter, (R-Livonia). “There is an appearance of wrongdoing. It’s the senators’ job to check into that. The committee will draw a conclusion, and see if something needs to be done.”

Phone calls to Nederlander for comment on the allegations were not returned.

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