Four city councilmembers could be facing felony election charges

Four of the six current members of the Hamtramck City Council—plus one former member—are under criminal investigation for fraud and conspiracy to illegally obtain absentee ballots in the city's 2023 elections, according to newly released documents from the Michigan Attorney General's Office, which last month requested the appointment of a special prosecutor to handle the "religiously and socially sensitive" case. The investigation includes curre…

Four city councilmembers could be facing felony election charges

Mohammed Hassan   By Charles Sercombe After months of public speculation, and also growing frustration from Hamtramck City Clerk Rana Faraj, the state Attorney General has finally pulled the trigger. And that metaphorical trigger is the petitioning of the Michigan Prosecuting Attorneys Coordinating Council (PACC) to appoint a special prosecutor to take over the cases of four current city councilmembers, a former city councilmember, and a sixth p…