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Scandals derail 30-year political career for Wayne County’s Ficano
Wayne County Executive Bob Ficano was 6,600 miles from home in Beijing when his 30-year political career jumped the tracks.
It was before dawn in China, Sept.
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29, 2011, when word back home leaked out that Ficano had approved a $200,000 severance package for top aide Turkia Awada Mullin when she left to take a better job at Metro Airport.
Ficano’s disjointed response, plus the 12-hour time difference, magnified the perception that he was out of touch.
Ficano spent almost three years trying to shed that image, but a series of blunders, played out beneath a public glare, only made matters worse.
An ongoing grand jury probe of county government, which netted four guilty pleas and one conviction on corruption related charges, made Ficano’s name toxic in voters’ mind.
On Tuesday, they rendered their verdict, giving Ficano just 6% of the vote in an 11-person primary race with 72% of precincts reporting.
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