For Five months, the Defendant's Law Firm and the Presiding Judge failed to disclose this fact to an indigent pair of plaintiffs looking to get time sensitive public records through the Freedom of Information Act. Records that could have changed the course of a municipal election by showing an appearance of impropriety in the awarding of signmaking payments (without a contract and between an affianced couple of public servants working for the money-dispensing DDA Board).
Craig Richard Cooper is the son of Judge Richard Cooper and an associate of the law firm coming forward and representing the City in the civil action.
I've been researching my records from the past and found this record from April, 2010. This shows that Craig Cooper was not an associate at that firm then (assuming the letterhead was up to date), but has made that leap since then.
Well X, this strongly represents what I was eluding to in another thread. Your document research clearly shows Craig was in practice there since at least last October 2011, which is very damning to Sr. imho. Wonder how long he's really been on the payroll with the other City Attorneys? When this is reported, as I would hope it is, to the Michigan Bar and other high authorities in the legal system, the local scene in the courthouse may have some big changes, hopefully, for the better.
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