Shameful ending CFO

Burglary, and there was not burglarizing the house of a widow who can attend the funeral of her husband. No double dipping, rather than skimming the taxpayer hundreds of thousands of dollars to the city, which has closed its own fire department.

That is what the three proposed by the Board of Directors of the former Commissioner Uayne Canton Art Blackuell fact, when he served as a park in the hills of emergency financial manager. Blackuell was fired Friday after members of the committee concluded had committed a "flagrant violation of public trust" paid hundreds of thousands of dollars more than the state authorized.

Blackwell Gov. Jennifer Granholm called Highland Park Emergency Financial Services, using a $ 1 per year, but local economic emergency government loan last April his salary to $ 11,000 per month, is retroactive to October 2007 -- when the current total of a lot less than he has apparently collected. Blackwell said his research should focus on Highland Park improved fiscal situation, which he claims credit.

Highland Park workers undoubtedly pleased to learn of your pension fund is solvent. But the argument that the emergency financial manager to exploit its extraordinary ability to enrich themselves further than he worked for a permit or afford a very serious matter which undermines public confidence in government integrity.

Blackwell was better to prepare more detailed explanation of the check-writing wastage. And it seems that he better be ready to share is a jury of their peers.