Kevin Simowski (Linkedin photo)
Every mayoral administration has to have a little scandal.
Steve Neavling of Motor City Muckraker write that Kevin Simowski, head of the Detroit Land Bank, was fired after coming to work drunk and threatening and stalking an upper-management employee for six months.
Neavling reports:
Carrie Lewand-Monroe, who was then the principal director of the Land Bank, filed a personal protection order against her boss on Oct. 8, the same day he was fired as the director.
“He told me on one instance he owned a weapon and would kill himself because I stopped being his friend and would not have lunch with him,” Lewand, 38, wrote in the PPO. “Based on his actions, I am fearful and feel threatened.”
Lewand is the daughter of Thomas Lewand Sr., group executive for jobs and economic growth in Mayor Mike Duggan’s administration. She replaced her fired boss. Simowski was a friend and political ally of Duggan, Neavling reports.
