Joseph Turner Jr.
Perhaps this is all part of Detroit's effort to purge its toxic past as 2015 gets underway.
Robert Snell and Christine Ferretti of The Detroit News report that city’s Police and Fire pension fund fired a lawyer Thursday linked to a bribery scandal, saying it no longer had confidence in him. The scandal cost retirees almost $100 million.
The paper reported that the pension fund voted 9-7 vote to fire general counsel Joseph Turner and his law firm, Clark Hill.:
The 9-7 vote to fire general counsel Joseph Turner and his law firm, Clark Hill, comes three weeks after The News exclusively reported that some members of the pension fund had lost confidence in Turner. His continued involvement in the pension board raised questions about the city's ability to move past a history of corruption, mismanagement and bad investments that helped push Detroit into bankruptcy, critics said.
