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by  Allan Lengel Ibraheem Musaibli Update, 4:45 p.m. Monday: Ibraheem Musaibli, 30, of Dearborn, who is accused of being an ISIS soldier, won't go free while awaiting his October trial on terrorism charges, U.S. District Judge David Lawson ruled Monday. Federal authorities alleged in court papers that Musaibli had threatened to kill one of his lawyer if released. Still, his team of attorneys had argued that he should go free. But Lawson ruled that Musaibli might flee the state if freed, The Detroit News reports. Original article, Saturday: A legal team is fi...

by  Allan Lengel Ibraheem Musaibli A legal team is fighting to get bond for a Dearborn man accused of being an ISIS soldier who hates America. However, the man has threatened to kill his lawyer as soon as he's released, according to a government court filing. U.S. District Judge David Lawson in Detroit will decide the bond issue Monday for Ibraheem Musaibli, 30, held in the Livingston County Jail on charges linked to the Islamic extremist group. A trial is set for October.  The story of the bond issue was first reported by Robert Snell of The Detroit News....

Scott Seligman (DepositPhotos) Sterling Bank & Trust founder Scott Seligman, a minority owner of the San Francisco Giants, is implicated in a major fraud case. Robert Snell of The Detroit News reports that Seligman: Knew about and provided "encouragement" for a years-long criminal conspiracy involving a loan program that helped his family reap a $115 million windfall, according to federal court records. Seligman has not been charged with wrongdoing, but the alleged conspiracy surfaced in a new criminal case that follows months of questions raised in a separate civil lawsuit about money ...

Share April 24, 2021, 2:03 PM The words "threatening violence" and "Gretchen Whitmer" appear near each other again in the first sentence of news coverage. The topic this time is a New Yorker's arrest after a three-month federal manhunt ended Friday in central Florida, Robert Snell reports in a Detroit News scoop: Jonathan Joshua Munafo, 34, of Albany was arrested and charged with communicating an interstate threat in the latest case alleging extremism in Michigan. The case was unsealed Friday, six months after the FBI said agents thwarted a plot to kidnap and kill Whitmer...

Share April 01, 2021, 4:35 PM The Detroit News' ace federal law enforcement reporter, Robert Snell, drops another bombshell behind the paper's paywall Thursday: The story of Marty Tibbitts, a popular and respected Grosse Pointe Park businessman who led a secret life as financier of an international cocaine-smuggling ring.  Marty Tibbitts' house once belonged to Alto Reed, Bob Seger's sax player (File photo) The case is filled with secret underwater gadgets, double lives and an alleged Metro Detroit connection to an innovative drug ring. The drug ring and Tibbitts were dev...