Maroun family with sweetheart deal from Detroit/Duggan
>>Sweetheart deal? Detroit struggles to get property owners to pay fines on its blight tickets, as wealthy owners can string out the appeals process. That’s perhaps why the city settled with the Moroun family for $50,000 on blight tickets at nearly 2,000 properties, though it didn’t tell Axios Detroit how much the company had owed. The Morouns paid off $146,000 in blight tickets in 2015. The deal also requires the company to pay an inspection fee every two years based on how many properties it owns. The fee this year was $12,766. (Axios Detroit)