Michigan Supreme Court Justice Diane Hathaway is staying mum on questions from WXYZ-TV reporter Ross Jones about the short sale of one of her homes.
Hathaway convinced a bank to sell Grosse Pointe Park home at a loss rather than go into a foreclosure. That can save a homeowner hundreds of thousands of dollars in mortgage payments.
But prior to Hathaway’s sale, she shuffled two homes out of her name: a Florida home went to her stepdaughter, and a second home in Grosse Pointe Park went to her stepson.
After the bank agreed to the short sale on Hathaway’s Lake St. Clair home and the Florida home went back into Hathaway’s name.
The home where Hathaway is living now was just recently put into her name, but its first owner was Hathaway’s stepdaughter. According to records, she bought it for almost $195,000 in cash around the same time Hathaway’s bank was mulling over her short sale.
Jones notes the language in one of Hathaway's campaign commercials in 2008:
"She knows we must restore fairness and honor to the Michigan Supreme Court."
