A year after Turkia Mullin was removed as Metro Airport's executive director, Fox 2's Charlie LeDuff "obtained the recording of the back-room deal where the airport commissioners fired her in the wake of the Wayne County severance [pay] scandal." The flamboyant newsman, looking snazzy in a pilot's cap, reports from the airport: You can hear that some of the airport commissioners believe that Mullin was trying to turn Metro Airport into (Bob Ficano's) ATM, awarding million-dollar, retroactive, no-bid contracts to the county.
You also hear on the recording that while Mullin was running the airport, she wanted to maintain her position as executive director of Edge Opportunities.
Ficano, the county executive, declined to comment directly because of pending legal action. "All I can say is that things have been taken care of," he tells LeDuff. "We're moving forward in the county, and I think the airport at this point hasn't suffered any consequences whatsoever."
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