Did Romulus Mayor Alan Lambert engage in some shady dealings with topless bar owners?
Robert Snell of the Detroit News reports that Michigan State Police, who raided his home in March, are probing those issues.
Snell writes:
State Police are investigating allegations Romulus Mayor Alan Lambert pressured businessmen for money and, in one case, to buy his Florida condominium sight unseen, according to sources familiar with the investigation and one businessman questioned by police.
At issue is the sale of Marco Island, Fla., condominium to the matriarch of a family who owns area topless bars, including the Landing Strip. The popular Romulus strip club factors into a separate corruption case involving the city's police department.
Specifically, Snell writes that investigators are focusing in on " the sale of Lambert's timeshare condominium to Plymouth resident Mariam Saad, the mother of Northville resident Subi Junior Saad and brother Jason Saad, the Landing Strip's resident agent who lives in Grosse Ile."
The News reports that attorney Art Weiss says of his clients, brothers Subi and Jason Saad: "My clients are law-abiding citizens and they have engaged in no impropriety. "
The mayor bought the condo in 2006, and sold it years later to the mother of the bar owners when the real estate market in Florida went soft.
