| I've been forwarded this article probably half a dozen times today already, so I'm not really telling anyone anything new. Still, ought to be here just for the record, I suppose. Detroit -- Attorney General Mike Cox can't turn over his home phone records in connection with a lawsuit brought by the family of a slain exotic dancer because he doesn't remember and can't find out what phone company he used in 2003, a federal judge was told today. Norman Yatooma, the attorney for the family of dancer Tamara "Strawberry" Greene, has requested records of phone calls between Cox and four others from around the time in 2003 when Cox investigated a rumored stripper party at the mayor's Manoogian Mansion that allegedly occurred in the fall of 2002. Frank Monticello, an attorney for Cox, told U.S. Magistrate Judge R. Steven Whalen that Cox has provided records from his office phone and his personal cell phone. But officials in Cox's office haven't been able to determine what company provided Cox's home phone service in Livonia in 2003, despite seeking assistance from both the criminal division and the public service commission division, Monticello said.
... Update! ... I'm glad someone reminded me via e-mail of something that popped to mind earlier today. If Cox doesn't have phone service records from seven years ago, what about financial records? Wouldn't his bank be able to tell him which Livonia-area phone company he was writing checks to at the time? |
