Wednesday, 24 July 2013 10:02
'Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr and members of his former law firm discussed the potential of Orr taking the job and filing a Detroit bankruptcy weeks before he was formally appointed, emails obtained through a court order show.
Union activist Robert Davis distributed a snippet of the January and February correspondence between the Jones Day firm, Orr and an aide from Gov. Rick Snyder’s office during a press conference Monday at the AFSCME hall in downtown Detroit. Snyder appointed Orr as emergency manager in March.
“It’s an outright slap in the face to the citizens in the city of Detroit,” Davis said of the emails. “It clearly indicates from Day One ... the decision (to seek bankruptcy) was already made.”'
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