Detroit council gave $1 million to poll worker firm tied to jailed ex-Mayor, used in other elections

Just the News has uncovered that the City of Detroit awarded a $1 million contract to P.I.E. Management, LLC to hire up to 2,000 workers to work the polls and staff the ballot counting machines.

The firm is owned by William Phillips, a long-time advisor to ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who is currently serving a 28-year sentence on federal corruption-related charges.

Also worth knowing, Kwame Kilpatrick was declared the loser in the 2005 Detroit mayoral election but was later certified as the winner after a batch of absentee ballots arrived late into election night, pushing Kilpatrick to victory.

William Phillips was a senior level advisor to Kilpatrick's campaign in that election.

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