Mike Duggan pushes back against report he outed FBI informant amid city hall investigation
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan is pushing back against suggestions he knowingly leaked the name of a confidential FBI source to other people after a councilman alerted him to a Detroit City Hall public corruption investigation.
Duggan on Tuesday said he has "never disclosed" the identity of anyone he knew to be a confidential source in the ongoing federal investigation into Detroit's towing operations, the city police department and other matters, known as "Operation Northern Hook." Duggan spoke in response to a Detroit News news report published Tuesday linking him to the investigation.
Duggan said that after then-Councilman Andre Spivey told him in spring 2021 that he had accepted money from a tow operator, the mayor informed the city's law department and Detroit Police Department. Both departments "had active investigations and litigations with this tower and we needed to make sure that this individual would not be able to continue doing business," Duggan said at a news conference Tuesday at the Mackinac Policy Conference on Mackinac Island.
Spivey was sentenced to two years in prison in January for taking bribes as a public official.
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