DETROIT — Eighty-four-year-old Lebanese American billionaire
Manual ‘Matty’ Moroun |
was ordered to jail by Circuit Judge Prentis Edwards Thursday morning. His top aide Dam Stamper was also imprisoned.
They are being forced to comply with Edwards’ order of completing the building of ramps connecting the Ambassador Bridge to nearby expressways, part of the Gateway Project according to the Detroit Free Press.
Moroun is the owner of CenTra, Inc., the holding company which controls the Ambassador Bridge. For years the Michigan Department of Transportation has taken legal efforts to get Moroun’s company to finish the Gateway Project at the Ambassador Bridge. Gateway is a $230-million project in partnership with MDOT and Moroun’s company. In 2009 MDOT filed a lawsuit because Moroun’s company wasn’t working on its part of the project.
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