“Judge Mark Somers is the most ethical judge I have seen, and he is consistent,” the ad claims that Salamey said.

However, Salamey said he did not say these words.

“This is a great distortion and totally false, misleading and not true,” Salamey told The Arab American News in a text message. “In response to general inquiries about the Court’s business and its Judges, I simply stated that: ‘In Dearborn , the process doesn’t allow for judge shopping. All of our three judges are ethical and consistent.’ Any variation of these statements are false and not true.”

It is worthy to note that our newspaper is not responsible for the content of the ad, which was paid for by Zuhair Abdel-Hak, a Dearborn Heights businessman.