Has Mayor Jim Fouts Called Everyone For a State Investigation — Except The Actual State?

MACOMB COUNTY, MI — Warren Mayor Jim Fouts has plead on TV stations, radio shows and in newspaper interviews for a state investigation into the alleged illegal dumping and subsequent cover-up at the Freedom Hill landfill in Sterling Heights. There's just one person Fouts allegedly hasn't reached out to yet. The attorney general.

"We have not yet received any information or requests regarding Freedom Hill," Andrea Bitely, Press Secretary/Communications Director for Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette, wrote in an email to Patch on Nov. 29.

Fouts did not immediately respond to Patch's request for a comment.

Freedom Hill has been a source of controversy in the Macomb political world as of late. Fouts says that Macomb County dumped up to 150,000 yards of excavating dirt at the Freedom Hill site without permits and buried methane gas monitoring wells, which he claims released methane gas. Fouts further alleges there is a cover-up about the scandal brewing in Macomb County. Macomb County Executive Mark Hackel has gone on record that there was no illegal dumping or cover-up.

Photo via Mayor Jim Fouts' public Facebook page