Macomb Township Trustee Bucci “Bumbling Crook”

The Detroit News reports that embattled Macomb County Trustee Dino Bucci, indicted late last month on a collection of corruption charges, was presented as “a bumbling crook” in papers filed agains him by the FBI. The evidence was presented as part of a three-year inquiry into corruption by Bucci, who agents say they caught on video taking a bribe. Agents also wiretapped Bucci’s “burner” cellphone.

Bucci, a trusted lieutenant to former Macomb County Public Works Commissioner Anthony Marrocco, faces 18 counts in a wide-ranging public corruption scandal that touches at least three local communities. Papers filed in the case allege extortion, bribery, fraud, and money laundering. According to the News, Bucci is accused of making “hundreds of thousands of dollars” by “extorting engineering contractors who wanted public contracts, forcing county employees to drive his child to school and plow snow at his home.”

The FBI investigation into Macomb County politicians centers on allegations that the officials took bribes to award municipal contracts to Sterling Heights sanitation firm Rizzo Environmental Service, and Grosse Pointe Shores towing company owner Gasper Fiore.

For more information on this Macomb Township story, check out coverage by The Detroit News.

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