Late ’06 post-election political contributions of another $4,200 from Michael J. Malik, Sr., ($117, 200 in total from Malik and the Ilitch Family) flowed to Stabenow the week before she announced $906,000 grant to a Bay Mills Indians enterprise in which Malik owns a 49% stake.
Federal Election Commission (FEC) reports:
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Previous posts have acknowledged that Michael J. Malik, Sr. and the Ilitch Family contributed $113,000 to Senator Debbie Stabenow’s (D-MI) re-election efforts. The money started flowing to Stabenow after she introduced a bill in 2002 that would by Act of Congress authorize the Bay Mills Indian Community to build an “off-reservation” casino in Port Huron, MI; 350 miles away from the Reservation. Malik and Ilitch have been bankrolling the Tribe’s efforts for nearly a decade, maybe more.
And we’ve also posted news that Stabenow had announced in mid-December a $900,000+ grant was headed to the Bay Mills Indian Community for a business enterprise involving the research and manufacturing of plastics (a venture in which Michael Malik reportedly owns 49%).
Now that post-election 2006 campaign finance reports have been logged, FEC records indicate that Malik contributed two more checks of $2,100 each after Election Day (both logged on 12/15/06) to Stabenow’s re-election committee. Those additional contributions came less than a week before Stabenow announced the $900,000+ Bay Mills grant; Malik’s two contributions both at the maximum allowable under federal election law totaled $4,200.
Not a bad investment for Malik, even if the casino deal never come through, considering he owns 49% of the plastics venture; Malik’s “share” of the Federal Grant is $443,940.
And with the addition of Malik’s late contributions, the grand total of contributions from Malik & the Ilitch Family for Stabenow’s re-election increases to $117,200.
U.S. Department of Commerce
Economic Development Administration
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EDA announced 19 investments greater than $100,000 during the period December 18-22, 2006, totaling $13,414,396. These investments were part of projects totaling $44,135,859, creating over 2,048 jobs, saving 43 jobs, and generating more than $289.9 million in private investments. |
| $906,000 for a joint investment with the Bay Mills Indian Community and the Bay Mills Community College, Brimley, Michigan, to construct an industrial facility to house the Great Lakes Composites Institute providing space for research, testing, training and manufacturing in the plastics technology in Chippewa County. This investment is part of a $1,510,000 project that will help create 55 jobs and generate more than $2.8 million in private investments. |
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