Promoter found unsuitable for gambling license is intimately involved in Homeland Security matters?

Background material distributed by a Detroit-based casino interest includes a biography for one of its principals, Michael J. Malik, Sr., that boasts the following:

“Mike is currently working on a homeland security project and recently served as the moderator of a homeland security panel in Ireland with Members of U.S. Congress, Senate and Foreign Embassy staff.”

In 1999, Detroit’s various news outlets reported Michael J. Malik, Sr. was disqualified from licensing by the Michigan Gaming Control Board (MGCB) and as such was forced to sell any shares and founding interest he had in group behind Detroit’s MotorCity Casino; yet now, he’s working on a "Homeland Security project" and entrusted with briefing Members of Congress on homeland security matters.

If the MGCB found Malik unsuitable to own and operate a commercial gambling enterprise in downtown Detroit, how is it that he’s now intimately involved in matters of Homeland Security? Is someone trying to rehabilitate Malik's reputation by suggesting he's now involved in "Homeland Security" or is that phrase code for "promoting Matty Moroun's do-over Ambassador bridge project?"

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