Saturday, March 03, 2012

Corrupt officials' time is up, Detroit FBI chief says



The FBI's top official in Detroit declared war on public corruption Thursday, hours after law enforcement officials announced a new task force to combat it.

Andrew Arena, special agent in charge of the Detroit office of the FBI, called corruption in the region "generational, systematic, part of the culture."

"It takes a whole lot to penetrate that," he said. "It's kind of like a war. You penetrate the enemy's defenses."

Arena declined to name the enemies he was referring to, saying he could not talk about ongoing investigations. He has overseen investigations of ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, as well as Wayne County government under County Executive Robert Ficano.

"You see what's out there," he said, in an apparent reference to news media coverage of federal investigations of Detroit and Wayne County government.

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