Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano
DETROIT -- Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano announced Friday that he has suspended two county staff members and fired a contracted employee.
Deputy County Executive Azzam Elder and and Director of Corporation Council Maryann Tallen were suspended. County Personnel Director Tim Taylor was fired.
Ficano was investigating a severance pay scandal involving former Chief Development Officer Turkia Mullin, who is the new CEO at Detroit Metro Airport.
Mullin voluntarily left the county position to work for the airport. She received a severance paycheck of more than $200,000.
Ficano says employees who quit no longer will receive severance packages. He requested that Mullin return the money, something she said she would do.
"This should have never happened," Ficano said. "I accept full responsibility for that mistake and I am putting in place these procedures to make sure that nothing like that happens again."
Officials had said the deal was in Mullin's old contract. She now makes $250,000 annually as chief executive of the county-owned airport in Romulus.
Ficano says protocol was not followed in crafting Mullin's severance package.
He said he suspended Elder and Tallen, and fired Taylor, because they had roles in Mullin's severance deal.
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