Fifty-eight-year-old Dino Bucci is out on $10,000 unsecured bond and can’t travel outside of Michigan without the feds approval.
He’s facing 20 years in prison on 18 counts of Bribery, Conspiracy, Extortion, Embezzlement and made no comment as he left federal court.
Did Bucci act alone? Is he protecting anyone?
Sources tell 7 Investigator Jim Kiertzner that Bucci had an opportunity to cooperate with the feds and get a softer landing, but told them to walk.
A prominent name now emerging in the case is Bucci’s former boss, Tony Marrocco, the former Macomb County Public Works Commissioner who was voted out last year.
“I was not supportive of him in his re-election bid. There was a reason why,” Macomb County Executive Mark Hackel tells Kiertzner.
Among the allegations against Bucci are he directed county employees to plow snow at his house, his relatives’ homes and had his kid driven to school at taxpayers expense.
Former Macomb Township Supervisor Mark Grabow says of those employees, “No longer with they be in fear of being bullied, threatened with their jobs, be able to come to work and do the jobs they were hired to do.”
Hackel adds, “People were afraid to come forward because they didn’t know somebody was going to do something about it. Well now they know.”
