Searching the website of the Michigan state attorney general while researching a story at work today, I went through the list of initiatives that he has lately supported- i.e., cutting down on identity theft, chasing deadbeat dads, and investigating rising gas prices. But one recent accomplishment, I thought, stood out in particular:
Cox Issues Warrant for Ex-NFL Star Andre Rison May 27, 2004LANSING – Attorney General Mike Cox announced today that a warrant has been issued for former NFL football star Andre Rison for failure to pay $94,891.22 in back child support. The Attorney General’s office has additionally asked the FBI to issue a fugitive flight warrant, typically issued when a suspect is out-of-state and considered a flight risk.
It is only decorum, and respect for the dead I suppose, which prevented the AG's office from throwing in the obligatory paragraph about how "Rison is the former husband of the late singer Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, who was arrested in 1993 for burning down Rison's Atlanta home."
Posted by Stephen Silver at June 17, 2004 01:37 AM