“If you just speak to knowledgeable people in the community you could easily be dissuaded from disparaging our court.”
A Grand Traverse County probate judge used nearly $70,000 in public funds to avert a threatened whistle-blowers‘ lawsuit, a newspaper reported Sunday.
Judge David L. Stowe last year spent court funds to head off the possible suit by Michael Stein, former top administrator for the 13th Circuit Court’s Family Division, the Traverse City Record-Eagle reported.
Stowe fired Stein in March 2007 after the State Court Administrator’s Office closed a probe sparked by Stein’s complaint about the judge and Cynthia Marie Curry, a former family court employee who worked under Stowe from 2002 to 2005. Read more



