Taylor Mayor Rick Sollars received two standing ovations Thursday at his State of the City event, two days after the FBI raided his home and office.

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You'd think people would learn that you have to jump off the ship before it is totally subsummed.

The FBI in recent years has cracked down on pay-to-play schemes in the suburbs, taking down the Rizzo trash empire, locking up one township official for 17 years, and triggering 17 convictions and criminal charges against 22 public officials and contractors, including towing mogul Gasper Fiore, trash titan Chuck Rizzo and Detroit City Councilman Gabe Leland.


The Free Press reported in 2017 that Sollars backed a no-bid contract for Rizzo Environmental Services to collect trash in Taylor. The company's political action committee was the single largest donor to Sollars' campaign, donating $9,750 since 2013, but the mayor insisted he never saw signs of bribery for which the company later became notorious.