I guess "This doesn't pass the smell test" is one way of putting it.

"A prominent Detroit property tax official moonlights as an executive for Home Team — the fledgling Detroit real estate company that recently pitched a controversial plan to acquire thousands of foreclosed homes — raising questions about a potential conflict of interest.

Willie Donwell is well-known around the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center as chairman of the Detroit Board of Review, a nine-member panel that hears and determines property tax appeals and other real estate matters. "The Godfather of property taxes" was how Councilman Scott Benson described Donwell at a City Council meeting last month."

http://www.freep.com/story/news/loca...ons/100460728/