Quote Originally Posted by downtownguy View Post
Danny, get your facts straight. Andrew Park was the owner and developer of Asian Village. Dominic Pangborn, a pre-eminent Detroit artist, designer and business owner, created the concept and lent his design expertise to the project. It was located in GMs garage because they were given an offer from GM they couldn't refuse.

Pangborn split from Park shortly after Asian Village opened. Park eventually went to jail over tax evasion. He might have gotten 30 months, but he pleaded it down to one year when he agreed to testify that he paid bribes to Kilpatrick top aid Derrick Miller to get a loan on Asian Village and also to obtain a contract on an unrelated security related business.

It was Mr. Pangborn who got credit for Asian Village. Andrew Park don't want to be in the spotlight because of the project [[ from bribes and kickbacks from the Kilpatrick ' So I say the his black mafia organiztion') would fail. He would be in the news. Then the paper trail would lead further into a FBI investigation. This conspiracy was settled and Park got a light sentence. Mr. Pangborn got away from it, too. Both of them should have gotten 5 to 10 years at Club Fed if the tax evasion evidence was a solid case. But that objection in the 36 District Court was sustained.