Transparency fail? AG Mike Cox releases tax records, but not info on Tamara Greene case

Yesterday, it was announced that Attorney General Mike Cox became the first gubernatorial candidate in Michigan’s history to make his tax returns public.

But there’s still one thing that has yet to see the light of day: His testimony in the case of an exotic dancer killed seven years ago.

As The Detroit News points out, Cox has yet to file a motion to unseal his deposition regarding the investigation of Tamara Greene’s murder. Greene, whose murder is still unsolved, was highly rumored to be at a still-unproven party at the Manoogian Mansion during former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s tenure.

The Detroit News, March 16: Chief U.S. District Judge Gerald E. Rosen said, “I will seal his deposition initially,” but “if the attorney general wants it unsealed, I’ll entertain a motion to unseal.” During the first day of Cox’s deposition in December, his spokesman John Sellek said Cox would make a motion to unseal the deposition. But when Cox left the federal courthouse at the end of the deposition on Jan. 25 and was asked about unsealing his deposition, he said: “We argued that,” but “the judge said no.” No motion to unseal the deposition has been filed.

Earlier this month, Cox said he was unable to release phone records related to the Greene case. An attorney for Greene’s family was hoping that Cox’s phone records would shed more light on the investigation.

http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2010/03/transparency_fail_ag_mike_cox.html