Disgraced Detroit Metro Airport chief James Warner was reportedly discovered useless subsequent to a automobile and a can of compressed nitrogen.
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A Detroit airport boss convicted of bribery killed himself at some point after he was scheduled to start serving a 10-year jail sentence, officers stated.
Federal marshals discovered the physique of James Warner, former Detroit Metropolitan Airport supervisor, within the storage at his house in Commerce Township Friday, in line with studies. They issued an emergency arrest warrant for him after he failed to indicate as much as jail on Thursday morning.
Warner, 55, was seated subsequent to a automobile and a can of compressed nitrogen, in line with a report within the Detroit Free Press.
He's believed to have died of carbon monoxide poisoning, the outlet stated. An post-mortem is scheduled for at the moment.
Warner had been convicted on a number of bribery and cash laundering prices in June 2019. In line with prosecutors, Warner had steered $43.7 million value of airport contracts to 3 co-conspirators in change for a $6 million bribe.
“There are not any phrases that I can articulate how I really feel about this,” Warner’s lawyer Harold Gurewitz instructed the Detroit Free Press.
Final month, the U.S. Supreme Courtroom denied his request to evaluation Warner’s corruption case, the most important within the metropolis’s historical past.
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