"You don’t put the city at risk of not being able to pay our police officers and our firefighters and scaring the hell out of citizens saying we’re going to run out of cash,” said Detroit City Council President Charles Pugh."
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Detroit was on the brink of a major fiscal crisis. The State of Michigan threatened to withhold $80 million in revenue sharing unless a lawsuit brought on by Detroit Corporation Counsel Krystal Crittendon was dropped. Efforts to keep Detroit from having a financial advisory board oversee the city’s finances were put to end with a court ruling.
So, should Crittendon have taken this stance?
