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Manuel ‘Matty’ Moroun, Detroit’s billionaire ‘Mr. Burns,’ is dead at 93

Controversial billionaire Manuel “Matty” Moroun has died, Crain’s reports. He was 93. Moroun made his fortune, which Forbes estimated to be $1.7 billion, in the trucking industry, making him of the top 400 wealthiest Americans. But in Detroit, he was best known as the owner of two blighted structures: the crumbling Ambassador Bridge that connects […]

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