Asmar v. United States, Department of Treasury, Internal Revenue Service

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT’S MOTION TO DISMISS

WOODS, District Judge.

During the summer of 1986, the Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News published articles indicating that Harold D. Murdock, member of the Detroit Board of Education, received bribery payments in 1984 from Metro Institutional Food Service, Inc. (Metro) in exchange for the award of a milk contract with the Detroit School System. The purported basis of these stories was a series of telephone conversations recorded without the authorization or knowledge of the participants. Steve Asmar, president of Metro,…