A former supervisor in the Dearborn Building and Safety Department who pled guilty to two counts of fraud and resigned from his city job is scheduled to have a sentencing hearing on April 26 on the misdemeanor charges.

Andrew Pizzino

Andrew Pizzino pleaded guilty to the fraud charges last week.  He also was charged with two counts of ethics violations of the City of Dearborn Charter but those charges were dropped. Pizzino, who resigned from his job last week, will still collect his city pension as he was employed longer than 10 years, a spokeswoman for the city says.

Pizzino was one of four former Building and Safety department employees to face criminal charges, the result of a more than two-year police and FBI investigation of the department initiated by Dearborn Mayor John B. O’Reilly, Jr.

Dearborn has since closed its investigation into the Building and Safety department. For earlier stories, click HERE

The Dearborn Historical Museum is hosting a free public lecture at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 7 on Detroit’s Holy Cross Cemetery.

The lecture takes place at the McFadden-Ross House, 915 Brady Street.

Author Elaine Walters Raymo uses her professional genealogical, historical research and family experience to create a snapshot of the remarkable individuals whose final resting place is in Detroit’s Holy Cross Cemetery.

Immigrants from several nationalities have laid their loved ones to rest there since 1838, when the footprint was only a two-acre plot. The cemetery has since grown to 65 acres.

For more information, call 313-565-3000.