DETROIT, MI (WTVB) – Former Michigan Senator Carl Levin has died at the age of 87. His 36 years in the U.S. Senate made him Michigan’s longest serving U.S. Senator before he retired in 2015. He twice served as the chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
There was a Coldwater tie to Levin’s time in the U.S. Senate which drew national media attention about a decade ago.
Ahlam Mohsen who lived in Coldwater at the time was one of two political activists who hit Levin with a pie at a Big Rapids Deli in August of 2010.
The Senator was holding a meet and greet when Ferris State student Max Kantar stood up and made a statement which accused Levin of war crimes. As Kantar spoke, Mohsen delivered a pie to the Senator’s face. The pair had previously been arrested for trespassing at Levin’s office in Lansing during another protest over sanctions against Iraq.
Both entered guilty pleas to misdemeanor assault charges and were given a month sentence in federal prison. Levin was not hurt and even joked about the incident with reporters afterwards.
(John McNeill contributed to this report)
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