Manuel Moroun

Manuel "Matty" Moroun (June 5, 1927 – July 12, 2020) was an American billionaire businessman, most notable as the owner of the Ambassador Bridge international crossing connecting Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario.

[2][3] The bridge, which Moroun purchased from the Bower family in 1979, is one of the few privately owned border crossings between the United States and Canada.

During college, Matty regularly commuted between the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, and Detroit, to help run the family business.

In February 2010, Wayne County Circuit Judge Prentis Edwards ruled that Moroun and the chief deputy of the Detroit International Bridge Co., Dan Stamper, were in violation of the contract, and ordered them to come into compliance.

[19] Critics suggested that Moroun's opposition was fueled by the prospect of lost profits from duty-free gasoline sales at the bridge.

[20] Ed Arditti, of the online news site Windsor Square, suggested the appointment of Mark R. McQueen to the new Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority was intended to anger the Moroun family.

[23][24] On June 11, 2018, Matthew Mourun confirmed the transfer of possession and sale of the station and the warehouse to the Ford Motor Company.

[29] They alleged that he had “cheated them out of their inheritance” following their father's death that same year,[12] in addition to engaging in shareholder oppression, and excluding them from the business.