Manager Orr testifies in Detroit bankruptcy trial

DETROIT (AP) — Emergency manager Kevyn Orr testified in bankruptcy court Wednesday that when he took over Detroit’s finances, he found a city with poor services for residents, next to no cash flow and significant neighborhood blight.

Orr, who was hired by the state in March 2013 to fix Detroit’s finances and who took the city into the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history, was called to the stand and questioned by a city lawyer in federal court in Detroit.