News Manuel ‘Matty’ Moroun, controversial bridge owner and trucking magnate, dies at 93 July 13, 2020 John Gallagher, Special to the Detroit Free Press Comments Off on Manuel ‘Matty’ Moroun, controversial bridge owner and trucking magnate, dies at 93 Manuel 'Matty' Moroun was a Detroit native who took his father's small cartage business and built it into a trucking and real estate empire.