With millions of those votes cast in the weeks before Election Day, it entirely changed the face of the campaign, and Avery wonders whetherit won't change things for good. I was quite surprised when, almostimmediately I heard back from her Communications Director Kelly Rossman-McKinney asking if my team and I would be willing to meet with a long list of Nessel staff members in order to overview our findings. Chapter 2: The Obituary. I felt like Adlai Stevenson staring down Ambassador Zorin. He fought back and ended up with a reprimand. The destruction of his court records means that there is no longer any public documentation of the criminal investigation against him, excluding media reports and a brief summary in the courts online database. Ayers and Benson have not been charged with any crimes, however their homes have been raided in connection with this broad FBI investigation, according to news reports. That played out in other areas all over the state. The early numbers from the Secretary of State's Office indicate that was down in this election to about 45,000, far closer to normal. Far from it, at Listening Tours, she told the audience that if she found a public administrator was up to no good, she would have no compunction in firing that person.Of course not. Getting those voters to voice their support in public opinion polls isn't easy. I did so immediately with no response. The Sheriff's Office continues to be active in communities throughout Oakland County by offering several programs to assist those in need. Would dismantling Interstate 980 repair damage to Black neighborhoods? This year, Biden won 60%-40% and there were 1,500 voters. However, when I saw that the list of attendees included State Public Administrator Michael Moody, I pushed back and alerted Rossman-McKinney that he was a focus of the investigation. Harriette Cole: I don't want the neighbor's kids at my house, Dear Abby: My wife said she doesn't like it, but it's part of my life, Ask Amy: I feel guilty for not speaking up about my co-worker's activities, Ask Amy: I'm your cabin housekeeper, and you apparently have no idea what I do. If you valued this article, please help us produce more journalism like this by making a contribution today. Enthusiasm was clearly up, too. The Oakland city attorneys office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. After she was fired, Kirkpatrick told this news organization that she believed she was terminated as a result of retaliation for refusing a police commissioners request to be reimbursed for towing fees. And his percentage of the overall vote actually declined slightly. For Shaw, that is 206 cases involving 256 defendants since February 2009, according to district attorney records obtained by The Times. In January 2005, Valerga was charged with two counts of violating the civil rights of his victims, and two counts of false imprisonment. Chuck Rizzo whose rags-to-riches story of becoming a millionaire businessman in the trash industry only to lose most everything readily admits his guilt in a public corruption scheme. An outspoken, genuine sort of bloke, he pushed back on the notion that nothing had been done about alleged probate corruption. In Oakland County, the state's second largest county, turnout was nearly75%, higher than the 72% seen in 2008; in Detroit which is getting smaller and the rest of Wayne County, turnout was 62%, just under that seen in the 2008 election. "We're committing Oakland County - our employees, our resources, our programs and services, to making a real and measurable impact in the areas that matter most, All ways, moving forward." County Executive, David Coulter. Oakland County Courts are known for their corruption and their extortion. One attorney who did described sanctions and threats of Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission complaints from both the PAs and the judges. I do hope hes got his Geiger Counter on standby. Staff writer David DeBolt contributed to this report. by Nicole Audrey Spector Sure, the president of the United States wields immense power, as does the average member of the Senate and House of Representative, but when it comes to unchecked lawlessness, abuse of authority and corruption, they've got nothing over the county sheriff. And that accrued to Biden's benefit in, for instance, northern Michigan and the Upper Peninsula, where Trump's level of supportfrom four years ago wasvirtually unchanged at 58.6%. Feds file obstruction case against ex-W. Bloomfield schools official . Anyone with information about public corruption anywhere in Michigan should report it directly to FBI Detroit special agents and analysts at MichiganCorruption@fbi.gov. Under the guardianship of Macomb County Public Administrator Robert Kirk and his wife Cathy, they were literally fenced inside their own home. Many of the judges are in cahoots with the Friend of the Court workers. Moody, you know about. The U.S. Supreme Court has explained that, any favorable evidence known to others acting on the governments behalf in the case, including the police., Not all branches of Californias courts are as aggressive as Alameda County in destroying police corruption files. Kirkpatrick was also recently criticized in her handling of the police fatal shooting of a homeless man, Joshua Pawlik, who was found armed and sleeping in 2018. At the time, the chief told the lead investigator she was concerned about retaliation, according to the document. How come I didnt know? James Rullamas, who helped investigate Valergas sexual misconduct, said in a 2007 court deposition that the former officer received lenient treatment from the legal system. Dear Abby: Why do they imply my husband is a freak? While Republican businessman John James lost the race statewide to U.S. Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., 49.8%-48.3%, he ran ahead of Trump in some areas. With no comment at all, Teter left around 4 pm, just before the families were going to tell him each of their stories. Along with my team, I invited three family members of Oakland County wards to send one representative each. According to news reports from the Detroit Free Press and Detroit News, at least three members of the Detroit Police Department are suspected of accepting bribes from towing industry figures; no charges have been filed so these unnamed individuals were also not included in the regional public figure count. (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication. There are lessons within it, for me most of all, but I hope also for those journalists who choose to stay on the ship, maybe of what not to do, even as the last few chords of Nearer My God to Thee play out in New York and Washington DC. The afternoon was led by Assistant Attorney General Scott Teter. That held true in my February 16, 2019 email asking for a face-to-face with Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel. Detroitography.com Miss Manners: I shouldn't call because the phone scares people? Mar 02, 2022. Many of the cases are related the Rizzo Environmental Services federal case that entangled elected officials, public employees and business figures who owned the business and worked with it. And there are any number of places where such a change can be demonstrated, across metro Detroit. Four years ago, he rode a level of support in rural and older industrial areas, especially those with large swaths of white voters, unlike that seen since Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, decrying trade deals and blustering that he'd force Mexico to pay for a wall along the southern border. Why are you working with them?. Two suicides. It spoke generally to the strength Democrats showed in growing suburbs as well as in areas where retirees from southeastern Michigan are moving into Up North. The chief of staffs for Ayers and Benson are also included in this investigation but have not been charged. If your case does not appear in the MiFIle efiling system please email efiling@oakgov.com to have it added. Pressures to Raise Wages in Michigan Continue, Michigans Substance Use Vulnerability Index Highlights Wayne County as one of States Most Vulnerable, Rate of Alcohol-Induced Deaths Increasing in Southeast Michigan; White Males Have Highest Rates, Metro-Detroit Economic Indicators: Home Prices Dropping, Personal Debt Increasing, Climate Change in MichiganNow and in the Future. For instance, look at East Bay Township Precinct 1 in Grand Traverse County. About This Work. The power of the Purple Gang, the. A high level review of elder care issues?. After the city rejects a claim, a lawsuit can be filed. Throughout the trials, the Oakland Police Departments internal culture was examined in detail, as were political decisions by city leaders to undertake a zero tolerance crackdown on drug dealers, which community activistsand even the Oakland police unionblamed for stoking violence by street cops. As if I didnt already know, he reminded me that public administrators who took roles as guardians and conservators were acting outside of their job descriptions and as private attorneys. Nov. 2, 2000. From the outset, Nessel ran with the often used talking point that the majority of the abuse of Americas seniors occurs at the hands of family members or friends. SAN FRANCISCO Three Bay Area men, including a justice activist who billed himself as a youth mentor just 11 days after . All of them were actively quashed from the public. In doing so, he swampedTrump's advantage in rural and olderindustrial areas with massive turnout, especially in Oakland and Wayne counties, which alone gave him more than 158,000 more votes than Clinton won in them. The pair and other officers brutalized and planted drugs on suspects and filed false police reports resulting in wrongful convictions. But it was 56%-45%. With Detroit having turnout not seen in 20 years and turnout upsignificantly in both Oaklandand Wayne counties relative to 2016, Biden's margins in those counties he won in Oakland 56%-42%, compared with Clinton's 52%-34% and in Wayne 68%-31% to Clinton's 67%-29% more than made up the difference. As corruption charges continue to surface in Detroit, public information from the FBI, news sources and local court documents shows that there have been at least 15 public corruption cases involving Detroit councilmembers or Detroit staffers; this number does not include contractors or business figures who have been involved in these corruption cases. "It's back to more typical levels this year.". Exposing how the U.S. criminal legal system fails to keep people safe and perpetuates harm. Leland admitted to accepting the cash when he pled guilty. Hundreds did and the majority of the time, their stories focused on Michigans probate courts. It would, therefore, not serve our goals for publication at all to provide you with the requested documents at this time, I concluded. For months, the president had been saying you can't trust absentee, mail-in ballots so his base was not using it. After all, the families had already agreed to go on the record with their stories. When police searched Richholt and Neelys rental car, they found potential evidence of other crimes, including cash, zip-top plastic bags of cocaine, heroin, and marijuana, and firearms. At least two other cases identified by The Appealone involving officers Eric Richholt and Mark Neely Jr., the other involving Richard Valergahave also been destroyed. The 2020 election isn't a story about corruption. You can't wait until the last week. On the other hand, what happened this year with the Detroit Free Presstook the prize andwas a gut-punch to what had been my rose-tinted view of the profession. While the rest of the country engages in hand-wringing over the treatment of undocumented immigrants not one civil rights group has raised a finger in protest about the rights that have been stripped from innocent, American citizens. Biden won in Genesee, Ingham, Kalamazoo, Kent, Leelanau, Marquette, Muskegon, Oakland, Saginaw, Washtenaw and Wayne counties. Daily Kos readers dont tend towards the troll, yet never couch brutal honesty in niceties. On August 23, 2019, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced that she hadfired three Oakland County Public Administrators, John Yun, Jennifer Carney and Thomas Brennan Fraser and one Macomb County Public Administrator Robert Kirk. And while Trump won Macomb, his margin, 53%-45%, was well below the 54%-42% Trump beat Clinton by there four years ago. The sentencing was supposed to have been held Tuesday. But, I keptthe name of the Free Press out of requests for interviews. "We know that a lot of that was baked in. In fact, while Biden lost west Michigan as a region overall, he still was able to improve his percentage of support relative to Clinton's by 5 percentage points again, much of that coming from third party support from four years ago and get 119,000 more votes out of the region. It would be a long shot. Therefore, I cannot let this particular whole truth just vanish. For instance, the 2020 election showed its share of vote-splitters. Sometimes, after a salacious bit of information is published, all the OpEd scribes line up to give their two penneth. This year, Trump won 52%-48%.He got 552 votes to Biden's 509. On August 23, 2019, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced that she had fired three Oakland County Public Administrators, John Yun, Jennifer Carney and Thomas Brennan Fraser and one. donate today. Delphine Allen et al. Because it isnt worth it., I dont imagine any appeals to your conscience or journalist integrity are worth it, I added. However, he was never formally investigated by its internal affairs division, nor did the department track down and interview all of his victims, according to depositions taken during the civil rights suit. And legal experts say that destroying records of police misconduct, even if authorized by state statute, may conflict with the constitutional rights of defendants. She filed a claim against the city in May, the first step to filing a lawsuit. In Los Angeles County, the superior courts criminal division retained files for several former officers who were charged in the Rampart scandal, where anti-gang officers in a downtown precinct were accused of unprovoked shootings and beatings of suspects, as well as planting evidence and stealing drugs then turning around and selling them on the street. OAKLAND Former Oakland Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick filed a federal whistleblower lawsuit against the city on Wednesday, alleging she was fired in retaliation for exposing corruption and abuse of power in the police commission. Edward Ortiz, Officer Paul Harper, Sgt. The Friend of the Court workers are not accurate in their reporting of the facts and they are defrauding children and their parents of justice. Turnout topped 5.5 million votes, beating the record of 5 million in 2008, and that, in turn, was driven by an avalanche of absentee votes, which were believed to top 3.3 million. Yet, for the months which followed, Nessel refused to say the words public administrator and investigation in the same sentence. The paper that would never bow to a public official. I was fundamentally clear to him that, if Lucido was right about his dates, it was vital that I attend. We left at 5 pm with no comment but quite a lot of answers. Required fields are marked *. In my national background research, I spoke to families in Washington and Oklahoma who said that reporters who had been committed to investigating guardianship issues, in those states, were suddenly told by their editors to stop. Meanwhile, a small contingent of family members set out for Lansing to stand outside her offices and plead their case to any passing journalists. The fileswhich consisted of thousands of pages of hearing transcripts, motions, and evidencewere the best public record of the longest criminal trial in Alameda County history. . This statute is written as a set of instructions and authorizations to a branch of government and doesnt necessarily take into account the rights of defendants or victims, Weisberg, the Stanford law professor, told The Appeal. On the morning of March 21, I interviewed Senator Pete Lucido (R). B ) During the meeting, allow the AGs staff to review, but not keep, the documents. Hes part of a case there right now. Peter Wielhouwer, associate professor of political science and director of the Institute for Government and Politics at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, said the fact of early voting blunted Trump's aggressive campaigning in the last few weeks in Michigan. And, given the hands-off approach of Michigan officials (with the exception of Wayne County, MI) and the Detroit bureau of the FBI, there's a very good chance we will never fully understand the lengths public officials and police went to in Oakland County, Michigan, to put economics and reputation ahead of child welfare. The Riders case is significant for police accountability in Oakland. OAKLAND Former Oakland Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick filed a federal whistleblower lawsuit against the city on Wednesday, alleging she was fired in retaliation for exposing corruption and. At that point, I was struggling to keep a grip on my own temper. But it was clear that Democratic voters, especially, heeded the call to vote absentee. 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And while we don't know precisely what that percentage was yet across the state, Kiska's key precincts give a decent idea. In order to make her point, only one member of the public was invited to attend. Those officers have since been fired. Ali Winston, An Oakland County man faces two years in prison after he admitted in federal court Tuesday that he was part of a scheme involving trash-hauler Chuck Rizzo Jr. to steal hundreds of thousands of doll There were moments when, for example, I tried to raise the subject of Moody and Teter immediately shut me down. Trump, despite ending his campaign in Grand Rapids and making west Michigan a focus of his campaign, raised less than 75,000 new votes. Katie Jane Fernelius "My inclination was that the blue wall states were going to do what they normally do and vote Democrat.". In addition, outside law enforcement . Instead, the county-by-county breakdowns which may change slightly as officials finalize tabulations but are unlikely to vary by much tell usa lot about trends that have been underway in the state for some time, including where certain areas appear to be trending more toward Democrats and others toward Republicans; it also tells us about how willing voters may be to split their tickets, despite what are often viewed as intransigent partisan leanings on the parts of voters. But Biden was able to show some surprising levels of support in Republican areas relative to Trump. The book exposes the history of police brutality on Oakland, but it is a familiar and perhaps even universal story people can bear witness to in countless communities that stretch around the world. Friend of the Court - 248-466-2728. This year, despite trailing in many independent public opinion polls such asthe Free Press' by around 7 points, he brought it closer to 2 by outgaining Biden in areas like St. Clair County, where he added more than 10,000 votes, and Monroe, where he added 9,400. Most recently, investigations involve Detroit City Councilmembers Andre Spivey, Janee Ayers and Scott Benson. In Macomb County, the recent names making headlines for alleged public corruption are former Macomb County Prosecuting Attorney Eric Smith, former Macomb County Chief Assistant Prosecutor Ben Liston and suspended Macomb County Assistant Prosecutor Derek Miller. Apr 20, 2022, M. Forrest Behne, Craig Waleed, Meghan Peterson, and Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein Darwin BondGraham However, on Dec. 22, 2000, Judge Jaqueline Connor. Last week, Andre Spivey pled guilty to federal bribery charges and admitted he and an aide received almost $36,000 in bribes. That morning, Nevin told a reporter who did get up the gumption to ask about the probate courts, "we have no specific instances of wrongdoing.". I felt more disappointment than surprise when one of the principle topics of Nessel's presser was guardianship in Michigan's probate courts; the focal point of my investigation. The prominent law firm alsorepresents the city of Oakland, Alameda County and the Coliseum Authority, most notably in the ongoing legal battle against the Golden State Warriors over a roughly $40 million debt the authority says the team owes. The pollsters were all wrong," saidSusy Heintz Avery, a former Michigan Republican Party chairwoman and co-director of the Michigan Political Leadership Program at Michigan State University. What I am about to relate is not an attempt to shame my fellow reporters, nor is it sour grapes as I was able to to find a form of resolution in that the story got told. Seven points (the margin between the two candidates in the poll) is not representative of the gap (in the election). With the help of Democrat activist and State Court Administrator Milton Mack, Jr., she decided to stick around the Macomb County bench, if only when she felt like it. I couldnt vote for her but, damn, was I ever inspired that a fellow member of the LGBT community had so passionately reached to rarely attained heights. in Oakland County at their at the Red Fox in I think it was Bloomfield. , where anti-gang officers in a downtown precinct were accused of unprovoked shootings and beatings of suspects, as well as planting evidence and stealing drugs then turning around and selling them on the street. The families got the same response from Oakland County Prosecutor Jessica Cooper, the Michigan Attorney Grievance and Judicial Tenure Commissions, state and local police and the Detroit office of the FBI. Much of his bluster was false rhetoric. Trump couldn't afford it, having beaten Clinton four years ago by just 10,704 votes, or about two-tenths of 1% of the vote. But he kept it up, and it worked to a great degree. Site content may be used for any purpose without explicit permission unless otherwise specified. Richholt did not respond to a request for comment. In winning Michigan, data from the Secretary of State's Office indicatedBiden, nowthe president-elect,added nearly 522,000 votes to those won by Hillary Clinton in the state in 2016. Ex-Macomb County official Anthony Marrocco's sentencing on corruption charges has been delayed again, according to court records. As for the morning being a "high level review of elder care issues," either Rossman-McKinney lied to my editor or he lied to me. In 1945, Michigan was racked with corruption. After speaking with AG [sic] office they assure me the task force has nothing to do with Oakland County issues, he wrote. Tipline: 1-888-TURN-1-IN or 1-800-773-2587. My opinion was, and still is, is that Valerga should have gone to prison, Rullamas said during the deposition. What should have been a problem, what is a problem is the fact that Oakland County Chief Judge Kathleen Ryans brother James Ryan Jr.'s company Public Affairs Associates (PAA) has longstanding ties to Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer and was among thetop donorsfor her inauguration committee. Throughout the day, I tried to call the AGs office and was repeatedly told that the entire communications team was In a meeting.. Additional Emergency Contact Numbers: PPO - 248-303-1534. Originally, the oversight was to last five years, but the police department has been slow to achieve reforms. In Wayne County (excluding Detroit), since 2016, there have been four public corruption charges. The Istanbul Center hosted a discussion Jan. 19 with Ali Winston, one of the authors of The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and . Posted in: Uncategorized The Kirks were donors to Macomb County Probate Judge Kathryn Georges re-election campaign. The allegations include that they frequently abused and harassed Oakland police staff, interfered in day-to-day operations and sought unlawful access to confidential documents. In the early 2000s, several women accused Oakland patrol officer Richard Valerga of holding them against their will in his squad car while he harassed and molested them. The three officers, who patrolled West Oakland together on the graveyard shift in 2000, were accused of violating the civil rights of innocent suspects by illegally detaining them, planting drugs. It was even apparent looking at the statewide vote for university trustees, which have often been seen as a barometer for partisanship since voters don't give them nearly as much attention as the top of the ticket and may merely have followed their party inclination. 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