This year, Biden won 60%-40% and there were 1,500 voters. Mohammed Nuru, director of San Francisco Public Works, center, gestures as he leaves a federal . By the morning of Friday March 22, I was getting nervous. The Kirks were donors to Macomb County Probate Judge Kathryn Georges re-election campaign. The Alameda County Superior Court destroyed Valergas entire case file sometime after his probation ended. I emailed my editor again with no response. Well let me say something to you, we do have the evidence.. Nov. 2, 2000. Pay-to-play was all too common in state politics, then-Free Press associate editor Ron Dzwonkowski wrote in 2010. Or one of the cases that had the DPOA that was ignored to see if we could file a motion to terminate. Ali Winston, They wanted his license. As part of his plea deal, Perez turned states evidence and accused dozens of other LAPD officers of misconduct. Since Ayers, Benson and their chief of staffs have not been charged with any crimes they were not included in the total number of regional corruption cases since 2016. Third parties. If your case does not appear in the MiFIle efiling system please email efiling@oakgov.com to have it added. 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. Prior to the Task Force presser, Nessel moved to dismiss Gellers lawsuit while I repeatedly emailed my teams findings to Michigan Supreme Court Director of Communications John Nevin with no response. So, it didnt pass anyones notice that, despite the simplicity of the job, the Attorney General couldnt even bring herself to say the word fired., Instead, after careful internal deliberation, she decided relieve these public administrators of their appointments.. Just what in the blue fuck was that supposed to mean? Originally, the oversight was to last five years, but the police department has been slow to achieve reforms. As much as anything, however, the 2020 election in Michigan may have been a simple reversion to the mean, an indication that, even with changing voting patterns within the state, Michigan's overall political nature hasn't changed that much after all. Darwin BondGraham At the state level, Smith has been charged with five counts of embezzlement by a public official, one count conducting a federal enterprise, official misconduct in office, tampering with evidence in a civil proceeding, accessory after the fact to embezzlement by a public official and one count conspiracy to commit forgery, according to the Michigan Attorney Generals Office. At least, not in my rose-tinted world. Corruption cases have long riddled the Metro-Detroit region and in an upcoming post we will detail the ones that have been brought to the public eye since 2016. 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. So, I continued my work with the security that its results, pending rigorous fact-checking, had a home. In Wayne County's Canton Precinct 2, for instance, the in-person vote broke 58%-42% for Biden, up from the52%-43% Clinton had in 2016. This year, 1,311 voters cast ballots, andit was Trump 49.4% to 49.1% for Biden. Whether I received my answers from Nessel in the form of an official comment or not, the AG herself had ordered the meeting. Behind the scenes of the Michigan Elder Abuse Task Force, Nessels firings of four Public Administrators on Friday, the Detroit not so Free Press, Listening Tours, Kojak, Strip Searches and corruption at the highest levels. Journalists are theoretically also supposed to deal in whole truths. What may be the most remarkable part of Biden's victory in Michigan, however, is the way in which the entire process unfolded amid the coronavirus pandemic. "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. Monitor the livestream broadcast if youre worried about integrity of the process, but this isnt worth the back and forth with AGs office.. Those officers have since been fired. The 2020 election isn't a story about corruption. So they didn't vote for her. Teter had certainly not brought it up either at our meeting or any time afterwards. Introduction. For instance, it dropped by 8 percentage points in Emmet County, 9 in Ottawa in west Michigan, nearly 10 in Grand Traverse. 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. Biden, the former vice presidentwho won Michigan 50.6%-47.9%, won the presidency Saturday morning after the Associated Press called the race in Pennsylvania, giving him 284 Electoral College votes, with 270needed to win the presidency, and delivering him a state that, like Michigan and Wisconsin, were key to Trump's victory in 2016 and played a vital role in defeating him this year. Still, I kept the faith. I called some old friends still in the business in Chicago and they agreed to vouch for me if necessary. You shared the chart of the home sales information with me and it included one sale that was over $100,000 below the market value. The Appeal was unable to contact Neely. I shared the information with the AG and she would like us to get involved more deeply in a couple of cases immediately, he wrote. Most recently, investigations involve Detroit City Councilmembers Andre Spivey, Janee Ayers and Scott Benson. In 2005, Hornung was acquitted after his second trial in which some of the charges against him were dropped. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court of Northern California, alleges that the Oakland police commissioners routinely abused their power, and corruptly looked for special treatment by the police department. 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. The Attorney General has created an Elder Abuse Task Force, he told me. I checked with my editor at the Free Press who gave an enthusiastic green light. In order to make her point, only one member of the public was invited to attend. In the 1960s, Oakland became the birthplace of the Black Panther movement after growing police harassment and brutality, and in 1968, anger at OPD boiled over when cops killed a 17-year-old member. What is fundamentally clear is that neither the Free Press nor Nessel wanted me there asking anything specific. While I was still working Oakland County, Catallo was doing sterling work in neighboring Macomb. Since 2016 there have been 10 public officials from Macomb County, either the County organization itself or a municipality within its boundaries, who have been charged with alleged public corruption crimes. My concerns about a possible catch and kill situation didnt come out of nowhere. We have concerns that the First Amendment right of access to court records may be violated by a statute providing for so short a period before records are destroyed, Kinzinger, whose firm serves as general counsel for the First Amendment Coalition, wrote in an email. , 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. Ninety minutes later, I published a five-part, freelance series detailing an alleged massive abuse and exploitation ring operating out of a Detroit-area probate court. I was already looking into Macks background when Catallo broke Bob and Barbs story. Juvenile (delinquency/abuse neglect) - 248-766-7533. And in Grand Traverse, Trump went from winning by 13 points four years ago to beating Biden by just 3. That played out in other areas all over the state. Lucido seemed equally surprised because, he said, there was supposed to be a press conference about it on March 25. Four take plea deals in wild Brentwood homicide where victim, suspects shot each other, Feds charge two with robbing two San Francisco banks during the same day, One dead, another wounded in Oakland shooting, Prosecution wraps case in Alex Murdaugh murder trial. Political parties have to realign their messaging," she said. Because it isnt worth it., I dont imagine any appeals to your conscience or journalist integrity are worth it, I added. Kos Media, LLC. We have it and it is clear and incontrovertible.". Would dismantling Interstate 980 repair damage to Black neighborhoods? Chapter 3: Law and Order - LBP. The Oakland Police Commission, made up of seven appointed residents, was created to oversee the police departments policies and practices, and the Community Police Review Agency, which investigates police misconduct.. In 2016, more than 75,000 people in the state cast ballots but didn't vote for any presidential candidate. 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%. 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. The Free Press: Thats what it says on the cereal box. Smiths felony charges from the Michigan Attorney Generals Office are all in relation to alleged misuse of forfeiture funds. Corruption cases have long riddled the Metro-Detroit region and in an upcoming post we will detail the ones that have been brought to the public eye since 2016. 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. Meanwhile, a small contingent of family members set out for Lansing to stand outside her offices and plead their case to any passing journalists. Still, as Rossman-McKinneys stock climbed ever higher, the Elder Abuse Task Force set out to boldly go where two other Task Forces had never gone before. Chapter 2: The Obituary. "It's a huge reason we got the vote that we did, when you're talking about the numbers of third party votes we had in '16," Dulio said. In May, 2019, she paid a visit to an elderly couple, Bob and Barb. She previously covered the Tri-Valley cities of Pleasanton, Dublin, Livermore and Danville. If you want to know exactly what Yun, Carney, and Fraser did to earn their brief,moment in the sun Friday, then you are quite welcome to click the links below: These stories goto the heart of both Gretchen Whitmer and Dana Nessels 2018 campaigns for Michigan Governor and Attorney General. Kirkpatrick alleges in the suit that she was fired in February for standing up to the misconduct and reporting it. Additional Emergency Contact Numbers: PPO - 248-303-1534. However, they never faced criminal charges. We had supplied Teter and his people with multiple cases demonstrating pattern and practice. Dear Abby: Why do they imply my husband is a freak? Mack was a Wayne County Probate Court Chief Judge when, again, two attorneys operating out of his court, John Chase, Jr. and Melvin Jefferson Jr, allegedly worked with Wayne County Judge Freddie Burton, Jr. to pilfer the estate of no less than Rosa Parks. But as Biden was winning a close race at the top of the ticket, Republicans won a trustee seatat Michigan State University and a Board of Governor's seat at Wayne State University (the latter going for former Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land). Driving Biden's success wasn't only the fact that he did better percentage-wise than Clinton did in 2016 across metro Detroit, however. Get Morning Report and other email newsletters. The press conference was Monday morning. "That's not happening any more. The journalists in attendance were, justifiably, appalled and, in the end, Burgio ended up getting far more ink than Nessel. Destroying files relating to police misconduct may damage the publics knowledge of police corruption, LaDoris Cordell, a retired Santa Clara County judge and former independent police auditor for San Jose, told The Appeal. Hundreds did and the majority of the time, their stories focused on Michigans probate courts. The Oakland city attorneys office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. His margin of support among white men without college degrees was even higher, 64%-34%. Oakland County Prosecutor Jessica Cooper: "The Senator does not appreciate your constant attacks on the Attorney General." Michigan Sen. Peter Lucido: I can't help you. Clinton won the Democratic-leaning region 55.8%-39.9% for Trump four years ago. True to form, it was a downright bizarre four hours during which our summary of findings was received with moments which ran the gamut between receptive and defensive. If you prefer to do so anonymously, you can call the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI or submit tips online at tips.fbi.gov. One of the firearms found in the car was a shotgun that Neely and Richholt allegedly seized from an East Oakland mans house earlier in the day in a warrantless search. I did so immediately with no response. When Catallo was shooting the story, the Kirks attorney, Sterling Heights Mayor and rabid Democrat Michael Taylor showed up to do a bit of schilling for his clients. . Sgt. OAKLAND COUNTY. It would be a long shot. That held true in my February 16, 2019 email asking for a face-to-face with Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel. In Oakland County, in Novi Precinct 21, Clinton eked out a 49.8%-46.9% among the 1,157 votes. I immediately pulled the project from the Free Press and scrambled to find a self-publish website while continuing to gather research. 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. Even after I received their 2018 Letter of Intent to publish my investigation into the Oakland County Probate Court, I was cautious. For instance, look at East Bay Township Precinct 1 in Grand Traverse County. It probably explains why they joined the Michigan Guardianship Association and a host of like-minded pro-guardianship organizations and the omnipresent Probate Judges Association as Task Force members. The agency that oversees the Oakland Coliseum voted Friday to rescind its a multimillion-dollar naming-rights contract amid a conflict-of-interest scandal, but agency officials said they expect . To help, we passed around photographs that we had taken during our visits to them. 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. With over 300,000 apartments destroyed in Turkey, fingers are already being pointed at below-par building codes and corruption in construction quality and enforcement. In Brighton's Precinct 4, at the Brighton Education Community Center on Church Street, Trump won 55%-40% four years ago, getting 507 votes to Clinton's 370. One of the firearms found in the car was a shotgun that Neely and Richholt allegedly seized from an East Oakland mans house earlier in the day in a warrantless search. Charges were filed by the Los Angeles District Attorney against Sgt. themselves as FBI agents during the incident. For instance, the vote inblue-collar Macomb County, north of Detroit,has predicted the statewide winner for governor or president in the last sevenelections and 17 of the last 20. 28 police officers with allegations involving a prostitute. As a result, the full extent of Valergas conduct remains unknown. Angela Ruggiero covers criminal justice and the Alameda County Superior Court. Gretchen Whitmer two years ago). As for Smith, he pled guilty to a federal obstruction of justice charge for covering up theft from his campaign fund. 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. Delphine Allen et al. 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. But he won three more counties than Clinton did and did better in those he didn't win than Clinton did in a state known to be more Democratic-leaning than Republican in presidential elections. Along with my team, I invited three family members of Oakland County wards to send one representative each. Under the guardianship of Macomb County Public Administrator Robert Kirk and his wife Cathy, they were literally fenced inside their own home. My opinion was, and still is, is that Valerga should have gone to prison, Rullamas said during the deposition. Probate Corruption + the Michigan Attorney General + the Detroit Free Press = ? A public administrator was clearly just a title with no more consequences of its removal than telling the Duke of Edinburgh that he could no longer be a duke. Nothing that was goingto happen in the last couple of weeks was going to change those votes.". The Oakland Police Department was placed under federal court oversight in 2003 following revelations that a squad of officers had spent the summer of 2000 running rampant in a predominantly Black. In fact, the entire day went by with radio silence from both the Free Press and Rossman-McKinney. 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. A complete list of individual units is below. The many decades of deceit, public corruption, evidence contamination, and including the lack of following up on anything. That's only part of the story to Biden winning Michigan: Even as Trump was adding to his vote totals in every county of the state but one Dickinson, in the Upper Peninsula, where Secretary of State records show he lost 111 votes his margin of victory in several counties long considered friendly to Republicans fell. 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. These charges have surfaced over the last year or so, and have only driven the total number of public corruption cases that can be accounted for in the last four years. Investigative and Forensic Services Division - Captain Joseph Quisenberry: 248-858-5087. Data were assembled from public records filed with the financial and police departments in each city or county and excluded payments less than $1,000. I replied that I had shared our findings with the Detroit Area Anti-Corruption Task Force. I was both an idealist and a born leftist in every sense of the definition. Some voters are unwilling to admit they are voting for him. Please take a moment to explore these programs below. Valergas conduct was so egregious that investigators in his own department thought he should be punished to the full extent of the law. 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. I do hope hes got his Geiger Counter on standby. Getting those voters to voice their support in public opinion polls isn't easy. Mar 02, 2022. And one. The series covers the 1995 abduction of 6-year-old Morgan Nick from a little league game in Alma, Arkansas, as well as the resolution of the 1989 abduction and murder of 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling in St. Joseph, Minnesota. Anyone with information about public corruption anywhere in Michigan should report it directly to FBI Detroit special agents and analysts at MichiganCorruption@fbi.gov. While he pled guilting to this federal corruption charge in January of 2021, he has yet to be sentenced, in part because of his ongoing public corruption case with the State Attorney Generals Office. The afternoon was led by Assistant Attorney General Scott Teter. . For Coblentz, that is 296 cases involving 345 defendants . In addition, outside law enforcement . ), I felt like Adlai Stevenson staring down Ambassador Zorin. He is a man to whom I will be indebted for the rest of my life. Katie Jane Fernelius Two suicides. Here's a look at how the state split the vote of 2020 and how Biden was able to beat Trump and put Michigan back into the Democrats' "blue wall" of states: A few weeks ago, the Free Press took a deep dive into the state's regions, their voting trends and their importance in electing statewide candidates. However, some legal experts, including Cordell and Stanford University law professor Robert Weisberg, believe that records of police prosecutions should be maintained longer because they also constitute official histories of institutional corruption. The case led to a parallel civil rights lawsuit brought by 119 victims of police misconduct that ended in 2003 with the Oakland police being placed under a federal consent decree. The difference? Gretchen Rachel Hammond is an award-winning freelance investigative journalist based out of Chicago. Miss Manners: I shouldn't call because the phone scares people? March 1, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. "we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty.". For instance, the 2020 election showed its share of vote-splitters. By then, Teter was already in a meeting with Nessel deciding what to do next. Nessel claimed that the Task Force was working in concert with the Supreme Court Justices. On the morning of March 21, I interviewed Senator Pete Lucido (R). Either way, guardianship is a life sentence which hardly anyone in this country knows or about which anyone has cared to educate themselves. 2000-11-02 04:00:00 PDT OAKLAND -- In one of the toughest crackdowns against police corruption in Oakland history, the Alameda County district attorney will charge four police . But the Riders wasnt the only criminal case file involving Oakland police corruption destroyed by the Alameda County Superior Court. He fought back and ended up with a reprimand. Biden was also able to flip Kent and Leelanau, though, two more traditionally Republican counties (though both also voted for Gov. 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. However, Vazquezs case documents were inaccessible to the public until Sept. 27, when the Alameda County clerk uploaded them to its electronic records database in response to questions from The Appeal. Record turnout of 5.5 million, larger than that seen in the election of 2008,drove his victory. moving forward. 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. 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. Harris denied ever asking for police to cover any fees, her attorney said in an interview in February. 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