About This Work. Since the inception of the consent decree, the agency has cycled through 10 police chiefs, all of whom have failed to fulfill the reform programs mandates. County officials say Eric Smith sentencing shows public corruption will not be tolerated Macomb County officials said Eric Smith's conviction on public corruption charges should restore the. An outspoken, genuine sort of bloke, he pushed back on the notion that nothing had been done about alleged probate corruption. Hes part of a case there right now. 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. All rights reserved. Last week, Andre Spivey pled guilty to federal bribery charges and admitted he and an aide received almost $36,000 in bribes. The Appeal was unable to contact Neely. But he kept it up, and it worked to a great degree. My opinion was, and still is, is that Valerga should have gone to prison, Rullamas said during the deposition. For instance, the 2020 election showed its share of vote-splitters. The Oakland Police Department has been under a nearly two-decade-long federal oversight program as a result of the Riders case, in which officers were accused of beating and planting drugs on West Oakland residents. that ended in 2003 with the Oakland police being placed under a federal consent decree. And in Grand Traverse, Trump went from winning by 13 points four years ago to beating Biden by just 3. 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. Would dismantling Interstate 980 repair damage to Black neighborhoods? ", ames Ryan Jr.'s company Public Affairs Associates (PAA) has longstanding ties to Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer and was among the, Gretchen Rachel Hammond is an award-winning freelance investigative journalist based out of Chicago. Smiths felony charges from the Michigan Attorney Generals Office are all in relation to alleged misuse of forfeiture funds. 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. This year, Trump won 52%-48%.He got 552 votes to Biden's 509. At the time, the chief told the lead investigator she was concerned about retaliation, according to the document. 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). 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A high-level review of elder care issues? 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. 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. 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. I do hope hes got his Geiger Counter on standby. 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. In Livingston County, for instance, Trump won by 23 points but that was 7 points worse than he had done against Clinton. 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. 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. The president, meanwhile, has repeatedly shown himself to be a political marvel, defying odds and proving pundits, handicappers and pollsters wrong. Harris denied ever asking for police to cover any fees, her attorney said in an interview in February. On the morning of March 25, I paused to watch Nessels presser on Facebook. 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. The AARP didnt want to know either. And despite the fact that Detroit is part of Wayne County and Trump has claimed it iscorruption there that cost him the state, it's worth noting that Biden got about 1,000 fewer votes than Clinton did out of Detroit proper, while Trump's support in the city grew by about 5,000 votes. On Nov. 16, 2000, Officer Harper was acquitted of all charges after a month-long trial. In suburban Oakland County, meanwhile, Biden's support grew by 91,000 votes though the president isn't making claims about trucks pulling up in the dead of the night there. In 2000, Ortiz, Liddy, and Buchanan were convicted by a Los Angeles County jury of framing gang members and planting evidence. 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. Chapter 1: Police, Prosecutors, the Privileged, and Politics. OCSO in the Community. In Antrim County, where an initial count raised questions and led to a re-tabulation, Trump's margin of victory fell 15%. Most recently, investigations involve Detroit City Councilmembers Andre Spivey, Janee Ayers and Scott Benson. The judgesdecided on a sample of 2,278 guardianship and conservatorship cases my team and I reviewed. The commission had called for the firing of five officers involved in the shooting, rather than the suspension Kirkpatrick, police internal affairs and the police departments executive force review board made. In 1945, Michigan was racked with corruption. By Nate Gartrell | ngartrell@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group. Anyone with information about public corruption anywhere in Michigan should report it directly to FBI Detroit special agents and analysts at MichiganCorruption@fbi.gov. On the night of March 21, a South Michigan guardianship reform activist forwarded an email she had received from a reporter at a local paper. By the morning of Friday March 22, I was getting nervous. 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.. And then of course in the mid-'70s, '76, '77, with the four children in Oakland County who were kidnapped and killed. Bill Ballenger: The blue AMC Gremlin, child killer. The Biden campaign knew it, telling reporters Trump would have to top 62% of the in-person voting in order to overcome the advantage. I replied that I had shared our findings with the Detroit Area Anti-Corruption Task Force. On Nov. 16, 2000, Officer Harper was acquitted of all charges after a month-long trial. Charges were filed by the Los Angeles District Attorney against Sgt. That piece concluded that history indicated that anytime a Democratic presidential or gubernatorial candidate won betterthan 56% in metro Detroit defined as Macomb, Oakland and Wayne counties he or she would win the state. Two years later, ADDMS was also found to be up to its ears in all kinds of alleged malfeasance (of course, no one was ever prosecuted) and it was also a company to which George handed over rewards in the form of docket-fulls of wards. We can do something right now. Gretchen Rachel Hammond is an award-winning freelance investigative journalist based out of Chicago. 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. And one. Those officers have since been fired. Biden lost in all those places, as he did in all but 11 of the state's 83 counties. 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. "We have no specific instances of wrongdoing.". The 2020 election isn't a story about corruption. Kos Media, LLC. The meeting was set for March 12. The Free Press: Thats what it says on the cereal box. 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. Therefore, Moody had no jurisdiction over them. Trump, despite ending his campaign in Grand Rapids and making west Michigan a focus of his campaign, raised less than 75,000 new votes. On the other hand, Steven G. Cohen, the attorney who brought the lawsuit against Chase and Jefferson, ended up on the wrong side of the Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission for his trouble. Not all branches of Californias courts are as aggressive as Alameda County in destroying police corruption files. In November 2005, Valerga pleaded guilty to the charges, all misdemeanors. How come I didnt know? 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 it was clear that Democratic voters, especially, heeded the call to vote absentee. "The Trump surge came at the end and he couldn't quite catch up to Biden's advantage," he said. They will take months to do anything. 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. In response to emailed questions from the Appeal about the destruction of the Riders files, a representative for the Superior Court in Alameda County wrote that the files were eligible for destruction and provided a link to the state government code permitting their disposal. Throughout the day, I tried to call the AGs office and was repeatedly told that the entire communications team was In a meeting.. Whether I received my answers from Nessel in the form of an official comment or not, the AG herself had ordered the meeting. In the region around Saginaw Bay and the Thumb, he got 27,000 more votes than in 2016 out of an area still trying to dig itself out of long-standing manufacturing losses. Republican voters, though, as well as Democratic ones, are clearly not monolithic. 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. "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. However, theres always the unexpected. In 2005, Hornung was acquitted after his second trial in which some of the charges against him were dropped. Four years ago, its 974 votes broke 61%-35% for Trump. OAKLAND COUNTY. Barry and Marion King's 11-year-old son, Tim King, was the last victim of the Oakland County Child Killer. In 2015, the Superior Court in Alameda County, California, quietly destroyed the criminal case files for three former Oakland police officers, known as the Riders, who stood trial for beating, falsely arresting, and framing dozens of African American men in the late 1990s and early 2000s, The Appeal has learned. Former LAPD officer Rafael Perez was convicted in 2000 on state felony charges for stealing eight pounds of cocaine from an evidence locker. Of course, the fix is much more complicated than that, and this too will be explored at a later date. Almost immediately, they are forced from their homes and into long-term care facilities or unlicensed group facilities with subhuman living conditions. Oh them! Teter replied, growing visibly impatient. 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. Nessel claimed that the Task Force was working in concert with the Supreme Court Justices. The Sheriff's Office continues to be active in communities throughout Oakland County by offering several programs to assist those in need. 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. And while we don't know precisely what that percentage was yet across the state, Kiska's key precincts give a decent idea. Just what in the blue fuck was that supposed to mean? Michael Buchanan, and Officer Brian Liddy. 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. Sgt. The department remains under a federal judges authority and bound by a settlement agreement that details numerous reforms. If you have any . 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. The many decades of deceit, public corruption, evidence contamination, and including the lack of following up on anything. They always left with no result. Numerous other officers were named during the investigation and trial as having participated in similar abuses. So, I never took for granted the honor of telling someones story and elevating a voice; especially if they had suffered from injustice or been discarded by society. We had supplied Teter and his people with multiple cases demonstrating pattern and practice. Lelands guilty plea stemmed from him being indicted on federal bribery charges and a felony misconduct in office charge for accepting $15,000 in cash and free car repairs in exchange for his vote on a land deal, according to the FBI. Yet she, somehow, forgot to mention to them the evidence my team and I brought to her staff and years of complaints to her office, and that of her predecessor, by wards and their families. The Attorney General has created an Elder Abuse Task Force, he told me. However, on Dec. 22, 2000, Judge Jaqueline Connor. 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. Leland admitted to accepting the cash when he pled guilty. I called some old friends still in the business in Chicago and they agreed to vouch for me if necessary. "It used to be, you went in and voted your party," Avery said. 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. 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 Under the Brady rule, prosecutors must disclose material that might help the defense, including information that undermines the credibility of state witnesses. Contact Todd Spangler:tspangler@freepress.com. When including public contractors that number rises to about 40. 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. 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. Mabanag and officers Jude Siapno and Matthew Hornung were tried in the case twice. March 13, he continued. Kirkpatrick alleges in the suit that she was fired in February for standing up to the misconduct and reporting it. This year, 1,311 voters cast ballots, andit was Trump 49.4% to 49.1% for Biden. Lucido seemed equally surprised because, he said, there was supposed to be a press conference about it on March 25. That played out in other areas all over the state. So, I continued my work with the security that its results, pending rigorous fact-checking, had a home. That held true in my February 16, 2019 email asking for a face-to-face with Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel. Meanwhile, a small contingent of family members set out for Lansing to stand outside her offices and plead their case to any passing journalists. Mar 02, 2022. Some voters are unwilling to admit they are voting for him. 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. Oakland County Courts are known for their corruption and their extortion. 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. Whether Moody had jurisdiction over them or not, even after public administrators like Munger had been fired by him in 2017, Munger still took and was taking deceased estate as well as guardianship and conservatorship cases at the Oakland County Probate Court. 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 . 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. I have to come to the conclusion that there is a certain lie factor, a certain unwillingness of Trump voters to express themselves.". Edward Ortiz, Officer Paul Harper, Sgt. 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%. 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. Only one of them Saginaw was among those Trump flipped four years ago, and even then, Biden won it by only three-tenths of 1%. Sometimes, after a salacious bit of information is published, all the OpEd scribes line up to give their two penneth. Reporting suspects and suspicious events seems to go nowhere. Teter had certainly not brought it up either at our meeting or any time afterwards. During thirteen months in 1976 and 1977, four children were abducted, abused in captivity and then murdered, their bodies tossed by public roadsides. And his percentage of the overall vote actually declined slightly. The initial charges against Smith were the state charges and occurred in March of 2020, and the federal charges came in September of 2020. Is the Future of Southeast Michigans Public Transportation Regional. So they didn't vote for her. 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. 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. At least once a year, but usually more often than that, a public corruption cases surfaces in Southeastern Michigan that involves a public official. 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. Evidence Room: 248-858-5062. SAN FRANCISCO Three Bay Area men, including a justice activist who billed himself as a youth mentor just 11 days after . Kirkpatricks lawsuit seeks an unspecified amount of monetary damages for loss of pay, benefits and loss of future earnings. 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. But then, these families could not get moveon.org to tweet a single word about them and, despite the complete eradication of their loved ones civil rights, the Detroit office of the ACLU told them to stick it. 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. Either way, guardianship is a life sentence which hardly anyone in this country knows or about which anyone has cared to educate themselves. 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. Accepting what "is" here is NOT acceptable. After all, less than a week after Nessels office asked to meet with me, the Detroit-area Task Force raided the Taylor, Michigan City Hall and the Attorney General herself released a note congratulating them. 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