The Appeal was unable to contact Neely. In Oakland County, in Novi Precinct 21, Clinton eked out a 49.8%-46.9% among the 1,157 votes. After the city rejects a claim, a lawsuit can be filed. Sheriff Bouchard is excited to announce several new programs this year, and the expansion of existing programs. Theiralleged victims number in the high thousands of Michigan's most vulnerable senior and developmentally disabled citizens, each declared legally incapacitated wards and placed under a court-appointed guardianship and conservatorship. The Biden campaign knew it, telling reporters Trump would have to top 62% of the in-person voting in order to overcome the advantage. Would dismantling Interstate 980 repair damage to Black neighborhoods? Metricmaps.org. 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). In January 2005, Valerga was charged with two counts of violating the civil rights of his victims, and two counts of false imprisonment. Biden lost in all those places, as he did in all but 11 of the state's 83 counties. So, prior to the meeting, my team and I reached a decision that if Moody was going to get involved, our best course of action was to provide the proof of our findings but protect the alleged victims and their families by: A) Redacting the names and case numbers from documents. He left a few staff members behind to hear them, but the families were devastated. By the morning of Friday March 22, I was getting nervous. In 2008, Oakland paid $2 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit brought by 16 womenall of whom were Asian Americanwho said they were victims of Valerga. On Nov. 16, 2000, Officer Harper was acquitted of all charges after a month-long trial. Kinzinger, the attorney, told The Appeal that because the Riders trials ended with hung juries and the court dismissed the cases after 60 days, the retention requirement for the case files dropped to three years from 50. Biden won in Genesee, Ingham, Kalamazoo, Kent, Leelanau, Marquette, Muskegon, Oakland, Saginaw, Washtenaw and Wayne counties. The case led to a parallel civil rights lawsuit brought by. There were moments when, for example, I tried to raise the subject of Moody and Teter immediately shut me down. But the Riders wasnt the only criminal case file involving Oakland police corruption destroyed by the Alameda County Superior Court. An example of that varying support can be found in Clinton Township Precinct 38, located along Romeo Plank at Hall Road. At that point, I was struggling to keep a grip on my own temper. What is fundamentally clear is that neither the Free Press nor Nessel wanted me there asking anything specific. Theres a reason for why this story is on my personal blog and not a mainstream outlet. Political parties have to realign their messaging," she said. March 13, he continued. A documentary crew with exclusive access follows the new leadership with the cold case team devoted to Morgan's case. "We know that a lot of that was baked in. In total, there have been at least 32 public corruption charges since 2016 in Southeastern Michigan that involve either an elected official or a public employee. 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. Its my first and last OpEd so it calls for some trial anderror. Charges against Vazquez are still active because he is considered a fugitive. A complete list of individual units is below. "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. 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 press conference was Monday morning. 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. As to why that should be the case, Porn said, "I think it's unique to the character of Donald Trump and how he is perceived. - John F . 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. Under Kirkpatrick, five previously achieved tasks were brought out of compliance. 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. And there are any number of places where such a change can be demonstrated, across metro Detroit. In addition, outside law enforcement . And in Grand Traverse, Trump went from winning by 13 points four years ago to beating Biden by just 3. Kirkpatrick pointed to a 2018 internal city document made public that said police Commissioner Ginale Harris demanded the department and the chief pay her back for towing fees Harris owed the city. In November 2005, Valerga pleaded guilty to the charges, all misdemeanors. Thatdifference was even more stark in Kent County in west Michigan, where Trump lost,getting 165,318 votes to Biden's 186,753. That held true in my February 16, 2019 email asking for a face-to-face with Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel. His case file remains in the archives of Los Angeless court system. Well let me say something to you, we do have the evidence.. Monitor the livestream broadcast if youre worried about integrity of the process, but this isnt worth the back and forth with AGs office.. , 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. For instance, look at East Bay Township Precinct 1 in Grand Traverse County. The Oakland Field Office of IRS Criminal Investigation has dedicated resources to unraveling the truth behind the extensive web of corruption, which Mohammed Nuru presided over, during his tenure leading the San Francisco Department of Public Works," said IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Mark H. Pearson. can stand by your side from the initial investigation onward. 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. With no comment at all, Teter left around 4 pm, just before the families were going to tell him each of their stories. My opinion was, and still is, is that Valerga should have gone to prison, Rullamas said during the deposition. He is a man to whom I will be indebted for the rest of my life. 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. Prologue. 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. And legal experts say that destroying records of police misconduct, even if authorized by state statute, may conflict with the constitutional rights of defendants. Republican voters, though, as well as Democratic ones, are clearly not monolithic. SAN FRANCISCO Three Bay Area men, including a justice activist who billed himself as a youth mentor just 11 days after . Finally, late in the evening, too late anyway for my editor friends in Chicago to RSVP on my behalf, I received a text from my editor at the Free Press. Or one of the cases that had the DPOA that was ignored to see if we could file a motion to terminate. Oakland County Courts are known for their corruption and their extortion. IRS delays tax deadline for Bay Area, but California hasn't followed: What should you do? 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. Edward Ortiz, Officer Paul Harper, Sgt. As part of his plea deal, Perez turned states evidence and accused dozens of other LAPD officers of misconduct. Scott Adams faces 'consequence culture' as U.S. newspapers drop Dilbert, Tom Cruise's 'ditching' of Suri showcased by Judd Apatow's 'co-parenting' joke, ex-Scientology exec says. And his percentage of the overall vote actually declined slightly. Kirkpatrick publicly stated she would file suit in March, shortly after she was fired. The Appeal was unable to locate Valerga for comment. It is one of the 80 key precincts identified by Tim Kiska, an associate professor at the University of Michigan-Dearborn who does election analysisfor the Free Press, as representative of the direction the state may take in a given election. In 1945, Michigan was racked with corruption. In 2016, more than 75,000 people in the state cast ballots but didn't vote for any presidential candidate. The Sheriff's Office continues to be active in communities throughout Oakland County by offering several programs to assist those in need. On July 3, 2000, Batt resigned and blew the whistle on the misconduct he witnessed. Whether I received my answers from Nessel in the form of an official comment or not, the AG herself had ordered the meeting. Angela Ruggiero covers criminal justice and the Alameda County Superior Court. 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. 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. Throughout the day, I tried to call the AGs office and was repeatedly told that the entire communications team was In a meeting.. Under the guardianship of Macomb County Public Administrator Robert Kirk and his wife Cathy, they were literally fenced inside their own home. Theres a reason why I have boxes and flash drives full of evidence and no-one to whom to give them. This year, he won the precinct again. Record turnout of 5.5 million, larger than that seen in the election of 2008,drove his victory. However, on Dec. 22, 2000, Judge Jaqueline Connor overturned the jury verdict. 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. I patiently reiterated that the wards had been placed in these homes by public administrators and was about to say the name Moody again when Teter lost his temper and told me I was twisting his words. I replied that I had shared our findings with the Detroit Area Anti-Corruption Task Force. 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. They asked you to jump and, instead of backing me, you did.. California law also includes a provision that allowed the Riders case files to be destroyed after just three years. If that's the case, it's not just in Michigan, but in several other states as well, including Wisconsin and Florida, where Trump clearly outperformed most recent polls. The 2020 election isn't a story about corruption. 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. 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. Support a worker-led Appeal. She invited me to be a join it on. Her work has won or been nominated for four successive Chicago Press Club awards, been recognized by the National Association of Lesbian and Gay Journalists (NLGJA), and covered topics such as criminal justice,abuse atICE detention facilities, andalleged discriminationon the part of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services leading to the unnecessary separation of children from their parents. Just what in the blue fuck was that supposed to mean? Edward Ortiz, Officer Paul Harper, Sgt. SF corruption scandal widens: Two business leaders charged with bribing City Hall official. It included Nessels press conference announcement which noted that only credentialed members of the press who had RSVPd to a Nessel communications team member would be allowed to attend. I emailed my editor again with no response. At least once a year, but usually more often than that, a public corruption cases surfaces in Southeastern Michigan that involves a public official. A high level review of elder care issues?. The difference? This time it was defined by a Republican senators big mouth. But even as Trump added some365,000 voters to his totals in Michigan from four years ago in Tuesday's general election, his opponent, Democratic nominee Joe Biden, didfar better, running up surging vote totals in urban and suburban areas and narrowing Trump'sedge in key counties, including Macomb,Kent and Livingston. The commission and Mayor Libby Schaaf on Feb. 20 jointly fired Kirkpatrick without cause, ending months of tension between the chief and the independent citizens board. As for Smith, he pled guilty to a federal obstruction of justice charge for covering up theft from his campaign fund. And one. It is now . 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. I did so immediately with no response. 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. 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. By then, Teter was already in a meeting with Nessel deciding what to do next. 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. v. City of Oakland (or the Riders Case or Riders Scandal) was a civil rights lawsuit in Federal District Court regarding police misconduct in Oakland, California which has resulted in ongoing Federal oversight. The Kirks formed a professional guardianship company and gave it the name Caring Hearts a more palatable title but no less vicious than their Macomb County predecesssor,ADDMS Guardianship Services. Most recently, investigations involve Detroit City Councilmembers Andre Spivey, Janee Ayers and Scott Benson. But Biden was able to show some surprising levels of support in Republican areas relative to Trump. Those Oakland and Washtenaw County families whose stories I had the honor of telling knewthat Nessels Frday dictum wasbullshit. Yet, for the months which followed, Nessel refused to say the words public administrator and investigation in the same sentence. There is no evidence of absentee ballot corruption in Michigan and none of widespread problems nationwide. Not only did he flip Kent, where Grand Rapids is located, he cut Trump's margin in Ottawa County, in one of the most Republican parts of the state, by 9 percentage points. 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. 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. Its a high-level review of elder care issues. The Truth About Marijuana and the Criminal Legal System, Florida Cops Nearly Sent a Five-Year-Old to Jail, When It Comes to Reporting Deaths of Incarcerated People, Most States Break the Law, M. Forrest Behne, Craig Waleed, Meghan Peterson, and Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, Gay And Trans Panic Is Still Being Used To Justify Anti-LGBTQ Attacks. Chapter 3: Law and Order - LBP. His margin of support among white men without college degrees was even higher, 64%-34%. Under the Brady rule, prosecutors must disclose material that might help the defense, including information that undermines the credibility of state witnesses. 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. Besides, when you are investigating alleged public corruption, you lose your belief in the coincidental. 2 days ago Armored truck driver shoots at attempted robbers outside Southfield McDonald's An. After all, they were out of state, But I never thought it would be. Daily Kos readers dont tend towards the troll, yet never couch brutal honesty in niceties. The Kirks were donors to Macomb County Probate Judge Kathryn Georges re-election campaign. 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. 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. In 2000, Vazquez fled the country before he was arraigned on 18 felony counts including kidnapping, assault, and conspiracy to obstruct justice. 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. In 2015, the Alameda County Superior Court destroyed the case files for Neely and Richholt, erasing the only public record of the incident aside from media reports. 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. Mohammed Nuru, director of San Francisco Public Works, center, gestures as he leaves a federal . They are all sharp as tacks anyway. Meanwhile, a small contingent of family members set out for Lansing to stand outside her offices and plead their case to any passing journalists. On Sept. 26, 2002, narcotics unit officers Richholt and Neely were arrested at a beauty salon after offering $160 to several women in exchange for oral sex. Teter had certainly not brought it up either at our meeting or any time afterwards. 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. For Coblentz, that is 296 cases involving 345 defendants . 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. This year, Trump won 52%-48%.He got 552 votes to Biden's 509. Can you give me more information on that file so we can pull the probate file?, Also, we are looking for the most egregious case that involved either the Guardian ad Litum ignoring the ward (who isnt incapacitated), he added. Your email address will not be published. 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. Even after I received their 2018 Letter of Intent to publish my investigation into the Oakland County Probate Court, I was cautious. Recently backsliding has left the department, as of February, eight tasks short of full compliance with the court. The litigants are Aretha Franklins family members. 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. In fact, the entire day went by with radio silence from both the Free Press and Rossman-McKinney. "That tells me some of those folks in Oakland County are turned off by Trump himself but would support Republican principles, at least as John James was pushing them," Dulio said. In Los Angeles County, the superior courts criminal division retained files for several former officers who were charged in the. However, they never faced criminal charges. The AARP didnt want to know either. But it was 56%-45%. I immediately pulled the project from the Free Press and scrambled to find a self-publish website while continuing to gather research. All of them showed shocking financial malfeasance. 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. The Oakland police fired Valerga after he was criminally charged. He was sentenced to 180 days in jail and three years of probation. For months, the president had been saying you can't trust absentee, mail-in ballots so his base was not using it. The president, meanwhile, has repeatedly shown himself to be a political marvel, defying odds and proving pundits, handicappers and pollsters wrong. We had supplied Teter and his people with multiple cases demonstrating pattern and practice. One attorney who did described sanctions and threats of Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission complaints from both the PAs and the judges. The sentencing was supposed to have been held Tuesday. Nothing that was goingto happen in the last couple of weeks was going to change those votes.". I have to come to the conclusion that there is a certain lie factor, a certain unwillingness of Trump voters to express themselves.". 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. I told Lucido that I had heard no mention of a Task Force at all. All of them were actively quashed from the public. The initial charges against Smith were the state charges and occurred in March of 2020, and the federal charges came in September of 2020. And then you did. The journalists in attendance were, justifiably, appalled and, in the end, Burgio ended up getting far more ink than Nessel. 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. 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 . ), I felt like Adlai Stevenson staring down Ambassador Zorin. 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. "We have no specific instances of wrongdoing.". Kirkpatrick notified city officials, and the request was included in an investigation of Harris that had been initiated by then-City Administrator Sabrina Landreth. "My inclination was that the blue wall states were going to do what they normally do and vote Democrat.". 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. 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 5: The Runaway. Much of his bluster was false rhetoric. They wanted his license. Under the Brady rule, prosecutors must disclose material that might help the defense, including information that undermines the credibility of state witnesses. Required fields are marked *. Why are you working with them?. The destruction of the Riders files is also an erasure of an extraordinary case of corruption that ended with the Oakland Police Department placed under a federal judges oversight. 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