The fact that many of those areas are Republican-leaning or backed the president, as much as anything, give the lie to Trump's wild and seemingly desperateclaims that it was corruption in Detroit that cost him the election, when there is no evidence to support it. Under Kirkpatrick, five previously achieved tasks were brought out of compliance. . 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. To help, we passed around photographs that we had taken during our visits to them. 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. The case led to a parallel civil rights lawsuit brought by. After we hung up, I immediately sent an email to Rossman-McKinney with no response. In Livingston County, for instance, Trump won by 23 points but that was 7 points worse than he had done against Clinton. that ended in 2003 with the Oakland police being placed under a federal consent decree. Reporting suspects and suspicious events seems to go nowhere. He also saw raw numbers of voters swell in virtually every part of Michigan,which is a testament to his ability to generate additional support where it had seemed it had hit a ceiling. In 2005, Hornung was acquitted after his second trial in which some of the charges against him were dropped. You strung me along for eight months. They had a history of superlative reporting which seemed to substantiate that. 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. His name was Dennis Burgio and he had a heartbreaking story to tell about how he had been cleaned out of his 401k by a friend and former insurance agent;the same numbers I was seeing stripped from Oakland County wards by their public administrators, guardians. 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. It would be a long shot. We have it and it is clear and incontrovertible. I truly believe that they dont see what theyre doing as being corrupt. The Oakland police fired Valerga after he was criminally charged. 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. Exposing how the U.S. criminal legal system fails to keep people safe and perpetuates harm. But Biden got 40% to Clinton's 36%. "Everything will have to start a lot earlier. Recently backsliding has left the department, as of February, eight tasks short of full compliance with the court. By that, we're talking about the fact that while third party candidates played an oversize role in the 2016 election, with Libertarian Gary Johnson and Green Party nominee Jill Stein taking about 5% of the vote, they accounted for just a little over 1% in this election. Daily Kos readers dont tend towards the troll, yet never couch brutal honesty in niceties. Teter gravely asked if I had shared the information with anyone. Kirkpatrick publicly stated she would file suit in March, shortly after she was fired. 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. 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. And then of course in the mid-'70s, '76, '77, with the four children in Oakland County who were kidnapped and killed. Besides, there were Attorney General appointees allegedly engaged in unimaginable elder abuse and that wasn't high level enough? 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. 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. At the time, the chief told the lead investigator she was concerned about retaliation, according to the document. 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. However, on Dec. 22, 2000, Judge Jaqueline Connor overturned the jury verdict. ", 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. This request came because, according to news reports, Millers attorney claims there was no criminal intent with his interaction related to the larger case of alleged misuse of forfeiture funds by Smith. The president, meanwhile, has repeatedly shown himself to be a political marvel, defying odds and proving pundits, handicappers and pollsters wrong. The U.S. Supreme Court has explained that the rule extends to any favorable evidence known to others acting on the governments behalf in the case, including the police.. The sole remaining court record of the Riders case is related to officer Frank Vazquez, known to his fellow officers as Choker because he frequently grabbed people by their necks. Prologue. As part of his plea deal, Perez turned states evidence and accused dozens of other LAPD officers of misconduct. 28 police officers with allegations involving a prostitute. Public corruption occurs when anyone who works for the . In addition, former Detroit Councilman Gabe Leland pled guilty to misconduct in office in May of 2021, and he resigned from City Council following the plea. Staff writer David DeBolt contributed to this report. And that's in a county, like Kent, where Trump held a rally on the last day of the campaign, making his case to voters. In order to make her point, only one member of the public was invited to attend. Since 2016 there has been two public corruption cases in Oakland County and one in St. Clair County; no other county in the region has had any cases come to light. Feds file obstruction case against ex-W. Bloomfield schools official . 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. They always left with no result. Kirkpatrick alleges in the suit that she was fired in February for standing up to the misconduct and reporting it. She invited me to be a join it on. 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 James won over Peters in that county, with 176,356 to 174,147 for Peters. 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. 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. Wayne County, including Detroit, has the highest number of public corruption charges in the region, and the state, followed by Macomb County. On July 3, 2000, Batt resigned and blew the whistle on the misconduct he witnessed. 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. Almost immediately, they are forced from their homes and into long-term care facilities or unlicensed group facilities with subhuman living conditions. On the morning of March 25, I paused to watch Nessels presser on Facebook. He joined the . Biden won in Genesee, Ingham, Kalamazoo, Kent, Leelanau, Marquette, Muskegon, Oakland, Saginaw, Washtenaw and Wayne counties. Not all branches of Californias courts are as aggressive as Alameda County in destroying police corruption files. But, I keptthe name of the Free Press out of requests for interviews. But not this time, evenwith Trump winning Macomb for a second time. Edward Ortiz, Officer Paul Harper, Sgt. The Attorney General has created an Elder Abuse Task Force, he told me. His case file remains in the archives of Los Angeless court system. The Riders case is significant for police accountability in Oakland. J. Dallo is a dedicated and aggressive fighter, both in and out of the courtroom. I called some old friends still in the business in Chicago and they agreed to vouch for me if necessary. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot concedes defeat, Southern California home sales fall to all-time low, Denver just got a direct flight to this Caribbean island known for music history and vegetarian cooking, NYC Mayor Adams dismisses need to separate church and state, declares himself a servant of God, Zero-calorie sweetener linked to heart attack and stroke, study finds, Do Not Sell/Share My Personal Information. SF corruption scandal widens: Two business leaders charged with bribing City Hall official. "It used to be, you went in and voted your party," Avery said. 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. 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. Of course, the fix is much more complicated than that, and this too will be explored at a later date. With no due process, or medical evidence presented as to a wards incapacity, shocking judicial overreach led them to be stripped of each of their constitutional, statutory, civil and human rights. After all, the families had already agreed to go on the record with their stories. 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. In May, 2019, she paid a visit to an elderly couple, Bob and Barb. The litigants are Aretha Franklins family members. Apr 20, 2022, M. Forrest Behne, Craig Waleed, Meghan Peterson, and Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein 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. The Section's public corruption work involves the investigation and prosecution of bribery, extortion, fraud, and embezzlement committed by elected and appointed officials, government employees, and those doing business with city, state, and federal government. Former LAPD officer Rafael Perez was convicted in 2000 on state felony charges for stealing eight pounds of cocaine from an evidence locker. 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 . In January 2005, Valerga was charged with two counts of violating the civil rights of his victims, and two counts of false imprisonment. 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. Since taking the bench in 2003, George had somehow survived numerous scandals and, like most Michigan probate court judges, knew on which side her bread was buttered. took a deep dive into the state's regions, their voting trends and their importance in electing statewide candidates. All rights reserved. "Kos" and "Daily Kos" are registered trademarks of Kos Media, LLC. The second trials of Mabanag and Siapno also ended in hung juries. Driving Biden's success wasn't only the fact that he did better percentage-wise than Clinton did in 2016 across metro Detroit, however. Investigative and Forensic Services Division - Captain Joseph Quisenberry: 248-858-5087. "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. On Nov. 16, 2000, Officer Harper was acquitted of all charges after a month-long trial. 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 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. With no comment at all, Teter left around 4 pm, just before the families were going to tell him each of their stories. Nessel claimed that the Task Force was working in concert with the Supreme Court Justices. Would dismantling Interstate 980 repair damage to Black neighborhoods? "The Trump surge came at the end and he couldn't quite catch up to Biden's advantage," he said. themselves as FBI agents during the incident. 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 . Angela Ruggiero covers criminal justice and the Alameda County Superior Court. 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. 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%. 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. 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 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 . But in. However, they never faced criminal charges. 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. And his percentage of the overall vote actually declined slightly. 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. Delphine Allen et al. Fired Oakland police chief sues city for, Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Chart: Bay Area rainfall totals for this week, Fired Oakland police chief sues city for alleged retaliation for exposing corruption, abuse of power. The Kirks were donors to Macomb County Probate Judge Kathryn Georges re-election campaign. But it was clear that Democratic voters, especially, heeded the call to vote absentee. Sheriff Bouchard is excited to announce several new programs this year, and the expansion of existing programs. Every single time, they were told to "get an attorney but hardly anyone dared to represent wards or families fighting Public Administrators and court-appointed guardians. The Oakland city attorneys office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. 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. The seven commissioners, Harris included, voted unanimously in February to remove Kirkpatrick from her position. 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. 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. In 2000, rookie officer Keith Batt and his training officer Clarence Mabanag rampaged through West Oaklands Black neighborhoods. I didn't quote him at the time but there were more than a few moments I wanted to blurt out "Well let me tell you, with a trespass on credulity that excels your best, that we do have the evidence. High-Ranking Ventura County Gang Member Linked to Mexican Mafia Sentenced to . In 2016, more than 75,000 people in the state cast ballots but didn't vote for any presidential candidate. We can do something right now. Nov. 2, 2000. Since they had never received a single response from their own attempts to shed light on what was happening at the probate court, I hoped to discern why, while giving them an opportunity to be heard. Edward Ortiz, Officer Paul Harper, Sgt. Its really hard toconfer a whistleblowing case when no one knew the whistle had been blown, Jackson said. He is a man to whom I will be indebted for the rest of my life. 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 The Free Press: Thats what it says on the cereal box. Read more onMichigan politics and sign up for ourelections newsletter. Charges were filed by the Los Angeles District Attorney against Sgt. "I think it says a lot more about Hillary Clinton than it does Joe Biden," said David Dulio, director of the Center for Civic Engagement at Oakland University. Barry and Marion King's 11-year-old son, Tim King, was the last victim of the Oakland County Child Killer. Kos Media, LLC. 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. Two leaders of an Oakland construction management firm pleaded guilty Thursday to felony charges in the far-reaching San Francisco City Hall corruption scandal centered . But Biden was able to show some surprising levels of support in Republican areas relative to Trump. 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. 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. Posted in: Uncategorized After speaking with AG [sic] office they assure me the task force has nothing to do with Oakland County issues, he wrote. This year, he won the precinct again. 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. In November 2005, Valerga pleaded guilty to the charges, all misdemeanors. 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. As part of his plea deal, Perez turned states evidence and accused dozens of other LAPD officers of misconduct. 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. As a result, this activity has continued unchecked for at least three decades, with probate court audits covered up by Nessel and her predecessors, the Michigan Supreme Court and the State Court Administrator's Office. His case file remains in the archives of Los Angeless court system. By then, Teter was already in a meeting with Nessel deciding what to do next. I told Lucido that I had heard no mention of a Task Force at all. Ali Winston, 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. Well let me say something to you, we do have the evidence.. 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. Oakland County Courts are known for their corruption and their extortion. By Nate Gartrell | ngartrell@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group. Juvenile (delinquency/abuse neglect) - 248-766-7533. A complete list of individual units is below. So, I continued my work with the security that its results, pending rigorous fact-checking, had a home. Enthusiasm was clearly up, too. Since 2016 there has been two public corruption cases in Oakland County and one in St. Clair County; no other county in the region has had any cases come to light. The department remains under a federal judges authority and bound by a settlement agreement that details numerous reforms. As a result, the full extent of Valergas conduct remains unknown. And there are any number of places where such a change can be demonstrated, across metro Detroit. Turned out Taylors favorite hobby after Catallos story broke was taking to social media and yammering about both it and her as, ironically, being nothing more but fake news.. Some voters are unwilling to admit they are voting for him. 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.". 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. 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. In 2000, Ortiz, Liddy, and Buchanan were convicted by a Los Angeles County jury of framing gang members and planting evidence. In Antrim County, where an initial count raised questions and led to a re-tabulation, Trump's margin of victory fell 15%. Guys like John Chase and Alan May have been running roughshod for so long that theyve utterly lost their principles, he told me. Not only that, but from 2003-to-2008, the MSC was provided audits of probate courts, in at least six counties. Throughout the day, I tried to call the AGs office and was repeatedly told that the entire communications team was In a meeting.. After all, Rossman-McKinney hadnt risen to her position without the usual, required Machiavellian dexterity. Not with you and not with a publication that falls under the AGs sphere of influence. 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. Numerous other officers were named during the investigation and trial as having participated in similar abuses. moving forward. The decision to purge the files was legal, according to Tom Kinzinger, an attorney with Bryan Cave law firm who reviewed the Alameda County Superior Courts destruction of records for The Appeal. We have it and it is clear and incontrovertible.". Even after I received their 2018 Letter of Intent to publish my investigation into the Oakland County Probate Court, I was cautious. 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. A high level review of elder care issues?. I didn't quote him at the time but there were more than a few moments I wanted to blurt out "Well let me tell you, with a trespass on credulity that excels your best, that we do have the evidence. Both officers falsely represented themselves as FBI agents during the incident. 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. 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. Much of his bluster was false rhetoric. In 2003, the first trial ended in a hung jury. The case against Deanna Barash, 46, is the latest case filed by public corruption prosecutors against a . Five police departments ensnared in controversy. Metricmaps.org. 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 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. - John F . Macks defense of Michigan probate judges and the guardianship system itself has been so unyielding that in more direct attorney circles, he has since become knownas Mack the Shield.. 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. Still, I kept the faith. Originally, the oversight was to last five years, but the police department has been slow to achieve reforms. 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. For Shaw, that is 206 cases involving 256 defendants since February 2009, according to district attorney records obtained by The Times. Kirkpatrick notified city officials, and the request was included in an investigation of Harris that had been initiated by then-City Administrator Sabrina Landreth. The pair and other officers brutalized and planted drugs on suspects and filed false police reports resulting in wrongful convictions. (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication. 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. 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