Someone should definitely initiate investigation into Pete Lucindo for the simple fact that he has a personal interest in the well-being of children, when it comes to asset forfeiture and trust funds.
Just saying, because I know nothing, which is why there should be an investigation.
Sen. Pete Lucido apologized for the "misunderstanding," but also said the incident was "blown out of proportion."
A rookie news reporter was heaped with praise Wednesday for standing up to a powerful Michigan lawmaker who she says humiliated her when he allegedly told a visiting group of Catholic high school boys that they could “have a lot of fun” with her.
But Allison Donahue, who is just 22 and has worked for the Michigan Advance for eight months, said the hardest thing about her confrontation Tuesday with state Sen. Pete Lucido outside the Senate chamber in Lansing, Michigan was telling her father about it later.
“He was upset,” she told NBC News. “I frequently call him after work and tell him about the crazy days I have. It was heartbreaking to tell my dad something like that.”
Donahue said something similar happened to her when she was 15 and “I had to tell him about that too.”
Lucido, a 59-year-old Republican, issued an apology Wednesday. But his mea culpa came after first telling The Detroit Free Press that he didn’t feel he owed Donahue an apology, saying the whole matter had been “blown out of proportion.”
“I apologize for the misunderstanding yesterday and for offending Allison Donahue,” he said in a brief statement.
Donahue said she appreciated Lucido’s apology and said she hopes he read her first-person account of Tuesday’s encounter.
“I hope he reaches out and we can talk more,” she said. “Maybe we can find some common ground.”
I tried to interview Sen. Peter Lucido. He told me a group of schoolboys ‘could have a lot of fun’...
I waited outside the Michigan Senate chamber to ask Sen. Peter Lucido (R-Shelby Twp.) on Tuesday for a comment about the Detroit Metro Times’ story reporting that he was a member of a violent,...
NBC News reached out to Lucido, but there was no immediate response. Leaders of his own party as well as the Democrats were concerned by the incident.
“I take this very seriously and intend to have a very intense and lengthy conversation with the senator as soon as we’re done with session,” Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey, a Republican, told reporters. “If those words that were reported are accurate, it’s very unacceptable and that’s all I’ve got to say about it.”
Shirkey and Senate Minority Leader Jim Ananich, a Democrat who represents the city of Flint, later formally requested a sexual harassment investigation into Lucido.
Lucido is a married father of three whose district includes the state capital Lansing and who currently serves as the Majority Whip. He is also reportedly eyeing a possible run for governor in 2022 against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat.
Donahue is from western Michigan and covers education, immigration, women’s and LGBTQ issues for the Michigan Advance.
In her account, Donahue said she was waiting to ask Lucido about his involvement in an anti-Whitmer group on Facebook which includes “posts about graphic violence against Democrats, anti-Muslim rhetoric and degrading comments about women.”
Lucido had been hosting a group of students from his alma mater De La Salle Collegiate, which is an all boy’s Catholic high school in the Detroit suburb of Warren.
“I asked Lucido for a moment to address the issue at hand, and he told me he would catch up with me after he was finished honoring the group of students,” Donahue wrote. “As I turned to walk away, he asked, ‘You’ve heard of De La Salle, right?’”
Donahue said she hadn’t.
“It’s an all boys’ school,” he told me, Donahue wrote. “You should hang around! You could have a lot of fun with these boys, or they could have a lot of fun with you.”
Yes, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has historically changed the laws of chattel by increasing the age of emancipation for a youth from 15 years to 17 years, to "treat" this increased population of offenders to be transferred under the laws of asset forfeiture to give corporations parental rights, to "reduce their contact with the system" because the child welfare system is the largest industry in the State of Michigan.
Besides, you can keep this population under the auspices of the State until the age of 25, now, and when you do that, through that corporate parental rights proxy, a foreign corporation possesses the control of the absentee votes of that population, too!
Lansing — Bills that would treat 17-year-olds in Michigan’s criminal justice system as juveniles instead of adults were signed into law Thursday by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in what supporters called a "historic reform."
Michigan joins 46 other states who already treat 17-year-olds as juveniles or are preparing to do so. During a bill signing ceremony at the Capitol, Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist said the legislation would prevent kids from spending a lifetime in and out of prison.
"We can reduce their contact with the system," Gilchrist said. "We can ensure that more young people go down real paths to careers that make sense for them and allow them to live out their best potential … We can change the trajectory for life for thousands of people here in the state of Michigan."
Thursday's signing ceremony came after a years-long "raise the age" campaign and eventual passage in the past month by the Republican-controlled Legislature.
In 2014, the Michigan Council on Crime and Delinquency published a report on the treatment of young people in the state’s adult jails. The report found that 17-year-olds faced sexual and physical assaults and their incarceration as adults increased the risk they would commit additional crimes after release.
Jason Smith, director of youth justice policy for the Michigan Council on Crime and Delinquency, said 17-year-olds in the adult criminal justice system don’t receive age appropriate treatment and their families aren’t sufficiently involved.
Smith recalled initial meetings he had with former Rep. Harvey Santana, D-Detroit, in 2014 about the "raise the age" legislation. Smith said the push to get the bills through the Legislature was a "long road."
"We are celebrating today,” Smith added. "This is a historic reform for Michigan’s youth."
Criminal justice reform has become a focus of the Whitmer administration and a bipartisan group of lawmakers. Lawmakers have a better understanding today than they had 20 years about the types of systems that will rehabilitate offenders instead of simply "locking people up," Gilchrist said.
Former Rep. Joe Haveman, R-Holland, attended Thursday’s signing ceremony since he worked on a series of criminal justice reforms while serving in the Legislature from 2009 through 2014.
"We knew this stuff was going to succeed eventually," Haveman said. "You could see the train coming. You could see attitudes change."
If 17-year-olds move to the juvenile system, an increase of 7,564 juvenile cases is expected to occur in Michigan, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Senate Fiscal Agency. From July 2015 to July 2016, there were 29,959 juvenile cases overall.
Making that Medicaid Money.
Under the bills, the state would pay the increased costs faced by local governments because of the additional juvenile cases. The change would take effect in 2021.
State law would still allow prosecutors to pursue charging juveniles who commit serious crimes, such as murder or rape, as adults, but opponents of the "raise the age" bills have questioned how often that would actually happen.
Briana Moore of Madison Heights was one of the supporters who attended Thursday’s bill signing. Moore was charged with assault and battery when she was 17 years old because of her involvement in a scuffle at a mall. She was sentenced as an adult to a year of probation.
"Standing there and having my lawyer say you’re being charged as an adult, I’m like I can’t even sign up for the military and I can’t even vote," Moore said.
The adult conviction made it difficult to get a job and to pursue a college education, she said.
Smith noted that 17-year-olds who commit crimes in other states and are treated as juveniles are in better position for their future careers than similar 17-year-olds in Michigan.
"We are doing something right for kids today," Smith said.
Michigan Medicaid Targeted Population Cost Reimbursed Self Sufficiency Workforce Training Revenue Maximization Model
It is about time we stop labeling people. Seriously. Stop it. We have the technology to make it end.
I have no problems with generating opportunity for individuals to participate and flourish in society, however they ultimately decide; it is the lack of opportunity to discuss, or at least identify the doctrine of cui bono?"
Who benefits? The Public Private Partnerships or the individual?
Michigan, being the privatization think tank of the nation, has been pushing the proverbial envelop on targeted populations, the formal term for Medicaid revenue maximization.
How to find a Medicaid revenue maximization free labor workforce.
"ABLE-BODIED ADULT" MEANS AN INDIVIDUAL AT LEAST 18 YEARS OF AGE WHO IS PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY CAPABLE OF WORKING.
Who determines the boundaries for meeting the criteria of able-bodied adult?
Is this an GAL model?
Is this the Shared Parenting model, where Jim Runestad refuses to address anything to do with the State sharing parenting through the current child welfare model in Michigan.
Does this mean the "able-bodied adult" who is capable of working will have to work off the Medicaid debt for being previously classified as disabled, having received benefits, considering the disability criteria is about to change.
Well, actually, these Privateers really did want to convert children into its new workforce and even attempted to change child labor laws, but it did not go over so well.
So, what they did was start to change the entire concept of disability to include age, or rather, children.
This is an Industrial Organizational predictive analytical model to maximize revenues and seize assets.
I am quite sure there will be those highly sought after, lucrative database, third party contractors who will eventually sell off our data and intellectual property.
Why would there be a penalty provision of stripping one of opportunity to medical access if there is a procedural error?
Whether you like it or not, I am going to make the world go blockchain.
That way, if someone suspects you of stealin', we can trace it right back to the original mines the copper for the pennies you got by filing false claims for fraudulent cost reimbursements.
Oh, and if your programs suck, you will be shuttered, immediately because the world will know.
That is how you start building procurement policies.
I became a bit alarmed at this point because of two items in the language of the Bills.
A "prior conviction", which is so obfuscated with the entire idea of this being a prejudicial assumption that the person was convicted under Michigan's Moral Turpitude Law in child welfare.
I can smell the stench of the imperialistic morality paraders kilometers away, so I go look into the definition of fourth degree child abuse.
(7) A person is guilty of child abuse in the fourth degree if any of the following apply: (a) The person's omission or reckless act causes physical harm to a child. (b) The person knowingly or intentionally commits an act that under the circumstances poses an unreasonable risk of harm or injury to a child, regardless of whether physical harm results.
(8) Child abuse in the fourth degree is a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than 1 year.
This is a more intuitive understanding of fourth degree child abuse conviction from a Michigan law firm:
Fourth-degree child abuse. A parent or guardian who willfully fails to provide a child's basic needs (food, shelter, clothing), who abandons a child, or commits a reckless act which results in some physical harm to a child may be charged with fourth-degree child abuse.
"Failure to provide for the necessary needs of the child" is falls under multple types of abuses contained within federal law such as ecomonic abuse, environmental abuse, moral abuse, lack of medical care, having been reliant upon the state to protect the best interests of the child. Poverty is the crime of failure to provide for the necessary needs of the child, having then to default on the grant of custody and guardianship from the state, triggering the penal conviction which produces a judicial determination which is needed to open the federal funding spigot in Medicaid, Title IV-B and E.
Tah dah! Poverty is a crime because the state can make more money off the kid through federal funding schemes in fraudulent billing of privatized NGOs. In furtherance to the fact that poverty has been codified as the crime of child abuse, these "prior convictions" are not criminal, which means there is no due process, allowing the court to hold secret administrative, closed door, tribunals to determine how long the next decree of conviction shall be for still hailing from the targeted population of "The Poors". But, before I assign my favorite, most endearing sobriquet upon the Michigan law maker who introduced this bill, I thought I would be a bit iterative and do a few deep dives just to make sure I was parsimonious with my convictions, so I found this:
LANSING — A mid-Michigan lawmaker wants to make sure the controversial case of a man getting and then losing custody of the child that was conceived when he raped a 12-year old never happens again.
State Rep. Pam Faris, D-Clio, introduced a bill last week that would prohibit people who are convicted of third-degree criminal sexual conduct from getting custody of a child that is the product of an assault.
The bill came about after a Sanilac County judge gave twice-convicted rapist, Christopher Mirasolo joint custody of an 8-year-old boy he fathered with a 12-year-old girl in 2008.
The order, which came about because the mother was looking for child support from the father, caused an uproar in the community and caused the judge, who wasn't aware of the rape conviction when he signed the order, to reexamine the case and rescind his order.
Even though the case has been resolved and the mother will continue with sole legal custody of the child, Faris said, she doesn't want the same thing to happen to anyone else.
"This particular case fell through a lot of holes in a lot of different systems and ended up being a nightmare for this young lady and her family," Faris said. "We really don't want rapists who plead down to a lesser crime to have custody or visitation. This bill is for victims in the future. Everyone has seen the error of their ways in this case, but this woman has gone through three weeks of hell."
I see what is going on here.
This was one of those NGO opportunistic over night think tank of "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending) who came up with a way to make some money from a tragedy, using kids, so I did another deep dive.
October 17, 2017, Introduced by Reps. Lucido, Marino, Canfield, Webber, Lasinski, Frederick, Chirkun, Bizon, LaGrand, Moss, Brinks, Camilleri, Wittenberg, Chang, Ellison, Green, Sabo, Liberati, Sneller, Sowerby, Pagan, Faris, Byrd, Yaroch, Scott, Hammoud, Geiss, Elder, Greimel, Zemke, Hertel, Yanez, Jones, Rabhi and Robinson and referred to the Committee on Insurance.
SEC. 3107C. A PHYSICIAN, HOSPITAL, CLINIC, OR OTHER MEDICAL
INSTITUTION, OR OTHER PERSON, THAT PROVIDES A PRODUCT, SERVICE, OR
ACCOMMODATION FOR AN INJURED PERSON'S CARE, RECOVERY, OR
REHABILITATION IS ENTITLED TO PAYMENT OF PERSONAL PROTECTION
INSURANCE BENEFITS UNDER THIS CHAPTER ON BEHALF OF THE INJURED
PERSON.
It was at this moment I saw the model begin to emerge from the propaganda.
By enriching law to terminate parental rights, the state can then directly receive funding for providing for the best interests of the child through Medicaid, and then securing life insurance of the child under the aegis of the state to "cash in" at the most opportune attrition, whether by death, AWOL, or age out, all in the best interests of the child.
What a great way to invest in children for a profitable return in social impact bonds!
Did you know that mechanisms I have identified for poverty being a crime and the right of the state issue such penal conviction through ex parte hearings, without opportunity of facing one's accuser, being tried as guilty until proven innocent, through administrative determination, is all legal and is something I like to call the 13th Exception.
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction".
Then there is the second part of the 13 Exception:
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
Welcome to the world of UCC1, foreign nationals, shell companies and off shore accounts in child welfare.
If the principal agent, who is typically an attorney, is representing a client who has incorporated as a foreign entity through states like Delaware, actually contracting within the States, representing foreign national private investments originating from Israel, (oops, did I just say that?) or a structured NGO which just so happens to be a private contractor of child welfare services in Michigan, or, in some instances, a State agency which has filed UCC1 under the jurisdiction of international law, re-written for more privatization, there is nothing unethical nor illegal with criminalizing poverty, then of stealin' kids to make money, because indentured servitude, where the child can be emancipated at 16 or age out at 18 - 25 years of age. and slavery has nothing to do with the color of one's skin.
Ok, now you can take a breather. That was a long one! You should really see me do it as a stand up castigation routine.
The 13th Amendment is where the principal-agent theories warehoused under employment law, based upon law of chattels, or rather property law, including intellectual properties is all about who is the proper possessor of the "best interests" of think about that.
There are no appeals as the child abuse conviction proceedings have no parallel jurisprudence and one is placed on the State's Central Registry of Abuse before even being served with a court date because there are no indictments. Child welfare convictions make "duly convicted" a judicial determination made behind a closed, administrative doors of the Public Private Partnerships.
Membership into the highly, non-exclusive club called "The Poors" (always said with clinched teeth) is an act of civility, in a christian nation.
Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever. Leviticus 25:44-46.
FINDINGS: Peter Lucindo sucks and this is nothing but a real time construction for poor kids to be legally kidnapped and launch of another multi-billion dollar fraud scheme using the 13th Exception.
BRIEF SUMMARY:House Bill 4486 would amend the Michigan Penal Code to create enhanced penalties for second-, third-, or fourth-degree child abuse when the individual convicted of that crime has a prior conviction for child abuse in any degree. House Bill 4487 would place the new penalties within the sentencing guidelines. The bills would take effect 90 days after enactment.
FISCAL IMPACT:House Bill 4486 would have an indeterminate fiscal impact on state and local units of government (see Fiscal Information, below, for a more detailed discussion).
THE APPARENT PROBLEM:
Currently, except for repeat second-degree child abuse violations, no matter how many times the same person commits an act constituting child abuse, the same penalty applies. Some feel, however, that if a person commits a second act, or a third, or more, the subsequent convictions should carry a higher penalty. One incident, they reason, may be an unfortunate mistake or may lead to a person’s getting help for a problem that played a part in the wrongdoing. But when the same person either deliberately hurts a child again or continues to engage in conduct that puts a child at risk of harm, he or she should face a harsher criminal sentence.
THE CONTENT OF THE BILL:
Under current law, a person is guilty of second-degree child abuse if the person’s omission or reckless act causes serious physical or mental harm to a child; if the person knowingly or intentionally commits an act that is cruel to a child or that is likely to cause serious physical or mental harm to a child, regardless of whether harm results; or if the person intentionally violates a licensing rule for family and group child care homes under Public Act 116 of 1973 and the violation causes the death of a child. A violation is a felony punishable by up to 10 years’ imprisonment for a first offense and up to 20 years’ imprisonment for a second or subsequent offense.
A person is guilty of third-degree child abuse if the person knowingly or intentionally causes physical harm to a child or knowingly or intentionally commits an act that poses an unreasonable risk of harm or injury to a child and that results in physical harm to a child. A violation is a felony punishable by up to 2 years’ imprisonment.
A person is guilty of fourth-degree child abuse if the person’s omission or reckless act causes physical harm to a child or the person knowingly or intentionally commits an act that poses an unreasonable risk of harm or injury to a child, regardless of whether physical harm results. A violation is a misdemeanor punishable by up to 1 year’s imprisonment.
House Bill 4486 would increase the sentence that can be imposed for second-, third-, or fourth-degree child abuse if the person convicted for that crime has a prior conviction. Under the bill, “prior conviction” would mean a violation of the child abuse law (i.e., child abuse in any degree) or violation of a law of another state that substantially corresponds to the child abuse law. (The penalty for first-degree child abuse is not increased for repeat offenders under the bill because it is currently life or any term of years.)
Under the bill, second-degree child abuse with a prior conviction for child abuse in any degree would be a felony punishable by imprisonment for up to 20 years; third-degree child abuse with a prior conviction would be a felony punishable by imprisonment for up to 5 years; and fourth-degree child abuse with a prior conviction would be a felony punishable by imprisonment for up to 2 years. The bill would not change the penalty for a first violation of any of these crimes.
The bill would require a prosecutor seeking an enhanced sentence for a defendant who has 1 or more prior convictions to include on the complaint and information a statement listing the prior conviction or convictions. The court would determine, without a jury, the existence of the defendant’s prior conviction or convictions either at sentencing or at a separate hearing before sentencing. The court would base its determination on any relevant evidence, which could include a copy of the judgment of conviction; a transcript of a prior trial, plea-taking, or sentencing; information contained in a presentence report; or the defendant’s statement.
MCL 750.136b
House Bill 4487 would place the new felony penalties for third- and fourth-degree child abuse with a prior conviction within the sentencing guidelines portion of the Code of Criminal Procedure. The bill also specifies that the current penalty for repeat second-degree child abuse offenses would apply to second-degree child abuse with any prior conviction, and that the current penalty for third-degree child abuse would apply only to a first offense.
HB 4487 is tie-barred to House Bill 4486, meaning that it cannot take effect unless House Bill 4486 is also enacted.
MCL 777.16g
FISCAL INFORMATION:
House Bill 4486 would have an indeterminate fiscal impact on state and local correctional systems and on local courts. The number of people who would be convicted under provisions of the bill is unknown. The bill would likely decrease misdemeanor convictions and increase felony convictions as violations of fourth-degree child abuse shift from misdemeanors to felonies when there is a prior conviction. The bill could also result in increased sentences for second-degree and third-degree child abuse with a prior conviction.
Felony convictions would result in increased costs related to state prisons and state probation supervision. In fiscal year 2016, the average cost of prison incarceration in a state facility was roughly $36,000 per prisoner, a figure that includes various fixed administrative and operational costs. State costs for parole and felony probation supervision averaged about $3,500 per supervised offender in the same year.
By comparison, misdemeanor convictions increase costs related to county jails and/or local misdemeanor probation supervision. The costs of local incarceration in a county jail and local misdemeanor probation supervision vary by jurisdiction. The fiscal impact on local courts would depend on how provisions of the bill affected caseloads and related administrative costs.
House Bill 4487 amends sentencing guidelines and would not have a direct fiscal impact on the state or on local units of government.
ARGUMENTS:
For:
Sometimes a person does a bad thing only once. Through counseling, education, maturity, or even serving a criminal penalty, many are rehabilitated and never do that or any other bad thing again. For some crimes, especially ones that result or could result in serious injury to another person, a more stringent penalty for repeat offenses can distinguish between someone who made a mistake and someone who poses an ongoing danger to others. Some feel that the criminal penalty should be harsher for a person who commits child abuse after being convicted of the crime previously. House Bill 4486 would do just that. A prosecutor would still retain discretion over which charges to bring and judges, under the guidance of the sentencing guidelines, would retain discretion over an appropriate sentence.
Against:
No arguments were offered in opposition to the bill.
POSITIONS:
The Prosecuting Attorneys Association of Michigan (PAAM) indicated support for the bills on 10-24-17 and 10-31-17.
