The Tale Of Detroit Motor City Match & The Michigan Children's Trust Fund

Motor City Match lies.

Motor City Match runs money.

Just ask Goldman Sachs.

They run fake taxes.

They run fake foreclosures.

Then they say through a Corporate Shape Shifter, "Whoops, my bad. Wanna contact?"

But hey, what do I know?

I know this is an historic district.

I know this is how you fund those crafty, grassroots campaigns, for election purposes, only, of course.

The Detroit Land Bank Authority was all up in the historic districts, which were not part of the Hardest Hit Funds.

The Detroit Land Bank Authority swooped up everything, in a psychotic frenzy of severely, ethically distorted existences, or better known as "Legal Geniuses, (trademark pending)".

To my dearest generals of pens and swords, I pray thee look upon the Michigan Children's Trust Board Members.

Sssssshhh.....you did not hear that from me so do not tell anyone I told you to look into District 7 and da church-ez. Sssssshhhhhh.......

Feds review Motor City Match over documentation, low-income assistance

Detroit — A city program designed to support entrepreneurs and championed by Mayor Mike Duggan is under federal review over its record keeping and whether funds were used appropriately.

The city suspended use of federal funds for the Motor City Match program after being requested to do so last month by the Housing and Urban Development Department until city officials address its findings that suggest the program was not adequately targeting low- to moderate income areas.

That September report followed the agency’s May 2018 monitoring of the city’s Community Development Block Grant records.

“I’m confident we’re going to satisfy HUD’s request,” said Arthur Jemison, the city's chief of services and infrastructure.

HUD will analyze the city’s response before determining the eligibility or appropriateness of Detroit's use of the funds, said Jim Cunningham, deputy regional administrator of HUD's regional office based in Chicago.

“While HUD does not want to speculate on any outcomes in this situation, the goal is to achieve compliance in the city’s administration of its CDBG program,” he said. “HUD has various methods of corrective actions for non-compliance with CDBG program rules and regulations and will take appropriate corrective actions when program violations are found.”

Michael Polsinelli, HUD field office director for the state of Michigan, said the review is not considered an investigation at this point.

"It has not risen to that level," he said.

To date, the city said it has funded $7 million to businesses through the program, resulting in 57 opened businesses and 85 others in various stages of development.

Duggan launched the Motor City Match program in 2015 to jump-start entrepreneurship in the city. The program was heralded by then-Vice President Joe Biden in January 2017, who said small businesses were central in sustaining Detroit growth.

“Motor City Match is doing that,” said the vice president, noting Duggan was the visionary who moved the program forward.

The program is funded through federal Community Development Block Grant dollars. The city provides the CDBG funds to the Economic Development Corp. to carry out Motor City Match's activities by providing financial and technical assistance to potential and existing small businesses.

In May 2018, HUD conducted what it calls routine monitoring of the city’s CDBG funding to ensure it was complying with eligibility and national objective requirements. Prior to that, the last monitoring was in 2015, according to HUD. Among the programs monitored was Motor City Match.

In the fall, HUD issued the report showing there were insufficient records to support Motor City Match program activities met an objective to target low-to-moderate income areas.

A second finding showed the city lacked records to show economic development underwriting and public benefit standard requirements for the program. According to HUD, the city also provided CDBG funds directly to for-profits without performing required financial underwriting.

The city responded the Motor City Match assistance was exempt from the requirements because for-profits qualified under the CDBG regulations as "microenterprise" businesses.

HUD said in its finding that while that may be the case, the city did not maintain records it should qualify for assistance under CDBG regulations.

In a third finding, HUD said that the city did not maintain sufficient oversight to ensure costs complied with CDBG-eligible activity.

Among other cited deficiencies were that staffers worked both on CDBG-eligible and non-CDBG eligible activities and records were not maintained to document 100% of the employees' time. Only time spent on the Motor City Match program was documented. Also under review is a March 2017 payment for $153,000. HUD said only $20,000 of the total was directly tied to assisting 10 businesses. The rest was used for administration, project assessment and outreach and engagement.

"Most of the costs billed to CDBG were not distributed directly to a business," according to HUD. "Therefore, it's not clear if the costs were necessary, reasonable, or allowable for the provision of assistance to a private for-profit business."

Donald Rencher, director of Detroit's Housing and Revitalization Department, said his department has started to provide responses to HUD's findings.

“We’ve been working through that monitoring report and how we’ve actually taken documentation and provide evidence of invoices,” he said.

The city has requested until Dec. 15 to give a final response. HUD is evaluating the city’s extension request, Cunningham said.

As the city works with HUD to address the report findings, city officials said this week they plan to request by the end of July a vendor to help the city administer the program. The city also hopes to shift the focus of the program to business expansion and technical assistance.

City officials said they met with HUD officials this month and will again in about two weeks to address their concerns.

They also plan to continue the Motor City Match program beyond its initial five-year run while working to address HUD's concerns regarding its record keeping and use of funds.

In March, the City Council approved the Housing and Revitalization Department's request for $800,000 in funding for the Motor City Match program from its general fund. The plan is to continue the program with a mix of CDBG funds and general fund dollars, Jemison said.

Motor City Match is the latest cornerstone initiative of the Duggan administration to come under federal scrutiny in recent years.

The city’s massive blight elimination program remains at the center of a federal criminal investigation after concerns were raised in 2015 over bidding practices and soaring costs. The program also has been the subject of state and local audits and reviews.

In April, federal prosecutors unsealed criminal charges against two people — a former employee of a prominent demolition contractor and an ex-building authority employee — accused of accepting hundreds of thousands in bribes and rigging bids to demolish homes in the city.

The Department of Justice at the time also said it did not expect to bring any more charges against public officials for wrongdoing in the demolition program.

Meanwhile, Duggan’s ties to a program run by Wayne State University and the prospect of preferential treatment are the subject of a probe launched this spring by Detroit’s Office of Inspector General.

The office opened an investigation on April 5 to determine whether Duggan and city officials potentially “abused their authority” by providing preferential treatment to Make Your Date, a program dedicated to preventing premature births.

Detroit Motor City Match Grant Award 9-28-2016 by Beverly Tran on Scribd

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Cocktails & Popcorn: The Culture Of Child Welfare Fraud In Detroit - Trafficking Tiny Humans In The "Church-ez"

This is just the culture in the Detroit child welfare legal community.

They just do not give a flying rats arse on anything but themselves because that is how you get elected to the promised land.

Selling chattel is the oldest form of survival.

This is the transposable model of the "Church-ez" in Detroit, with the dream of one day owning your own kingdom of the Mega church, a Bush operation.

Bush was mean to my Sweetie....very, very, very mean.....

George Bush was the one behind Faith Based Funding and his father was the one behind Privatization and it all started in Detroit.

This was a free crib give away for a Detroit infant mortality
program to promote a MotorCity Makeover grant for the
Detroit Land Bank Authority building they sold,
but took back the award, then tried to have a quick and dirty
special committee asset seizure on back taxes,
even though there was a quiet title. So, they made up for being bad
by ascending the pastor et al in the community with an appointment to
the Michigan Children's Trust Fund Board.
This political campaign event, sponsored by the City of Detroit,
 taught pregnant women about healthy eating while
being served COSTCO honey buns and
getting contracts to rehab more city property.

It was always about the ability to control a flock, just a residual of the peculiar institution.

Flocks are databases that you can do predictive modeling crap to map out implementation of Social Impact Bonds like "Make Your Date".

If you are really ambitious, you can participate in absentee ballot fraud schemes, too.

The women rise up through the churches into positions of power in their clubs.

Lots of their clubs are sponsored by foreign organizations.

If you run your club to successfully capture your audience with their propaganda, the matriarchs ascend to be gifted and lifted queens into the world of "getting their hair and nails did" all the time.

Another self-agrandiose
Detroit child welfare preaching to the choir event

No one has ever discussed the power structure of the women in the Detroit churches because they will sell their souls for some fame and fortune, which means that "The Lord" has blessed them, and all those with a black hat, war torn clothing and a tech backpack, are of moral turpitude, for these Queens now rule over the communities of "The Poors" and you must follow or be banished from the Kingdom of Detroit, for they know everything because they got a big fat wad of cash to go shopping for their crowns of conspicuous consumption to prove it.

Yes, Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Faith Based Funding, your federal tax dollars at work.

We are finally entering into the Kingdom of the Meanies.

This is a very special Kingdom because it is Detroit and it has lots and lots of Mini Kingdoms the likes of the corner store church, right next to the corner liquor store.

Another christian child welfare corporate parental rights spokestoken

Salvaging the souls and saving the savages is a time honored model in trafficking tiny humans.

If you are not from Detroit, shut up, because any commentary will just make you look stupid, because you know nothing, because if you did, you would have to #sayhisname.

Everyone should show up for the "Save out Children" event, June 23, 2019, because Tracey is the key note speaker and this is Faith Based Funded, public dollars, so you can ask her anything while you record who show up and listen to next plotting and scheming event to market.

These events are where the Queens come out in full regalia, in their own christian heraldry.

Mamie King Chalmers,
Survivor of the Birmingham Church Bombing
Birmingham Children's March

There are even the Moors and their transposable models.

Then there is the foreign funding, yes, that is when you know you have made it to the crystal chandeliers and real table cloth events, with volunteer servers, too!

The "Church-ez" in Detroit have an entire network and many of their operations are foreign corporations.

Seriously.

The "Church-ez" have absolutely no clue of what is going on with their financial interests because there is always another dinner event to shop their christian spiritual wares for political campaigns.

Tracey is one of them.

Everyone should look at this Court because they are all owned.

It is just the Faith Based Funding model and this is the Detroit network, which just so happens to be international, where they can make or break you, for the right Detroit Land Bank Authority property or foreign NGO community grant...campaign fundraiser price.

Yes, Detroit, There Is A Child Welfare Fraud Network

“There's a network," Wilbourn-Snapp said. "It's so deep.”

#Time2AuditGod

Do not ask her about child welfare fraud because she is ascending the ranks with her crown in tow.

Wayne County family court judge accused of helping cover up child abuse of own grandson

DETROIT (FOX 2) - A Wayne County family court judge is being accused of helping her son cover up abuse of her grandson - but she says none of it's true.

Tracy Green is a judge at the Wayne County Family Court. Her job is to determine whether children are being abused and to protect them. Her grandson says she not only ignored how her son - who is his father - beat his kids, he says she covered it up.

"My dad would tell her about a bruise I had or something, and she'd put make-up on it 'cause we had to go to school and stuff and she didn't want people to see," her grandson said.

The young boy, who FOX 2 is not naming, says Green would put the makeup on him in her upstairs bathroom.

Green denies the allegations entirely.

"I didn't put makeup on any bruises, conceal any abuse, that is utterly preposterous," Green said. "It just didn't happen."

Green, an experienced family court lawyer, was running for judge last summer when a disturbance at her son's home prompted neighbors to call 911.

The following is a portion of the 911 call made last summer:

"He was beating his kids like, I'm talking about, he's been beating them for like 45 minutes. And this is like beyond a whooping. He was over there screaming and telling them, like, how he blacked their mama's eyes, he would kill everybody," the caller said.

A second caller said the ruckus interrupted her slumber:

"Woke me up out my sleep he was beating these kids so bad."

When Detroit Police and Child Protective Services workers arrived, they found a house in chaos. Green's son, Gary Davis-Headd, admitted that he hit his then 8 and 10-year-old sons with a belt.

Where fraud is a forbidden word to be spoken

The beating was so severe, CPS removed the boys and three other children from Davis-Headd's home. Over the next few months, the boys and their siblings told child welfare workers and testified in court that their dad turned their cramped home into a house of horrors. 

Both boys spoke with FOX 2 with their mom present. The younger boy, who is now 9, described what life was like in his dad’s house.

"It was bad and difficult," he said. "We weren't getting fed right and stuff and we got beat."

In interviews with child welfare workers and on the witness stand, the boys and their siblings described how their father ordered the boys to strip down to their shorts, kneel down, then stick their face in a pillow to muffle their cries as he whipped them with a belt.

The children and their stepmother also told investigators and testified that their father once choked out their stepmother until she passed out. The children said they thought she was dead, until their father splashed water on her face.

Davis-Headd denied beating his wife, but acknowledged what he called "spanking" the boys - and even his young daughter - with a belt. He denied abusing them, however, and explained that he was administering appropriate discipline.

In March, after deliberating for less than an hour, a Wayne County Family Court jury found him guilty of neglect and said he put them at substantial risk of harm to their mental well-being and was unfit to care for them.

The judge said he found Davis-Headd's testimony to be "appalling and abhorrent" and that Davis-Head demonstrated "a complete an utter inability to understand parenting at all."

The judge concluded that "by clear and convincing evidence" Davis-Headd "abused the children" and "there is a reasonable likelihood that the children will be harmed if returned" to him.

Green, who became a judge in the same courthouse earlier this year, doesn't agree.

"Obviously, I love him. He's my son and he's a decent person. He's certainly not without his challenges and beyond that I can't really get into a lot of opining, because there's open litigation concerning him. I'd like to, but I'm bridled in that way," Green said.

Because she's a judge, Green is bound by rules that prevent her from speaking as freely as she would like. She can, however, address matters that came up in court. That's good because the investigation into her son raises questions about what she knew - and when.

Her eldest grandson not only testified that Green used makeup to hide his bruises, he testified that he had been telling her since 2016 that his father was beating him. What follows is some of what he said on the witness stand:

"Like almost every time I saw her, I told her. I told her about the time he choked her (his step-mom). I told her about the times he beat us that I remember. I don't remember too much now. I told her about most everything.

"I told his mom, my grandmother." 

Attorney: "Your grandmother Tracy?" 

Boy: "Yes."

Later on in his testimony, he says nobody ever tried to help him, including her.

"She never helped us," he said.

Green said it was painful to hear her grandson say that, but added it's not true.

"It's not truthful at all," Green said. "I have some opinions, but it wouldn't be appropriate for me to give them to you because of pending litigation." 

Her oldest grandson initially told child welfare workers that his stepmother put makeup on his face to cover up his bruises. When FOX 2 asked him to clear up the contradiction in what he told welfare workers and what he testified to, he said both his stepmother and grandmother used makeup to conceal his injuries.

Davis-Headd's attorney tried arguing in court that the boys were not truthful and had been coached by their mother, Choree Bressler, who does not get along with their father or judge Green.

The eldest grandson testified: "Nobody told me what to say. All my mom said was, 'just tell the truth.'"

A child welfare worker reported that Green told her she once heard her son yelling at one of her grandsons, heard a slapping sound, and saw a handprint on the boy's face. That would suggest that she had some awareness that her grandkids were being hit.

"It certainly would suggest, but regarding the comments that are attributed to me, I never said that. Not even anything close to that," Green said.

Green was called as a witness in her son's custody case. When asked about that report, she acknowledged seeing a handprint on her grandson's face - and denied the rest.

When the prosecutor asked Judge Green if she remembered telling a child welfare worker that she had spoken with her son "about how he disciplined the children," she said: "I don't specifically remember that, but I don't dispute it."

She also testified that the children told her they were spanked, but she never asked what that meant.

She also testified, under oath, that she did not use makeup to cover any bruises.

FOX 2: "There are people who would say that if these kids were beaten so badly and so regularly and left with so many marks, how did someone with your pedigree miss it?"

Green: "Well, I think the assumption there is that, what you just said is true."

The possibility that a judge may have lied under oath is the kind of thing that might interest the Judicial Tenure Commission, which polices judges. Fox 2 described the situation to Peter Henning, an expert on judicial ethics at the Wayne State University School of Law, who said:

"She has an obligation to tell the truth. If there's any issues with regard to her not telling the truth, the Judicial Tenure Commission is going to be very interested in that, because that could effectively be thwarting what the family court would be doing."

Currently, only her grandson is accusing Green of a cover-up, but the case against her son raises concerns because it transcends one family's tragic story.

Green says the people of Wayne County can count on her to protect their kids.

"I am certainly capable of protecting children from my perch as a Third Circuit Court judge," she said. "There's nothing that I have done or would ever do that would jeopardize the safety of any child - particularly a child that I love.

"And what I'm saying to you Mr. Elrick, is that I've done nothing wrong, I've not failed to do something that I should have done. And that's the bottom line."

As for Davis-Headd, he's got more legal problems as he's facing criminal charges of child abuse and domestic violence. He pleaded not guilty to those charges and is scheduled to go on trial next month.

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Cocktails & Popcorn: Brenda Jones Is Going To Meet Paul Ryan In D.C. - Congress Forgot To Pass The Special Election Resolution

On this exciting episode of Cocktails & Popcorn, Nancy Pelosi has been nominated Speaker of the House for the 116th Congress with Hakeem Jeffries as the Congressional Caucus Chair.

Pelosi Wins Democratic Caucus Nomination for Speaker

Hakeem Jeffries Wins Democratic Caucus Chair Race Against Barbara Lee

Now, what exactly does that mean for Detroit?

Let us begin with the City of Detroit Election Commission.

Detroit Election Commission

The Detroit Election Commission consists of the City Clerk, Janice Winfrey, Corporate Counsel, Larry Garcia, and the Mayor Pro Tem, Brenda Jones, who just so happened to be a Democratic Candidate for the 13th Congressional District Special Election.

Brenda won but the Primary Election was so jacked.

Really jacked.

I mean jacked beyond belief.

The Primary Election was so jacked the Wayne County Board of Canvassers had to pass it off the State Board of Canvassers who has yet, as of this posting, to certify and record the Primary Election of 2018.

The following is a complaint by a 2018 Primary Election worker, Yvonne Cross, to Janice Winfrey on the fraud that took place on her watch.

Detroit Election Commission... by on Scribd

Janice told Yvonne that she was to come testify in front of the Detroit Election Commission, but the day of the hearing, she told Yvonne that it was cancelled and that her complaint would be sent to the State Board of Canvassers where she would testify in Lansing.

But that never happened.

So, I am posting Yvonne's complaint so the public can learn what went on in her precincts, oh, and also to let the public know that the Detroit Election Commission threw her complaint in the trash.

Now, you understand why the Primary Election, including the Special Election, could never, ever be certified, but it was.

Wayne County Board of Canvassers

Jonathon Kinloch presides as chair of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers.

MINUTES OF MEETING WAYNE COUNTY BOARD OF CANVASSERS 2018 Primary Election Certification 8-21-2018 by Beverly Tran on Scribd

Wayne County Clerk has no record
of my vote for the 2018 Primary
and Special Elections.

The vote was never certified because it never addressed any of the Primary Election, including the Special Election complaints, or irregularities, as witnessed above.

As a matter of fact, I can prove my vote and the majority of the vote of my Precinct were not counted.

Kinloch certified the 2018 Primary Election but not the Special Election because there is no report and it was deferred to the Michigan Secretary of State Board of Canvassers.

Michigan Secretary of State Board of Canvassers

These are the members of the State Board of Canvassers:

Chair: Norman D. Shinkle - Republican
Vice-Chair: Julie Matuzak - Democrat
Jeannette Bradshaw - Democrat
Colleen Pero - Republican


Jeannette Bradshaw was not in attendance for the certification of the 2018 Primary & Special Elections.

Her absence was wise because the certification and recording of the vote becomes partisan, and that is never a good thing, particularly when dealing with such a historic and litigious action.

The 2018 Special Election was never certified nor recorded, because the Wayne County and Michigan Board of Canvassers never certified nor recorded the vote for the 13th Congressional District.

So, if the 13th Congressional District Special Election was never certified, nor recorded, that would mean that the rest of the Primary Elections could not be certified.

Michigan Board of Canvassers Certification of Wayne County 2018 Special Election Minutes 08-24-18 by Beverly Tran on Scribd

So, this takes us to the next lever for certification of the vote.

The U.S. Speaker of the House

Paul Ryan, U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives115th Congress

Paul Ryan is the U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives for the 115th Congress.

How can Paul Ryan

Paul Ryan was mean to my Sweetie.

Nancy Pelosi was mean to my Sweetie.

Paul Ryan and Nancy Pelosi are going to be mean to my Sweetie, again.

How Congress can pass a special resolution enter the recording of the certification of the 2018 Special Election if it was never certified?

http://clerk.house.gov/floorsummary/floor.aspx

NOTE TO SELF: PULL H.R. 1161 ONCE THE INK DRIES FROM THE HOPPER

How is Paul going to swear in Brenda if there is not even a vote count for the 2018 Special Election?

How is Nancy going to swear in Rashida Tlaib in the 116th Congress when the 2018 elections were so jacked up?

It does not matter because Hakeem Jeffries now possesses the powers to initiate expulsion.

But hey, what do I know

I know that you need to get popcorn.

We are dealing with "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending) so you are definitely going to need cocktails for this one, too.

Jones to be sworn into Congress after deal reached

Washington — Democrat Brenda Jones is expected to become Michigan's newest congresswoman when she takes the oath of office Thursday after U.S. House leaders reached a deal on seating her. 

It is the first time Michigan's 13th District will have representation in the U.S. House in nearly a year, since the resignation of former Rep. John Conyers Jr. last December.

Jones, 59, of Detroit will only serve a matter of weeks until January after winning a special election this month to finish out Conyers' term. She lost her bid to replace Conyers next year to former state Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Detroit.

House Speaker Paul Ryan had delayed seating Jones in part because she has not stepped down from her position as president of Detroit City Council, and there's no precedent for an individual to serve in the U.S. House while holding locally elected office.

“The House had a precedent dating from 1909 that made clear that service as both a member of Congress and a state or local official were not compatible. However, Ms. Jones was duly elected by the constituents of the 13th District of Michigan," Ryan spokeswoman AshLee Strong said Thursday.

"Ms. Jones has written the speaker and indicated that she will abide by guidance from the Ethics Committee to minimize the conflict between her service as a member and her duties on the Detroit City Council during the short time she’s here. The House will carve out a narrow exception to the 1909 precedent."

Prior to the administration of the oath around noon Thursday, the House is expected to adopt a resolution authorizing Ryan as speaker to swear in Jones, effectively creating an exception to the earlier precedent.

Under the deal between Ryan and Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, Jones may accept no pay from Detroit's council and participate in no council votes while serving in Congress — conditions advised by counsel to the House Ethics Committee and which Jones previously attested to.

Ryan's office had previously warned that any House member could have objected to Jones holding two offices, at which point the matter would have been referred to the House Committee on Administration. 

While the Constitution doesn't prohibit members from simultaneously holding state or local office, the House has historically taken the position that "high state office is incompatible with congressional membership," as stated in the House Ethics Manual.

But Jones this week released a copy of the unofficial opinion provided by counsel for the House Ethics Committee that said her position with Detroit City Council "does not appear to be incompatible" with her potential position in the U.S. House.

The Ethics Committee counsel said Jones' dual office-holding is only compatible given the "very limited time" Jones would be representing Michigan; given that she does not accept compensation from the council (including back pay); and given the council remains in recess during her term in Congress.

The opinion gave the example of a mayorship that overlapped three days with a House position and was not considered an incompatible office by the Ethics Committee when the House member did not accept pay for the mayoral position and recused from all work on behalf of the city for that time. 

The House precedent from 1909 that Strong referred to relates to GOP Rep. George L. Lilley, who was sworn in as governor of Connecticut without resigning his House seat.

In Lilley's case, the Judiciary Committee determined that serving as governor and congressman to be incompatible and recommended vacating the office and removing Lilley's name from the clerk's rolls. The House later agreed to a resolution to that effect. 

Jones' brief stint in the House will likely be among the shortest in history but won't set a record.  

That distinction belongs to George Sheridan and Effingham Lawrence of Louisiana, who both served for one day only on March 3, 1875 — the final day of the 43rd Congress.

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