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Friday, December 20, 2019

Warren Busts Human Trafficking Ring - How Many Came Out Foster Care

How many came out foster care?

Hey, when you age out foster care, ya gotta eat.



I guess Vista Maria is taking back in their former foster kids.

Warren nets 46 arrests related to human trafficking, prostitution

Warren Police Commissioner William Dwyer displays some of the 46 people arrested by the Warren Police Department’s Special Investigation Division and Special Operation Unit. The arrest are part of Operation Crusade II which focused on human trafficking prostitution and pandering.Warren — Warren police touted 46 arrests Friday in an ongoing human trafficking investigation called Operation Crusade, involving drugs and prostitution.

One “John” traveled from Manistee and the prostitutes charged in the three-day roundup range in age from 18 to 60, said Warren Police Commissioner William Dwyer. The crimes were committed in hotels and multi-unit apartment complexes in the city, investigators said.

Warren Police Commissioner William Dwyer displays some of the 46 people arrested by the Warren Police Department’s Special Investigation Division and Special Operation Unit. The arrest are part of Operation Crusade II which focused on human trafficking prostitution and pandering.

“The mayor is concerned about people coming in from outside the city, using Warren as a hub to have prostitution and drugs,” Dwyer said. “It’s just not going to be tolerated by him or myself.”

No victims of human trafficking were identified in this week’s arrests. “So far none of these prostitutes who were arrested are admitting they are victims of human trafficking but time will tell,” Dwyer said.

In the operation’s first round in May that netted 35 arrests, three victims were discovered, Dwyer said. The department has connected those women with agencies to help them recover.

This week’s arrests resulted in 20 felony charges, including transporting a prostitute, which is a 20-year felony, along with 69 misdemeanors. Dwyer said the individuals have all been arraigned.

Dwyer stressed that prostitution is illegal and charges are warranted against the women. But he also called the prostitutes victims because they’ve become addicted to drugs with the help of their pimps.

Of the 46 arrests, 25 were women. Detective Craig Bankowski said some of the women were charged in connection with transporting prostitutes.

Dwyer said they want human trafficking victims to come forward and that their investigation is ongoing.

“Let the Warren police department assist you,” Dwyer said. “Everything that is done is confidential.”

“We want to make sure victims of human trafficking are identified and treated as human beings.”

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Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Cocktails & Popcorn: Can A State Experience A Constitutional Crisis? - Michigan Child Welfare Systems Sucks

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"I claim the State of Michigan in the name of the Lord
so we can save the savages by salvaging
the children's trust funds." said the christians.
Covenant House Academy is a school for homeless kids.

They just got rid of their homeless resource officer.

UPDATE: AS OF 6-27-2019, COVENANT HOUSE ACADEMY CHANGED ITS MIND ABOUT HOW THEY TREAT HOMELESS CHILDREN AND DECIDED TO RETAIN ITS HOMELESS RESOURCE OFFICER.

Ask yourself. How come this charter school, which receives federal dollars to provide for homeless children, has a 4 year old kid realize that they are not being provided for.

Here is another young man who observed the failure of the Michigan Child Welfare System, and came up with an action.

Think about that for a moment.

This is the new privatized model planned as an expansion in the industry of trafficking tiny humans through foster care and homeless children.

How can you forecast a substantial increase in this population which is now being reclassifed as "Special Needs" along with "African Americans, English as a Second Language?

Wanna know?

EDUCATION: School Re-Segregation - Brown v. Board Of Education - A Residual Of Predictive Modeling Crap Databases Of Property Ownership & Gerrymandering


The border babies are the goods to be acquired by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in foster care.

Bethany Christian got those contracts with Samaritas.

That is All Betsy DeVos.

The christians always have a plan when it comes to a manufactured crisis, particularly when it comes to mass torture and death of "The Poors".

Those are Michigan children.

But wait! it gets even better!

Guess who is about to swoop in and save the day!

Eye Roll: Hillary Swoops In To Save 'The Children' At The Southern Border



Do you want to know what they do with all that funding? 

They are running asset forfeiture through corporate guardianship running everything out the country.

These are foreign corporations, people. 

Hello? 

Has any caught on to what they are doing? 

It is called modern day human trafficking, but in this instance, it is the industry of trafficking tiny humans through Medicaid fraud and Title I schemes.

See, there are children in need of help at the border.

There must be a plan of action, which includes a new, and improved, re-engineering of child welfare by reanimating the residuals of the peculiar institution.

Happy Residuals of the Peculiar Institution Month!


I aver that not one single argument is going to be raised about the current, complete and utter debauchery called charter schools.

Seriously, how is the Michigan Supreme Court even going to touch this when everyone and their mama is waiting for Nancy Edmunds to figure out that the Michigan Child Welfare sucks, which includes all the privatization fraud schemes going on, more than likely through SACWIS, but hey, what do I know?

I know these people are also pushing those Christian Human Plantations like Vista Maria.

RELIGIOUS LAND USE AND INSTITUTIONALIZED PERSONS ACT

Then, there are those issues with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops who just so happen to be behind all those child welfare contracts, under international scrutiny for what they do that no one really wants to talk about.

These private schools are foreign corporations.

I wonder if States Supreme Courts can experience a Constitutional Crisis?

I am going to sit back and enjoy observing all the omissions in their fallacious arguments.

Michigan Supreme Court to decide controversy over private school funding

LANSING — The Michigan Supreme Court says it will decide once and for all whether the Michigan Legislature can appropriate public money for private schools.

And in making that determination, the court will consider a 2017 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that suggests a state ban on funding for private schools could violate a U.S. constitutional provision intended to protect religious liberty.

At issue is a series of Michigan budget moves in recent years in which the GOP-controlled Legislature has appropriated millions of dollars to reimburse private schools for costs they incur to comply with state mandates, such as health and safety regulations.

In an order released Tuesday, the court said it will hear an appeal of the Michigan Court of Appeals October 2018 ruling. In that decision, the court said the Legislature may reimburse private schools for the costs to comply with state health, safety and welfare laws, but only if such costs are incidental to teaching and don't involve a key school function.

In Tuesday's order, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Markman said the court needs to resolve the longstanding issue once and for all.

"The court owes the parties, and the people of this state, a final decision in this case that fairly considers all inextricably connected issues," Markman wrote.

"The need to fully and finally resolve the present dispute has been made especially critical by the fact that it has now been nearly three years since the Legislature (first approved such funding) and since a lower court of this state issued a preliminary injunction preventing that law from taking effect."
It's important, Markman said, that "our legislative process is no longer maintained in limbo."

Justice Elizabeth Clement will not participate in the decision due to her previous role as legal counsel to former Gov. Rick Snyder, the court said.

In the 2017 case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Missouri Department of Natural Resources policy of denying grants to applicants owned or controlled by a church violated the First Amendment rights of Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia to freely exercise its religion. The policy denied the church an otherwise available public benefit on account of its religious status, the court said in a 7-2 ruling.


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Friday, January 11, 2019

Vista Maria Is Back Trafficking Tiny Humans, Institutional Style, Again

Vista Maria is back, bigger, better, and ready to tap into that Medicaid expansion money.
Vista Maria
https://www.vistamaria.org/programs/

Yes, that is correct, the Madame Maura Corrigan and Robert Young, used to sit on the Board of Vista Maria while they presided over Michigan Supreme Court Cases of Vista Maria in termination of parental rights, so you automatically know who won.

Vista Maria.

Yes, this is the exact same Vista Maria that allowed a survivor of torture, a little boy they kidnapped and doped up as a lab rat for being "too happy" and eventually dying, at least 8 times, to get dumped on the front doorsteps of this human plantation, by St. Vincent Sarah Fisher Residential Institution, which was engaged is some hard core, black hearted, nefarious trafficking of tiny humans in the name of the tax exempt god schemes, that was run by Sister Dorothy Doyle, Sisters of the Good Shepherd, who know sits on its Board of Directors.

HUMAN TRAFFICKING, INSTITUTIONAL STYLE


Vista Maria.

Yes, this is the same exact Vista Maria institution that grows its own tiny humans as a result of its human trafficking when the girls on its Dearborn campus get pregnant when they are on weekend furloughs in search of human touch and a few dollars to buy some food, or an outfit, or just both.

Vista Maria.

Yes, the same exact place where they had partnered with some law school students out of Minnesota to fly into Detroit and try to talk to foster parents to come up with another kiddie kickback fraud scheme of trafficking tiny humans to convert its Dearborn Campus into a long term, full scale, contained environment, funded through Medicaid, to keep its chattel there until the age of 25 years.

Vista Maria.

Yes, the same exact institution that has periodic rashes of rape lawsuit settlements and unreported suicides of girls who just want to go back home.

Vista Maria.

Yes, not one person has been held accountable for its long and illustrious history of human trafficking, institutional style or Medicaid fraud in child welfare.

So, I shall assume, with the help of "The Boys" Vista Maria has finally found a way to maximize its revenues and create a public legal defense campaign to cover up its pending exposure to its trafficking tiny humans operations.

I shall also assume the new State of Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has absolutely no intentions of holding any of these privatized actors of child welfare accountable because they funded her, and her rogue ass crew's 2018 campaign, and they were all mean to my Sweetie.

But, hey, what do I know.

I know it was the attorneys of Vista Maria who presented me with an apology from the Holy See when I busted them trafficking tiny humans.

On a mission...

Vista Maria Board of Directors - 2018

  • Lynn Quigley (Secretary) Retired, Ford Fund
  • Sr. Dorothy Doyle, Sisters of the Good Shepherd
  • James Bernacki (Member at Large) Comerica Bank
  • Norma Jean Evans, Cranbrook Educational Community
  • Bradley Gayton, Ford Motor Company
  • Josie Hunwick, Grant Thornton
  • Elizabeth James, Automotive Professional
  • Mary Beth Kelly, Bodman PLC
  • Paul Morris, Alix Partners
  • Patricia Pitts, Consultant
  • Jeffrey Sokolowski, Robert Half International
  • Gregory Spinazze, Wealth Strategies Partners
  • Carol Taylor, Amerisure Mutual, Insurance
  • Margaret Warner, Retired Director, Wayne County DHS
  • Mary Williams, Insurance Exchange, Agency, Inc.
  • Angela Aufdemberge, President & CEO

Vista Maria to build human trafficking stabilization center on its Dearborn campus




  • Agency to break ground this spring
  • New center will include first-of-its kind emergency intake wing, 16-bed treatment housing
  • Facility will improve and expand services for young female victims
Vista Maria plans to break ground this spring on a new human trafficking stabilization center to improve and expand services for young female victims.

Scheduled to open in early 2020, the new $4.6 million stabilization center will be located on Vista Maria's 37-acre Dearborn campus with the Aaron and Helen L. DeRoy Hall, Vista Maria's existing 16-bed treatment housing for female victims of human trafficking.

The new Aaron and Helen L. DeRoy Stabilization Treatment Center will provide residential treatment housing for up to 16 girls, doubling Vista Maria's current capacity, and a first-of-its-kind emergency intake wing to provide services for up to three rescued adolescent girls.

The small-scale trauma response center will provide physical and mental health care to young victims, with best practices gleaned from child advocacy centers and input from staff, clinical practitioners, human trafficking survivors and law enforcement.


The nearly 14,000-square-foot center will also include 16 residential beds, expanding Vista Maria's ability to provide longer-term treatment for victims.

Founded in 1883, Vista Maria provides residential therapeutic programming, foster care, transitional living for youth who have aged out of foster care and/or are homeless, and community-based education programs.

Of the 130 at-risk girls it's housing on its campus, 20


Last year, the agency served a total of 60 human trafficking victims. As one of only a few agencies contracted by the state of Michigan to provide care for adolescent female victims of human trafficking, Vista Maria gets daily referrals and takes in victims from Washtenaw, Genesee, Calhoun, Kent and Ingham counties, Aufdemberge said.

"Today I'm taking beds from children with other mental health needs, turning them away, in order to provide beds to young victims of human trafficking," she said.

Even then, the agency can only help so many victims because of capacity constraints, Aufdemberge said. Without a bed or family to return to, many girls who are rescued are taken to a shelter, "and that's not safe for them," she said.

Other girls are placed in more general treatment programs that may not address their unique needs, Aufdemberge said, noting Vista Maria has a waiting list for human trafficking victims seeking residential treatment on its campus.

Beyond increased capacity, the new center will improve the quality of care. Typically, after rescue, victims spend up to 48 hours going to law enforcement, medical and psychiatric treatment sites before they return to their families or are placed in residential treatment housing, Aufdemberge said.
"Law enforcement, medical providers and psychiatry will all come to this place where these girls are instead of them being dragged around the city," she said.

The new center will be named in recognition of a $750,000 grant from the DeRoy Testamentary Foundation. The foundation's namesakes, Aaron and Helen DeRoy, were Pittsburgh natives who moved to Detroit and founded the Aaron DeRoy Motor Car Co. in 1923 to distribute Hudson and Essex brand automobiles for the Hudson Motor Co. and to operate retail dealerships.

Vista Maria,which is operating on a $25.5 million budget for fiscal 2019, has raised $2.4 million of its projected $4.6 million cost. Other support for the project includes a $500,000 forgivable loan from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Indianapolis, $500,000 grants from the Carls Foundation and McGregor Fund and additional support from the Abhi Shah Foundation in Novi, the Washington, D.C.-based Seed Foundation, NorthRidge Church, Vista Maria board members and others.

Th new human trafficking stabilization center will fill a critical void by offering a safe, secure, centralized facility for victim care and restoration, said McGregor Fund President Kate Levin Markel.
"Building on the trauma-informed approach to care that Vista Maria has developed over many years, the center will provide services in a trauma-informed and person-centered manner, which we know to be the best approach to help victims restore their lives."

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Wednesday, October 10, 2018

U.S. Marshal Conjugal Collaboration In Recovering A Portion Of Trafficked Children In Michigan Foster Care

Kids missing in Detroit?

Nooooo......

I wonder how many were foster kids?

I wonder how many had no formal identification?

I wonder how many of these kids who were found were being billed for child welfare services by Vista Maria?

I wonder how many more they did not know about.

Look to the waters, it goes deeper.

I wonder what the candidates have to say about this...oh wait, the 2018 Primary vote has yet to be certified in Michigan.


Just goes to show you what conjugal collaborations can do.

New USMS Child Recovery Unit Recovers 123 Children During 1-Day Operation


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Detroit, MI – The U.S. Marshals Service - Detroit Missing Child Recovery Unit, U.S. Marshals Service Sex Offender Investigations Branch, Michigan State Police and law enforcement officers from Wayne County agencies participated in Operation MISafeKid, a missing juvenile sweep to identify and recover missing children from the area with an emphasis on locating victims of sex trafficking.

The one-day initiative took place Sept. 26 throughout Wayne County. The USMS DMCRU coordinated with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, HUD-OIG, Detroit Police Department and the Michigan State Police and investigated missing child case files prior to the operation. Participating officers were given the case files and began investigating their whereabouts by visiting last known addresses, friend’s homes and schools in hopes of finding them in a safe place.

Out of 301 files of missing children, 123 were identified and recovered safely during the operation. All 123 children were physically located and interviewed -- standard protocol for the Michigan State Police. All of the children located were interviewed about potentially being sexually victimized or used in a sex trafficking ring during their period of time that they were deemed missing. Three cases were identified as being possible sex trafficking cases, and one homeless teen was transported back to the command post after it was discovered that he had not had anything to eat in three days. He was then debriefed and turned over to Child Protective Services for aftercare.

This is the first time an operation of this kind has been conducted in Wayne County. USMS DMCRU was requested to assist on 30 missing child cases two weeks prior to the sweep. These cases were adopted by the U.S. Marshals Service and assigned to deputy U.S. marshals. DMCRU located and recovered nine children prior to the sweep and an additional seven during the operation. The Michigan State Police Clearing House has asked for continued assistance on the remaining 14 cases. Additionally, information was obtained by DMCRU on two missing children in Texas and one in Minnesota. DMCRU has been requested to assist on these recoveries and is actively investigating them at this time.

The Eastern District of Michigan is fully committed to assisting state and local agencies with locating and recovering missing children and the prevention of their falling victim to sex trafficking. The Detroit Missing Child Recovery Unit is tasked with investigating and recovering missing children upon request by a law enforcement agency currently attempting to locate a missing child. The message to the missing children and their families that we wish to convey is that we will never stop looking for you.

Agencies involved in the operation included the USMS Detroit DMCRU (SOIB), Michigan State Police, Allen Park Police Department, Canton Police Department, Dearborn Heights Police Department, Detroit Police Department, Detroit Public Schools Police Department, FBI, Flat Rock Police Department, Inkster Police Department, Northville Township Police Department, Plymouth Police Department, Redford Township Police Department, Riverview Police Department, Romulus Police Department, Trenton Police Department, Van Buren Township Police Department, Wayne Police Department, Wayne County Sheriff’s Department as well as the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and its Children’s Protective Services (CPS) and Vista Maria Juvenile Detention Center.

Additional information about the U.S. Marshals Service can be found at http://www.usmarshals.gov.

America’s Oldest Federal Law Enforcement Agency 



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Friday, June 15, 2018

New Canadian Study Finds Babies Are Snatched From Foster Kids

The following study looks at the cycle of Child Protective Services in Canada by examining data to see if foster kids who have babies, have their babies snatched, too.
Do I really have to tell you what they found?
I guess, I do because no one cares.
Yes, foster youth who have babies in foster care will have their parental rights terminated and the child will be put up for adoption.
These agencies have to keep operating, you know.

In the United States, it is called "red flagging".

Once you have received any form of social assistance, your generations and extended family is automatically flagged for possible removal of children, just because the individuals involved in Child Protected Services possess the innate ability to predict the future, you know.

They can predict future abuse and neglect, so if you are in foster care, under the aegis of the state, and you go and get pregnant, whether it be through rape, prostitution, or your basic human trafficking to buy something to eat for that day, your child will be automatically snatched, as the state is the de facto legal parent, and, at any time, can file to terminate parental rights, which they normally do not as the mother is already a ward of the state, and the baby is put up for adoption.

The term being adopted today for this type of human marketing is called asset forfeiture, where, if you receive social assistance, you must sign over your rights to any ownership, including the legal interests of your children.

Remember, poverty is the crime of abuse and neglect.
For my favorite example of a child welfare organization harvesting children, I use Vista Maria as my go to tool.

Vista Maria Grows Its Own Human Crops

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.



Have a great day!
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Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Bob Young & The Gang Back Together: The Michigan State University Probe

Why Bob Young sucks: Maura Corrigan
The end.
Allow me to tell the tale of why former Michigan Supreme Court Justice Bob Young, Jr. sucks.

Maura Corrigan.

The end.

Once upon a time, during the Dark Ages of Michigan in Child Welfare, I decided to begin castigating the institution that was reanimating chattel law in Michigan.

It was the Michigan Supreme Court and I just so happened to decypher their methodology which was through the propaganda of religion through corporations in the infiltration of political campaigns.


In the honor of Maternal, Paternal, and Infantile Rights of Michigan,
Amen.

Our Chief Justice, who art in Lansing,
Hallowed be thy name, Clifford Taylor.

Thy thiefdom come; thy will be done,
In Michigan, as it is not in the Constitution.

Give us our rights, of due process in the courts,
And condignly commiserate our enumerated rights;
As we condignly commiserate thine breeches of fiduciary duties;
And lead us not into judicial totalitarianism,
But deliver us onto democracy.

For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory,
Now and for thine lifetime appointment.

Amen.

Written by Beverly Tran, in the year of our Honorable Supreme Court Chief Justice, two thousand and eight

This post was the official kick off of my campaign to not re-elect Maura Corrigan.

Bob Young was on the Michigan Supreme Court, right next to his buddy, the Madame Maura Corrigan (said in a high British accent), who probably groomed him to continue the privatization of trafficking of tiny humans through databases.

Yes, Bob was the one who launched the privatization of justice in Michigan.

Bob also sat on the board of Vista Maria, along side the Madame Corrigan (said in a high British accent) while presiding over cases brought forth while they both presided on the bench, without having to disclose any vested interests (the Madame came up with this one of her catchy opinions).

Bob was also sitting on the board of Vista Maria when girls were being raped, committing unreported suicides, warehousing a little boy who was dropped off on its front steps when St. Vincent Sarah Fisher was shut down for trafficking and torturing kids, while submitting false billing to Medicaid.

Bob also sat on the board of Vista Maria while the campus was converting into a plantation baby factory to make more money maximize revenues.

I remember when the call came into DC, announcing Bob Chief Justice; I just cringed.

I still remember Bob did not do a damn thing about the trafficking of tiny humans and fraudulent billing to Medicaid in foster care and adoption in Michigan.

He did absolutely nothing...well, on second thought, allow me to retract that statement.

Bob was hanging out and making money with Engler by implementing privatization through court opinions for the stealin' of land and the votes.

Below, if the very first State Supreme Court Opinion in the nation, about Public Private Partnerships.

In a nutshell, Bob wrote the majority opinion for what used to be called the "Gang of Four". the The Madame, Bob, Our Father Clifford, and Stephen, allowing a county to condemn property for private ownership for public use.

The Opinion reinterpreted the Constitution of Michigan by taking the term, "authority" and transmogriphying it from, I guess you could lump it to say that everyone has previously understood the public authority of a county to grant the gift of custodialship & guardianship of the land, including the inversion of the same authority to terminate the grant of the gift of custodialship & guardianship of the land, through a transfer, and I am going to identify this as a Michigan Type III transfer of this authority to a private corporation, exactly what they do with parental rights.

In this instance, we are dealing with parent corporation rights.

This is the exact same thing Michigan did when it took the Michigan Children's Institute from an actual "brick and mortar" building and transmogriphied it to become a theorhetical concept.

This Opinion, written by Bob, was the first legal precedent for Public Private Partnerships, the ab initio for the "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending) over there at the Detroit Land Bank Authority to create the scheme to set up the stealin' of children, the land and the vote of Detroit, and TARP.
Even though Wayne County Land Bank ended up being able to snatch the private property by condemnation, it sold it to that Pinnacle Horse Race Track, (another tale of a fake, cover project for stealin') for $1.00 and even threw in a $26.6 million sewer system, which was eventually demolished, and is currently being set up for major industrial projects.

I do not even want to discover the cui bono, but the property was lost to delinquent property taxes, where the owner filed bankruptcy and the Wayne County Auditor General could not even follow, or find most of the records, where I am just going to go out there on a limb and say the taxes were wiped and the property was flipped.

The Chief Justice is also over SCAO, the administration of child welfare program procurement, which means I bet Bob helped advise Snyder in the Flint water poisoning.


This article, directly below, is when Bob gutted the courts in Michigan and privatized justice by having those jacked leg IT contracts come in and set up that crappy predictive modeling programs for the emerging market of Social Impact Bonds to figure out how to seize assets of "The Poors" (always said with clinched teeth) while billing federal programs.

Judicial budget targets efficiency,technology and performance

Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert Young Jr. presented the judicial branch’s FY 2015 budget request to the Michigan Legislature on March 13.

The presentation highlighted recent accomplishments in downsizing the judiciary, implementing technology and measuring performance.

Looking forward, Young targeted needed steps to implement further improvements, especially to facilitate the transition from a mainframe-based case management system to a web-based model.

“We have cut our spending, increased efficiency, reduced our size, focused on outcomes, and improved service to the public,” Young said. “Michigan’s courts are working smarter for a better Michigan.”

Young said Michigan is implementing the most dramatic downsizing in the nation with 11 trial court judgeships already eliminated–saving $1.7 million each year–and taxpayers will save $6.4 million annually when cuts are complete.

Over the past five years, the judiciary has more than doubled the number of courts that have consolidated operations.

Now, 64 counties either have consolidation plans or are developing them so that circuit, probate and district courts could share workloads, cuts costs and eliminate redundant administration. “Saving money is good, but what’s even more important is that service to the public is im - proved as courts streamline and focus on more efficient operations,” said Young.

With respect to technology, Young noted funding was needed to roll out a web-based case management system to 251 courts, representing 80 percent of the state’s caseload.

This initiative supplements the expansion of applications that improve public service, such as mobile apps, on - line payment of traffic tickets and e-filing.

He also hailed the implementation of video - conferencing that allows courts to hold hearings without the cost, loss of time and security risk involved in transporting defendants.

For example, four years ago, two percent of prisoner hearings involving the Michigan Department of Corrections were handled by video conference.

Now, 27 percent are handled using the technology, saving about $2 million annually. Young emphasized the use of performance measures, including case clearance rates, child support collections and recidivism for problem solving courts.

Bob also issued the Advisory Opinion on the requirement of voter identification.

Funny thing, there is no mention of the absentee ballot, which is how voter fraud takes place.

Community Development Corporations have voting rights and can get Community Development Block Grants.

So, what had happened was...The "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending) came up with the absolutely brilliant idea of setting up the Detroit Land Bank Authority, and vote packing through requests for absentee ballots of the properties they are now allowed to legally steal, per Bob, to rig elections.

Wayne County Clerk's Office bought the cheapest Tyler system for the largest courthouse in North America, where the Detroit Land Bank Authority was doing that "eminent domain" thang through quiet titling because they served the property address, and not the person.

So, with a click of a button and a switch of a knob, one can extract a subset of properties where they can request absentee ballots.

There is more to the story, but I will repurpose everything so it is in one tale, once indictments are unsealed.

FUN FACT! Michigan State University runs Land Bank and Child Welfare Policy for the State of Michigan.

ANOTHER FUN FACT! Bob also opined on Nestle stealin' Michigan water was okay, because no one got hurt.

ONE LAST FUN FACT: Candidates for Michigan Supreme Court are exempt from campaign finance reporting and are known for money laundering.

Well, it seems the Gang is all coming back together....now, where is Madame Maura Corrigan, (said in a high British accent).

Ex-justice Young’s role in MSU probes draws criticism

When Lisa Brown was a security guard on the night shift for Samuel-Whittar Steel’s Detroit plant, a foreman often made sexually suggestive comments to her when they were alone, she alleged in a lawsuit.

Michael Brown, who was not related to Brown, allegedly told her he enjoyed watching her from behind, and the front, and wanted to pull her long hair while having sex with her, according to court documents.

Brown complained about her co-worker’s comments at least three times to a plant manager before her co-worker followed her into a room and raped her in November 2000, she alleged.

Brown went to police and also sued Samuel-Whittar for negligent retention, a claim that an employer should have fired someone if management knew or should have known about the person’s potential for hurting someone else. The case went to the Michigan Supreme Court, but she lost in 2007, with the majority opinion written by Robert Young Jr. — then a justice of the high court who is now playing a key role in helping Michigan State University get past the Larry Nassar scandal.

Young’s opinion in the Brown case and other cases have some questioning his appointment as the lead counsel overseeing the multiple investigations and Title IX complaints involving allegations of sexual misconduct at MSU.

“Modern workplace speech is, at times, boorish and undesirable,” Young wrote in a decision that stirred controversy at the time.

In the Brown ruling, Young also wrote that Samuel-Whittar owed no obligation to Lisa Brown because it had no notice of her co-worker’s inclination to rape.

“Brown’s words were crude and highly offensive,” Young wrote. “Comments of a sexual nature do not inexorably lead to criminal sexual conduct any more than an exasperated, angry comment inexorably results in a violent criminal assault.”

John Manly, a California-based attorney representing more than 100 women who have sued MSU and other institutions in the Nassar scandal, said Michael Brown’s alleged statements to Lisa Brown were a “clear red flag for predatory behavior” but apparently not to Young.

“The issue is not with whether or not he has the right to that view as a judge. He does,” Manly said. “The issue is not whether he is a bad or immoral person. I’m sure he’s not. The issue is whether someone that so clearly and fundamentally misunderstands sexual violence should be charged by MSU in 2018 with the handling of the largest child sexual assault case in American history? I would say it sends precisely the wrong message to victims.”

Young, who served two decades on the state’s highest court, was named to his MSU post in February by interim President John Engler, who took over amidst the fallout over the scandal involving Nassar, a former MSU and USA Gymnastics doctor, who molested women and girls under the guise of a medical treatment over two decades.

Engler’s appointment of Young and several other political allies to key posts at MSU has led some observers to question the university’s commitment to changing the culture that allowed Nassar’s abuse to go unchecked for so long. Many students and faculty don’t think the university is on the right path under Engler.

But MSU officials said Young’s experience, which includes two decades on the Michigan Supreme Court, makes him the right person to lead the university’s legal response to sexual assault investigations.

“Former Chief Justice Bob Young is exactly what we need right now at MSU to help the university through the various investigations and to fulfill our commitments to the survivors,” said Emily Guerrant, an MSU spokeswoman. “His extensive legal and judicial resume speaks for itself. He is also a former board member of Vista Maria, an organization that provides resources to hundreds of women and children who have suffered the effects of abuse, neglect and trauma; as well as Central Michigan University. This combination of judicial, higher education and advocacy experience is helpful to our staff as we navigate through the coming year.”

Asked how Young can change MSU’s culture, Guerrant said Young is not an MSU employee. Rather, he is assisting the MSU Legal Team with the litigation resulting from Nassar’s misconduct.
“It’s not a full-time, nor a permanent position,” Guerrant said. “We believe Mr. Young has the right credentials to help us through those projects.”

Young, who offered the university a 10 percent discount on his $640 hourly fee, did not respond to requests for comment.

Criticism of Young’s MSU post come as perceptions of how the university is handling the sexual abuse scandal spawned by Nassar seems to be getting worse, from the indictment of former MSU Osteopathic Medical School Dean William Strampel to the alleged tracking of Nassar survivors on social media by a public relations firm hired by MSU.

Michigan State is facing more than 250 civil lawsuits from Nassar survivors, in which the university recently agreed to return to mediation. MSU also faces numerous investigations, including ones launched by the Michigan attorney general, the U.S. Education Department, the NCAA and Congress.

The Samuel-Whittar case isn’t the only instance where Young decided a legal dispute involving sexual misconduct.

In one 2000 case, Young and the court’s majority ruled that the operator of a drop-in center for adults with mental or emotional disabilities was not liable despite retaining an employee who had previously been convicted of molesting a woman with mental disabilities.

The employee, Gerald Flagle, possessed keys to the facility, and that gave him an opportunity to engage in sexual activity with a developmentally disabled woman, according to court documents.

“How can the university’s commitment to Title IX compliance be taken seriously when run by a man who has proven to have zero understanding about sexual assault, sexual predators, enabling behavior and the devastating impact on its victims?” Manly said.

Additionally, Michigan State and USA Gymnastics have cited cases authored by Young to support legal arguments to dismiss the civil lawsuits, according to an analysis by colleagues working with Manly.

USAG noted Young’s opinion in the Brown vs. Brown decision when it filed a motions to dismiss the suits against it.

Michigan State also cited several cases, including a 2002 ruling written by Young, in its arguments to dismiss the suits against the university, saying that MSU, as a public entity, is entitled to governmental immunity.

In that case, retired Detroit Police Lt. Linda Mack sued the city for discrimination based on her gender and sexual orientation after she complained that male supervisors had propositioned her for sex while she was working in the sex crimes unit, court records show.

After Mack’s complaint, no action was taken against the supervisors, allegedly because she is a lesbian, according to her lawsuit. She was relegated to an afternoon desk job, taken off investigative work, and not allowed to take off more than two weekends each month, her suit alleged.
Mack alleged intentional infliction of emotional duress and violations of the city charter, which prohibited discrimination based on gender and sexual orientation, court documents show. But the city moved for summary disposition, arguing Mack’s claims were barred by governmental immunity and that the city charter did not give her a cause of action.

“Because the plaintiff failed to plead a recognized claim in avoidance of government immunity, her sexual orientation discrimination claim should have been dismissed,” the Supreme Court opinion stated. “Government immunity is a characteristic of government and this plaintiff must plead her case in avoidance of immunity.”

While the GTLA allows suit against a government agency in five areas, the opinion states that none can allow suit for sexual orientation.

MSU, in its motion to dismiss, cited the Mack case, stating that government immunity “is a characteristic of government.”

“This means that MSU is entitled to a presumption of immunity,” the motion stated.
Besides Manly, others concerned about Young’s MSU appointment include Kalamazoo resident Sterling Riethman, who was among Nassar’s victims.

“Having Young, or someone with Young’s track record anywhere near these investigations, is a clear sign they have zero regard for our well-being,” said Riethman. “Engler has asked us to trust him and yet none of his actions have shown any sort of semblance to being survivor-focused, or even survivor-conscious.”

Rachael Denhollander, the woman who first spoke out against Nassar, also is alarmed about Young’s role at MSU. She said he has “an absolutely abhorrent track record as a judge, on the specific issue of sexual assault.”

“At every turn, MSU and Engler have appointed political insiders who have a consistent record of being part of the culture of abuse,” said Denhollander, an attorney. “This is not change. This is not transparency. This is institutional protectionism, and it should deeply concern every citizen whose money is being used to fund a university that oversaw the greatest sexual assault scandal in sport and campus history. Especially when this university, at every chance to make real change, runs in the opposite direction.”

Robert P. Young
Age: 66
Born: Des Moines, Iowa; raised in Detroit
Political party: Republican
Education:
High school: Detroit Country Day
College: Harvard University (BA, JD)
Legal offices:
Associate Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court: 1998-2017
Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court: 2011-17

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Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Michigan May Have 'Cash For Kids' Scams

Is it just me or does something sound hauntingly familiar, here.

It was only a while ago when the Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission took action of a judge regarding children being questionably placed, in a contained environment, called Children's Village because they refused to have lunch with their father.

Then, you have another national case where it seems, almost identical medical issues, and the state removes the child then accuses the parents of not only providing medical instruction for surgery, but was able to get the insurance company to pay for the procedures.

So instead of going after the doctors who engaged in medical malpractice, supposedly, Michigan is going after the  mother for medical neglect.

And of course, everyone remembers the "Kids for Cash" case where the judge was sending youth to a facility which used to get him kickbacks.

Youth may stay under the auspices of the state until the age of 25 in certain situations, such as this one, with costs reimbursed, at some of the maximum rates. through Medicaid.

Children's Village looks like it may have found a new population from which to profit: older youth.

Of course, the Attorney General can not even investigate Children's Village as it is already representing them in the Child Protective Services case, and layer that fact with the recent policy changes where these state contracted child placing agencies are now, on "self-report" as an end result of deregulation.

I also know for a fact that The Children's Center of Detroit is preparing to expand its operations and get into the education programming and community-based, home-based services under the Medicaid Expansions.

I also heard Vista Maria has been constructing its new child welfare model by making the campus a contained environment for their kids who have kids, like a miniature city, to treat cognitive and psychological developmental challenges.

Since there is a national call for new models in dealing with child welfare, there also needs to be a balance in how these organizations operate.

There are no civil rights in child welfare, just remember that.

Mom says CPS took her daughter because of medical mystery


BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. (WXYZ) - A Bloomfield Hills mom says her daughter was “medically kidnapped.”

Child Protective Services has forced 17-year-old Leiani McMichael to live in Oakland County’s Children’s Village. CPS is accusing mom of failing to give her proper medical care.

Rebecca Campos says as her daughter Leiani enjoyed a music lesson at her house in early November, she saw Child Protective Services workers walking up to her home.

She had to tell her daughter they were there to take her.

“She said, ‘Take me? What does that mean mom?' I said, 'I don’t know,’” said Rebecca.

Rebecca says the terrifying thing is that she still doesn’t know what it means.

“Up until February 2015, Leiani was completely healthy, an amazing, thriving child,” said Rebecca.
The now 17-year old started complaining. Her stomach hurt. Doctors then diagnosed her with hernias, cysts, and removed her appendix. When she couldn’t keep food down, they gave her a feeding tube.

“Nobody could answer. Nobody knew why it got so extreme that a feeding tube had to be in place,” said Rebecca.

Then there was a problem with the feeding tube as Leiani visited her father who lives in California. Leiani needed surgery.

"After surgery Leiani didn’t wake up. She went into a coma,” said Rebecca.

She remained unconscious for days. When she did finally wake up, mom says Leiani was weak, needed a wheelchair, had memory problems and started having seizures.

She took her to doctor after doctor searching for answers. Then, one doctor at the University of Michigan diagnosed her with conversion disorder. The doctor said Leiani didn’t need a feeding tube or a wheelchair. The problem was in her head.

"I said okay,” said Rebecca  “How do we fix this?”

The doctor at the University of Michigan contacted CPS. She said abuse could have caused the possible conversion disorder. Rebecca says different doctors disagreed. She says as she tried to figure it out, CPS showed up.

“I miss her so much,” said Rebecca, who hasn’t been allowed to even have a supervised conversation over the phone with her daughter.

Documents filed by prosecutors say, “Numerous physicians have performed unnecessary surgeries, diagnostic procedures, and other medical treatment based upon the parent's false or exaggerated reports.”

Court documents claim Leiani’s health is improving now that she is in the care of Children’s Village. She is having fewer “episodes” that her mother called seizures.

“Leiani was previously wheelchair bound. Leiani is now standing and taking steps. Leiani was previously on a feeding tube and would spit out table food, despite being viewed eating food at ties with no problems, when unaware of observation. Since removal, Leiani has kept food down, such as bread and a cookie,” says a document filed by the Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office.

Leiani’s mom says her daughter has been showing improvement since coming out of the coma.  She was walking and eating what she could while at home as well.

She now is hoping a trial next month will prove her innocence and reunite her with her daughter.
“I have never done anything to make her sick, and I always have done my best,” said Rebecca. 

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