Michigan Legislature Blackmailed MSU Trustees To Hire John Engler Who Has Resigned

My interest would be to identify those Michigan Legislators who blackmailed the MSU Trustees, and if the Legislators who made the threats were compromised, themselves, then find out what they said, following it up by inquiring why no one said or did anything about it, or did they.

Running a state through threats is that monarchy stuff.

The board had two possibilities — former Michigan Gov. John Engler, a Republican, and former Michigan Gov. Jim Blanchard, a Democrat. Both were alumni with long ties to the school. But the state Legislature, then controlled by Republicans, made it clear to MSU — hire Engler or get ready to lose millions of dollars in state aid. Lansing State Journal, 1.16.2019

John Engler is currently battling the demons being summoned from his tenure at the helms of the State of Michigan.

John Engler is the father of privatization who has breech the children's trust, which is treason, because he raided the Michigan Treasury for the benefit of himself and the Privateers, in the name of the tax exempt god.

I always keep my vows.

On a mission...

John Engler resigns as Michigan State University interim president

After a controversial year in office, MSU Interim President John Engler resigned on Wednesday, sending an 11-page resignation letter to the school's board shortly after 6 p.m.

"In compliance with your request that I resign & in order to ensure an orderly transition to my interim successor, I hereby resign the office of President of Michigan State University effective 9 am, Wednesday, January 23," the letter started. "It has been an honor to serve my beloved university."

The move came hours after the board set a special meeting for early Thursday morning with the intent to fire him, the sources said. The timing of the resignation was uncertain, with details still being worked out.

Engler has been under heavy criticism for the past year, since he took over for Lou Anna Simon, who herself resigned under heavy criticism for her handling of the Larry Nassar sexual assaults scandal.

After setting the board meeting for 8 a.m. Thursday, board chairwoman Dianne Byrum told Engler the board would like him to resign or it would fire him, the sources said.

Engler and MSU spokeswoman Emily Guerrant did not return requests for comment.

Board members are expected to name a replacement for Engler during the Thursday meeting, sources told the Free Press.

It's a meeting that has been brewing almost since the day Engler took over as interim president at his alma mater.

Read more:

MSU board to Engler: Please resign

MSU trustee: 'Engler's reign of terror is over'

Like Simon, much of Engler's tenure has been taken up with fallout from the Nassar scandal and heavy criticism from survivors of Nassar's abuse. Engler survived a motion to fire him this summer, but the criticism hasn't abated.

Once the meeting was announced, board member Brian Mosallam, the leading critic of Engler, told the Free Press the time had come for Engler to leave.

"John Engler's reign of terror is over," said Mosallam, who has been pushing for Engler's departure for nearly a year. "Michigan State University will be returned to its people."

The latest round of criticism came after Engler told the Detroit News editorial board that Nassar survivors were "enjoying the spotlight" while the university is "trying to go back to work."

That launched a fresh set of criticism on social media and elsewhere from those who believe Engler should be gone.

Twenty-three of MSU's top academic administrators — mostly deans of various colleges and schools — signed a letter sent to the board Wednesday demanding that Engler be replaced.

"The pattern of comments by interim President Engler, including his most recent statement suggesting that some of the survivors of sexual abuse are 'enjoying' the spotlight, further harms the very people it is our responsibility to support," the letter said. "We do not support his continued leadership."

The advocacy group ReclaimMSU cheered the news that Engler was likely on his way out. It has been calling for his removal for months.

"He was a known entity," said Betsy Riley, a graduate student with the group. "He was a conscious choice by the the board to play defense."

The group said it would like the board to engage various groups around campus in the search for an interim president.

"They say, 'trust us," Riley said. "We can't trust them. This is the group that brought us Engler."

A tumultuous year in office

Engler was hired as interim president amid turmoil at the university.

Last January, MSU was reeling from heavy criticism for its lack of action towards Nassar, a former MSU doctor, after hundreds of victims showed up to testify in court about how Nassar had sexually assaulted them.

Hours after Nassar was sentenced on criminal charges, Simon, now facing criminal charges related to MSU's handling of the Nassar scandal, stepped down and the board began looking for an interim replacement.

The board had two possibilities — former Michigan Gov. John Engler, a Republican, and former Michigan Gov. Jim Blanchard, a Democrat. Both were alumni with long ties to the school. But the state Legislature, then controlled by Republicans, made it clear to MSU — hire Engler or get ready to lose millions of dollars in state aid.

In a closed-door meeting, Democratic board member Joel Ferguson — a Lansing powerbroker with ties to Engler — flipped his vote to Engler, giving him a 5-3 majority. Later that week, in a public vote, all eight board members voted for Engler to start.

In a press conference after being hired, Engler promised that "change is coming" and that he would "move forward as if my own daughter were on this campus."

Over the course of the next year, Engler drew criticism for a number of what his critics saw as missteps.

Among them:

• Engler canceled a $10 million healing fund set up to help pay for counseling for Nassar survivors. In doing so, he cited what he said was fraud of the system and said after the survivors got a $500 million settlement from MSU, they didn't need the fund to pay for their counseling. Earlier this month, the MSU board rescinded this action and reinstated the fund.
• In an April email uncovered by the Free Press and the Chronicle of Higher Education, Engler accused Rachel Denhollander, the first Nassar victim to go public,  of getting kickbacks from attorneys for filing a lawsuit against MSU. When it was released in June, it brought a new round of calls for the board to fire Engler, including  one from now Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
• In April, Nassar survivor Kaylee Lorincz said Engler offered her $250,000 to drop her lawsuit. After Lorincz made the offer public and was highly critical of it, a top Engler aide sent a private email obtained by the Free Press in which she said any such claims were "fake news" and made up by survivors.
• After announcing he was creating a chief compliance officer position to be independent and work as a check on MSU, Engler folded it into an existing office and reportedly didn't give the resources the CCO asked for to run the operation.
• When the school's alumni magazine created an issue dedicated to the Nassar scandal, including several pieces critical of MSU's handling of the issue, Engler cancelled the issue. Instead an issue with a lengthy question-and-answer piece with Engler focusing on what he called the positive changes he had been making at MSU ran.
• Engler drew complaints for his hiring, with many saying he brought in his friends and political allies. Drawing the most vitriol was a three-year contract given to Bob Young, whom Engler had appointed to the state 'sSupreme Court when he was governor. Critics said Engler should not have given out contracts longer than the time he was expected to be at the school.
• When the head of MSU's Title IX office — the department that handles sexual assault complaints on campus — left, Engler appointed Rob Kent as the interim head. Kent had been working in the school's general counsel office and had defended the school in various lawsuits brought against the school by sexual assault survivors who alleged the school didn't follow proper procedures. Those critical of the move said he wasn't the right person to reform the office.
• After MSU Athletic Director Mark Hollis stepped down, Engler named Bill Beekman, then the secretary to the MSU board, as acting athletic director. He promised a national search. Later, Engler hired Beekman, who had no experience running an athletic department, without doing a national search. He said he made the move because the school's coaches, including head basketball coach Tom Izzo and head football coach Mark Dantonio, wanted Beekman to have the job. 
• After a lawsuit was filed against MSU by a sexual assault survivor, MSU released a statement about the case detailing the visits of the person filing the suit to MSU's counseling center, a likely violation of federal student privacy laws. Internal emails obtained by the Free Press showed Engler was personally involved in the crafting of that statement.

"We believe the board should fire Engler," MSU faculty member Anna Pegler Gordon, representing the group ReclaimMSU, said during public comment at a Jan. 9 board meeting. She said the group believes Engler has repeatedly lied and been unsympathetic to Nassar survivors.

Engler: Set next president a clean slate

In a meeting at the Free Press last week, Engler said he knew he had upset some people and said he would have done some things differently. But he said he believes he had set the university up for the next president to have a "clean slate" when that person starts.

As for the disagreements and tension? Some of that had come from him not being used to being in a university environment, he said. It's different, he told the Free Press, in little ways, such as who sees his communications.

"Wouldn't be emailing," he said. "As governor, I didn't have to worry about FOIA (public records laws). Unfortunately, everything at a university is subject to FOIA."

It also manifested in big ways — such as his style and approach.

"I think what the university community struggles with ... as governor, I got sued a lot. Litigation is a pretty full-contact sport. This university community is not used to this. I'm probably too used to it."

Engler said the environment at MSU was "hyper-charged."

"There was a lot of pressure going on. I ended up becoming the lighting rod because I'm the guy making a lot of decisions. But at the same time, somebody had to do it."

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"The Girls" v. "The Boys": Engler Demands Subpoena, Nessel Ignores Trafficking Tiny Humans In Her AG Office, Get To Know Seth Wexman

In the spirit of fuchsia...

John Engler to AG's office: Unless you recuse yourself, I'm not doing interview with investigators

Former Michigan governor and former MSU
interim president John Engler, right, and Peter Secchia
sit courtside during the second half of the Michigan State,
Michigan basketball game on Saturday,
March 9, 2019, at the Breslin Center in East Lansing. 

Former Michigan State University Interim President John Engler will not sit for an interview with investigators from the Michigan Attorney General's Office because he believes the office is biased against him.

Well, yeah, duh!

"What has become clear is the ethical standards and objectivity required for the conduct of an investigation are inapplicable to your approach to Mr. Engler," says a letter sent Wednesday by Engler attorney Seth Waxman of Dickinson Wright to the AG's office. The letter was sent to Michigan Assistant Attorney Christina Grossi, who has been running the case for Attorney General Dana Nessel. "You have prejudged Mr. Engler’s veracity and motives without ever talking to him. You have launched unfounded attacks and besmirched Mr. Engler. ...

"Your conduct diverges so drastically from the most basic principles of fairness, justice and what is right that you have undermined the integrity of your own investigation, which may be a result of your lack of experience handling criminal prosecutions (this being your first), let alone a high-profile criminal investigation. Your actions also form a claim of prosecutorial misconduct and constitute grounds for your immediate recusal from the investigation."

Nessel could not be reached immediately for comment.

Damn! Dems* fightin' words. (*pun intended).

Dana is supposed to be nice when it comes to due process, not bully pulpit proselytizing political partisanship. It is called due process, like starting with a letter, then a subpoena.  You must document the process.

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Engler's letter came one day after Nessel sent a letter to MSU Board Chairwoman Dianne Byrum claiming Engler was ducking her investigators and saying he wasn't able to meet with investigators in Michigan, despite attending home MSU basketball games.

Waxman's letter disputes that. Waxman says on March 4, the two sides finalized a meeting for March 28 in Washington, D.C., where Engler has worked in business leadership roles after serving as Michigan governor.

Well, if I were Dana, and I was in D.C. to meet with Engler, what I would do is to contact federal investigative authorities to see if I could possibly do a conjugal collaborative, but then again, I guess it would be awkward to work with those individuals if they were investigating me and "The Girls", but, hey, what do I know, I am not the State Attorney General.

"Nevertheless, based on no action or statement by Mr. Engler, you claim that he has a

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel speaks during a press
briefing on her office's investigation into the Larry Nassar scandal
at Michigan State University on Feb. 21, 2019 

'brazen disregard' for the investigation and was not acting in 'good faith,' among other libelous statements," the letter from Waxman says. "Mr. Engler agreed to the interview, that interview date is nine days away, and there is nothing more a witness can do before meeting voluntarily and answering questions."

The letter claims the two sides had also agreed that Engler was not a target of the investigation.

That is because if she targets Engler, she is going to have to target all "The Girls".

Nessel, a Democrat, said in her Tuesday letter she was shocked to learn that Engler was sitting courtside with promiment MSU donor Peter Secchia during MSU's basketball game with the University of Michigan. She said her office had been told Engler, a Republican, wasn't going to be in Michigan.

Sometimes, plans change.

There could be a reason Engler doesn't want to be interviewed in Michigan, Nessel said in her letter.

"...  an individual who interviews in another state is subject to different laws and processes for purposes of the interview. For example, the laws in Washington, D.C., related to intentionally lying to a police officer in the course of an investigation are not as strong as in Michigan."

That is why Dana should do the conjugal collaborative, but she will not.  That would be self-incrimination. Messy.

Engler often in Michigan

Waxman's letter Wednesday disputed that.

Seth Wexman

"Your outrage about Mr. Engler’s travels is similarly surprising and misplaced. Since early February 2019, I have been communicating with you about making Mr. Engler available for a voluntary interview," Waxman's letter said. "At no time did I represent that Mr. Engler would not travel to Michigan as we discussed scheduling. Mr. Engler owns a home in Michigan. He has family in Michigan. It stands to reason that he would and does travel to Michigan when his schedule permits doing so.

"There has been no effort to hide that on two occasions Mr. Engler traveled to Michigan on weekends to see Michigan State University basketball games. Yet, you scurrilously allege that Mr. Engler somehow acted improperly by attending those events, as if he attended in disguise. He is not a criminal defendant. He is not under the supervision of a court. You penalize and criticize Mr. Engler for exercising his unrestricted right to travel and, as do hundreds of millions of Americans, enjoy college basketball games."

That is right.  There are no restrictions in travel for Engler in place.

Nessel's letter Tuesday said that "our offer to travel to Mr. Engler was contingent on Mr. Engler being unavailable to interview in the State of Michigan."

Engler was unavailable to interview.  He was busy at the MSU game...making plans....

"Finally, as if your false representations and strong-arming is not enough, you now threaten to use Mr. Engler’s lawful employment contract with Michigan State University against him.

".... what right does the Attorney General’s Office have to interject itself into and twist a contract between a private citizen and his employer into an illegitimate law enforcement tool? You not only appear to have acted beyond your authority, but also made yourself a witness to the broader investigation. That is a rare accomplishment for a prosecutor to subject herself to personal liability and become a witness."

Oh, SNAP! That was very eloquently stated. I like this cat. Seth used to be the U.S. Solicitor General. Seth works for WilmerHale, the same law firm Jeannie Rhee and Mueller hail. Seth did the SCOTUS Arizona Redistricting Law case that seems to question the people usurping the powers of the Legislature by stopping elected officials from privatizing.  This is a very interesting attorney client privilege situation to watch unfold.

Email exchange

The two sides have exchanged emails over the past months trying to schedule the interview, according to records obtained by the Free Press from a Freedom of Information Act request.

That included an email from Grossi to Waxman late Tuesday night saying if Engler wanted to voluntarily come in and interview in Michigan, he should contact the AG's office.

"Otherwise, there's no reason for you to contact me, certainly not to feign outrage or plead ignorance about the reason the interview was canceled," Grossi said in her email.

The two sides also disagreed about topics for the interview, with Waxman trying to get Grossi to confirm limited topics of conversation and questioning as suggested by an AG investigator and Grossi saying she wasn't going to agree to a script.

Hey, I have a few suggestions for a topic for the interview! Medicaid fraud in child welfare, the Children's Trust Fund and MEDC.  How about privatization of foster care and adoption, which brought in those Public Private Partnerships that funded you and "The Girls'" political campaigns for office...oups, j'ai dit une bétise!

The ongoing investigation has resulted in criminal charges against several MSU employees, including former MSU President Lou Anna Simon — whom Engler replaced. Simon is charged with lying to investigators.

Engler inherited the duties of office, and the breech of trust.  In order for Engler to bear witness to what happened at MSU, Nessel must also bear witness to what is still going on in the Michigan Office of Attorney General.

They shall eat each other alive, and I shall be intently watching.

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Engler Is Mad At Schuette - Is It About Really Dark Money?

Schuette reading Engler's demand to remove
his name from the gubernatorial endorsement list.

It is my belief John Engler is mad at Bill Schuette for doing his job.

The only thing that really has me confused is to why it took Schuette to wait until the victim court statements into the record before he actually did something about it.

Perhaps, he is working behind the scenes in "other" FBI investigations like, oh perhaps, like the Detroit Land Bank Authority and their team of "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending).

People forget Schuette used to be up in D.C. and I bet he still has friends who know "stuff".

Perhaps, it has to do with Haiti.

Perhaps, it has something to do with the State Auditor General investigation into Michigan's child welfare operations.

Or maybe it is just a political stunt, like Engler is alleging in a round about way.

Either way, Engler is mad at Schuette.

Stay tuned, because it is my belief that this is going to get juicy and I bet it has to do with lots and lots of dark, really dark money.

Engler asks Schuette to pull name from endorsement list

Lansing — Attorney General Bill Schuette has removed John Engler’s name from a list of endorsements on his gubernatorial campaign website at the request of the Republican former governor who took over this week as Michigan State University’s interim president.

Engler “can’t be involved” in election-year politics as he helps MSU navigate continued fallout from the Larry Nassar sexual abuse scandal, spokesman John Truscott said Wednesday.

“It’s important for people to know at the university that (Engler) will not be engaging in any partisan political activity,” Truscott told The Detroit News. “This is a very serious job with a lot of work ahead of him. He won’t be diverting any attention to political activity, but he knows he has to work with people of all political persuasions.”

Schuette’s office is investigating the university’s handling of complaints against Nassar, a former university and USA Gymnastics doctor accused of assaulting more than 200 women and girls. The attorney general announced on Jan. 27 his “ongoing investigation.”

The Midland Republican is running for governor and first touted Engler’s endorsement for the GOP primary on Sept. 25, citing comments Engler made to a reporter with the Gongwer subscription news service.

A spokeswoman confirmed the Schuette campaign complied with Engler’s request, pulling his name from an online endorsement list Wednesday morning.

“Given the ongoing investigations by the Michigan Legislature, the Congress, the NCAA, the U.S. Department of Education and the Independent Prosecutor into Michigan State's failure to deal with Larry Nassar's sexual assaults over a 20-year period, the campaign has removed the name of the MSU President from all materials,” Bridget Bush said in a statement.

Engler and Schuette are political veterans who battled together in the 1990 statewide election. Engler appointed Schuette as his agricultural department director after the former congressman gave up his seat in a losing bid for U.S. Senate.

Observers say their relationship now is now showing signs of strain. In a Monday letter, Engler told special prosecutor Bill Forsyth he was disappointed agents arrived on campus Friday with search warrants and “camera crews,” noting Schuette has said the investigation “is not to be ‘political.’”

The surprise visit was “very much at odds with the cooperation I have pledged,” Engler wrote, saying he hopes the camera crews were not part of any “investigation ‘media strategy.’”

Truscott said he first asked Schuette’s campaign to remove Engler’s name from the endorsement list over the weekend, requesting the former three-term governor should not be mentioned in any campaign materials moving forward.

Engler will “sit everything out” this election cycle, he said.

Liberal advocacy group Progress Michigan said Wednesday that Schuette should also return political contributions from Engler. Campaign finance records show Engler and his wife last year each donated $2,500 to Schuette.

Engler’s request to have his name removed from the endorsement list is “a shot across Schuette’s bow,” said Bill Ballenger, a longtime political pundit and who served in the state Legislature in the early 1970s as a Republican.

“I don’t think Schuette wants to be going forward in his campaign with John Engler, whether or not he’s interim MSU president, at odds with him and making statements like he’s made over the past few days.”

He said he is surprised that Schuette or Forsyth did not reach out to Engler prior to Friday’s raid to ask for the cooperation that the former governor has promised.

“He was really put out about that, or at least he’s saying he was put out,” Ballenger said.

TJ Bucholz, a Democratic strategist who worked as a communications director for the Michigan Department of Education under Engler, said it makes sense for the former governor to distance himself from Schuette’s campaign to reduce any questions over political motives.

“John Engler is not a wall flower, and neither is Bill Schuette,” Bucholz said. “I think the public line on that is probably accurate, but I also think there’s probably a degree of animosity (over the campus raid) as well.”

The MSU Board of Trustees unanimously appointed Engler to the interim position last week after the resignation of former President Lou Anna Simon. Students and faculty have protested the pick, many citing Engler’s political background.

Former Gov. Jim Blanchard, a Democrat who lost to Engler in the 1990 general election, is expected to serve as a senior adviser to Engler at MSU. They are still working out Blanchard’s role and “may have something to announce next week,” Truscott said.

Schuette is competing for the GOP gubernatorial nomination against Lt. Gov. Brian Calley, state Sen. Patrick Colbeck of Canton Township and Saginaw obstetrician Jim Hines. He also has been endorsed by President Donald Trump and been supported by Vice President Mike Pence, whose political action committee donated to Schuette’s campaign.

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All Hail The Whistleblowers: Kaylee Lorincz Calls Out MSU John Engler

Kaylee Lorincz revealed more than just the fact that Engler cares about nothing but the bottom line as Engler is more concerned about saving his own bottom. (puns intended).

Even Brian Calley put it out there to just pay off whistleblowers to make them go away in order to continue the raping of Michigan's children.

This is the culture of privatization, which all started, right here in Michigan.

Child welfare is the a multi-billion industry of trafficking tiny humans, because no one cares about the children, not even John Engler.

Michigan children have been Legally Kidnapped, raped, tortured, drugged as lab rats, and sold, under the leadership of John Engler.

Jennifer Granholm continued to carry the mantle of indifference.

Rick Snyder is clueless, just look at how he allowed the implementation of the plan to poison and profit from the children of Flint.

Engler used to sit on the board of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, a private foundation for foster care and adoption that is worth over $2 billion and has financial interest in:

• Bain Capital
• Bank of New York Melon
• Center for American Progress
• Goldman Sachs
• Amazon 
• UnitedHealth Group
• Blackstone
• Adage Capital Partners

Just to name a few financial entities that are deep into child welfare fraud and money laundering using federal dollars, of which I am going out there to say Medicaid and TARP, to traffic tiny humans on the stock markets.

This money was stolen from the children.

Engler is scared, and rightfully so, because I am on a mission.

Michigan State University investigation is deeper than just the Nassar investigation, much deeper.

We will get to Haiti, just be patient.

Until then, All Hail The Whistleblower Kaylee Lorincz because she let MSU, Brian Calley and John Engler know that she will not be bought and sold into silence.

Nassar survivor says MSU interim president offered her $250K to settle

LANSING, Mich. (WJBK) - What started as a simple introduction led to an offer to settle one of the many cases against Michigan State University for the misconduct of Larry Nassar, according to a victim of the disgraced doctor.

During the MSU Board of Trustees meeting Friday morning, Kaylee Lorincz revealed MSU interim President John Engler offered her $250,000 to settle her case against the university several weeks ago.

Lorincz said after sharing bits and pieces of her assault back in December, she has heard apologies on two separate occasions but has yet to see any action.

She said she is continually shocked by MSU interim President John Engler's "callous and disrespectful words" and said when she and her mom stopped in to MSU a few weeks ago to sign up to speak at Friday's meeting, she asked to introduce herself to Engler.

"My hope was that maybe if he actually met a survivor, he might become more empathetic to what we're experiencing," she said. "He has said some hurtful things and I wanted him to know that when he does that, he causes me to feel victimized all over again."

Nassar sentenced to 40-175 years in prison

While they waited, Lorincz said they were met by the Vice President University spokesperson, who spoke with them for about half an hour until they were brought into the meeting with Engler. Carol Viventi, Vice President and Special Counsel to the President, was also in the meeting she said.

"What he did not tell us is that Ms. Viventi is his lawyer."

During the meeting, Lorincz said she told them she was interested in helping the university heal, while Engler told her about the changes MSU has made and plans for progress. Lorincz said he told her that working together couldn't occur until the civil suits were settled.

That's when she said Engler asked her this question: "Right now, if I wrote you a check for $250,000, would you take it?"

Lorincz said that when she explained it wasn't about the money, he told her to give her a number. She says he told her he met with Rachel Denhollander, and that she gave him a number.

Father who lunged at Nassar in court: 'I lost control'

Denhollander was the first survivor to file a criminal complaint against Larry Nassar back in 2016. 

"I felt like I was getting bullied into saying something."

So she followed up with Rachel, she says, who told her she had never met with Engler -- and never gave a dollar amount.

Lorincz said that Engler attacked her attorneys, who were not present for this meeting.

"Then President Engler started saying it was sad that hundreds of good osteopathic doctors at MSU are being judged by one - one bad doctor. My mom interrupted and said what about former Dean Strampel? Wasn't he just arrested?" she said.

She said Engler rolled his eyes, and said it was "only a slap on the butt."

That's when Lorincz was cut off and told her time was up, as the crowd chanted, "Let her speak."

She persisted and kept speaking, saying MSU tried to make them feel like they (the victims) were the problem and that the school was the victim.

"When you protect and promote a sexual predator and foster a culture of lies and coverups, you are responsible," she said.

She continued to read her speech among several interruptions from the board: "Finish your four sentences, you are done."

So she finished with her last statement:

"You created this, not me. I can no longer care about helping MSU, and you guys, certainly, do not.

You are the ones who care about the money and I just want my life back."

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Cocktails & Popcorn: Engler Has No Intentions Of Cooperating With Michigan Attorney General Nessel - Too Many Trafficking Tiny Humans Trust Funds At Stake

Dana is being very polite in seeking an interview with Engler for the simple fact that this is the same dance that went on in March 2019.

Engler knows there are watchful eyes upon him.

We shall see which side of history Dana wishes to be remembered.

Nessel, Engler 'at an impasse' over interview in MSU investigation

Mackinac Island — Attorney General Dana Nessel said her office is “at an impasse” with Michigan State University’s former interim president John Engler regarding an interview for Nessel’s investigation into the university Larry Nassar scandal.

Engler’s unwillingness to be interviewed about the university's handling of complaints against former sports medicine doctor Nassar will not stop Nessel’s office from completing its investigation, she said, “but we won’t have as much information.”

Nessel said she won’t put up with Engler’s “forum shopping” or excuses regarding his lack of availability for an interview.

“It’s not because he never comes to Michigan,” Nessel said. “It’s because he doesn’t want to be interviewed in a state where I have prosecutorial authority. He doesn’t want to be interviewed in a state where ... he can be held responsible in the event that he makes intentional misrepresentations.”

When contacted by The Detroit News Wednesday, Engler said he had a call on the other line and hung up. A request for comment sent to Engler’s lawyer was not immediately returned.

Nessel requested an interview with Engler in January around the same time the former governor resigned under pressure after a year at the helm of MSU. He had replaced former President Lou Anna Simon, who resigned in the wake of the scandal involving serial pedophile Nassar.

In April, Engler’s lawyer Seth B. Waxman said Engler had not been contacted by Nessel’s office since it cancelled a scheduled March interview in D.C. Nessel’s office has said it was only willing to meet with Engler in D.C. if he was unavailable in Michigan.

Engler has attended several MSU sporting events during that time period.

In March, Waxman objected to having Engler be interviewed by Christina Grossi, who is the lead assistant attorney general in the MSU probe. He argued that Grossi had "prejudged Mr. Engler's veracity and motives without ever talking to him" and wrote that Grossi demonstrated a "personal bias against Mr. Engler."

When university trustees urged Engler to meet with Nessel in an April letter, Waxman responded that Engler “at all times offered, and made himself available, to meet with the Attorney General’s Office.”

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Rumble In Detroit: Duggan v. Engler

Ladies, Gentlemen, lads and lasses, Let's Get Ready To Rumble!

The main event takes place in the City of Detroit, where we have in one corner, the reigning champion of privatization, the one and only, the former Governor of Michigan, the man who launched the first national model of child welfare privatization which stripped billions of dollars from the welfare of children to generate child poverty and infant mortality levels in Detroit to international heights, allow me the pleasure of introducing John Engler.

via GIPHY

In the other corner, we have a new comer, an up and rising star in the political circles of the privatization game, the man who is known for his Hail May saves of major organizations, by any means necessary, of course, the legendary Mike Duggan!

John Engler has come out of hibernation, well, he was just watching, consulting Snyder, to fight for his money-grubbin'-religious-freedom-from-taxes-and-oversight-fraudulently-billing-to-promote-corporate-America's-future-cheap-and-government-subsidized-workforce model, which just so happens to be children in poverty!

Praise God, for thou shall not audit God nor privately contracted child welfare programs.

Duggan has partnered with Jamie Dimon, the king of banking, JPMorgan Chase.

Banks have oversight through the Federal Reserve and must execute its secondary directive of creating jobs.

"The Elected Ones" will, once again, stand up and attempt to be contenders in the fight against child poverty by giving more theatrically, religiously laced, fire and brimstone, ad hominem monologues, purposefully demonstrating their lack of sophistication on the issues of social finance while swearing allegiance to the status quo of Detroit governance, which is exactly how Detroit got into this mess in the first place.

What is the status quo of Detroit governance?

Greed.  Pure, unadulterated greed while purporting all the wonderful things they do for kids and families.

The worst part is that "The Elected Ones" do greed by conspicuous consumption and do not even have the wherewithal to cover up the money streams going into their re-election campaigns.

I got my money on Duggan and Dimon because I know this is going to be juicy and this is Detroit.

Remember, "Children are our most precious treasures" and everyone wants to get their hands on that Social Security Trust Fund.

Let the battle commence!

JPMorgan Chase Awards $4 Million for Detroit Youth Jobs Initiative

JPMorgan Chase & Co. has announced a three-year, $4 million grant to the United Way for Southeastern Michigan to expand young people's access to economic opportunity in Detroit.

Building on the firm's $100 million commitment to Detroit's economic recovery, the grant is designed to boost the number of young people graduating from the city's high schools with opportunities to secure well-paying, high-demand jobs. Chase joins the Skillman and Ford foundations and the Ford Motor Company Fund in the effort to connect ten thousand Detroit high school students to career education and work experiences, enabling them to earn credentials, qualifying them for college and career pathways in several important and growing regional industries, including advanced manufacturing, health care, information technology, digital communications, engineering, and public service.

"We are excited about expanding career-focused educational programs that give Detroit's young people opportunities to access career pathways in the city's expanding sectors," said Chauncy Lennon, head of workforce initiatives at JPMorgan Chase. "Building off a model proven in other communities, the collaborative approach being taken by the city to solve tough issues is reflected in their commitment to work with civic, business, and education leaders to better align education with the skills that growing business sectors need."

Engler: ‘Morally wrong’ to create Detroit school group

Former Michigan Governor John Engler
Founding Emperor of Privatization

Former Gov. John Engler is backing Michigan lawmakers who are rejecting a proposed Detroit Education Commission that could regulate the growth of competing city charter schools he helped create two decades ago.

In an exclusive Thursday interview with The Detroit News, Engler opposed a plan championed by Gov. Rick Snyder, Senate Republicans and Mayor Mike Duggan to create a commission with the power to block some charter school operators from opening additional schools in Detroit.

The state House late Thursday approved a six-bill, $617 million rescue of Detroit Public Schools without the commission, an omission that doesn’t appear to be hurting its chances of Michigan Senate approval as early as this week. Senate Majority Leader Arlan Meekhof, R-West Olive, views it as “a realistic compromise” between prior Senate and House plans, spokeswoman Amber McCann said.

Engler, who marshaled through the mid-1990s laws that created charter schools and a state-centered financing of public schools, said the rapid decline of the Detroit school system since he left office in 2003 is evidence that the city’s parents are seeking schools with better educational achievement than DPS.

“People have chosen to leave, they weren’t forced to leave. So it’s to the great credit of the House of Representatives that they politely turned down the idea of some commission,” said Engler, who is now president of the Business Roundtable, a national advocacy group representating corporate chief executives.

Engler endorsed the House’s plan that would not constrain charter school growth as the lower chamber was preparing for the late Thursday night vote.

The former three-term Republican governor called any constraints on charter schools “morally wrong.”

“This is a school system where the principals see nothing wrong with stealing from the district, and leadership wants to eliminate the competition in order to force children into schools where they won’t be educated,” said Engler, referring to 13 current and former DPS administrators who are facing jail time for their role in a $2.7 million bribery and kickback scheme.

The 46,000-student school district has lost more than 100,000 students during the past 10 years.

“In my mind, it’s inevitable the rest of them will also leave,” Engler said. “Because you cannot morally justify putting your child in a school where 19 of 20 will not be able to read proficiently.”

Engler said if he were still in office, he would move to eliminate the school district’s administration and convert the district into a network of independently operated neighborhood schools.

“The central office of Detroit Public Schools should be closed,” Engler said. “It’s too expensive, too ineffective and too corrupt.”

Engler, who now lives in Virginia, said he has been following the months-long Detroit school district debate for months.

In 1999, then-Gov. Engler said he worried about cronyism and the deterioration of education in Detroit and engineered legislation that grabbed power from the district’s elected school board. The state created a seven-member school reform board with six members appointed by then-Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer who would pick and monitor a powerful chief executive to run the district.

The seventh reform board member represented the state and could veto the board’s CEO choice. The governor’s Detroit board member vetoed the first CEO choice, a Pittsburgh superintendent. The reform board settled on its second choice, Colorado Springs, Colo. Superintendent Kenneth Burnley, who ran the Detroit Public Schools through the end of 2005.

Detroiters voted in November 2005 to dissolve the reform board at the end of 2005, as the state law allowed. The elected school board resumed power in 2006 and oversaw the Detroit district until 2009, when declining finances and mounting debt prompted Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm to send in the first of several emergency financial managers.

Engler argues there still hasn’t been enough focus on improving educational achievement in one of the nation’s worst-performing school systems.

“The crisis in education in Detroit demands everyone’s attention,” he told The Detroit News. “And most of the conversation has been about solutions about what might be good for adults who might be employed by the system. Much too little about what would be good for the kids who need the education if they’re going to compete for jobs in this century.”

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Transposable Privatization Models: Engler, Clinton Foundation, MSU & Child Welfare Fraud

It is moments such as this, that makes me melt, and he knows it.

It is just unfortunate that I had to wait for Schuette to run for Governor to actually do something...unless he has been working behind the scenes.  Still sniffing around on that verification.

Engler is back, and he has been marked.

Allow me to introduce to the world, the godfather of privatization, the one, the only, John Engler.

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Here is a synoptical overview of Engler:

John Engler & Bill Clinton, MSU

He came into Michigan with a bunch of big time corporate money to finance his campaign to be elected as Governor so he could sell off the state government service operations back to the corporations who funded his campaign, so he could be hired by them when he was term limited because he had planted all his people and policies and politicians in the state departments and agencies who handed out the contracts to the corporations who funded his campaigns and pay him, now, lobbying fees.

This is the world's first privatization model.

I recall the day he just up, and shut down residential institutions.

You woke up to see hundreds of individuals who were institutionalized their entire lives, wondering aimlessly on the streets, without medication, aged, disabled, old, and young.

It was quite the horrific site at 8 mile and Greenfield.

He and his corporate buddies got together and figured out that non-profits do not pay taxes, and, in particular, religious non-profits are even more secretive which means you can just take all the money you want and never get caught when you privatize child welfare services.

He sold off Michigan's children's legacies to the highest bidder by denationalizing, or rather, privatizing human services to "garner the best interests of the child" all around the world, starting with the Child Protective Services Model.

Engler led the way to hedge human capital with the blessings of the tax exempt god because this was the Bush era of faith-based funding, the new federal campaign slush fund machine for churches to pump out their privatization propaganda and the vote.

This was the beginning of the era of what I like to call "Pastor Pimp and Reverend Pork Chop' that broughtforth the phenomena of the megachurch.

A megachurch, more than likely built in Detroit, in what was and still is considered the mightiest congressional voting district, due to its civil rights, music, automobile history, and geographic location of an international trade border, water ways, grand trunk railroads and freeways, as a representation of community power temples, contolling the vote, the candidates and eventually the elected official by distracting them with pretty shiny things if they tried to join their privatization big money making clubs.

He re-invigored the residuals of peculiar institution with his PERM model, in the splendor of pilfering the coffers of the children's trust funds through Medicaid fraud in child welfare and the churches did not say a damn thing, except for thank you when they got their faith-based funding.

(Side note:  The Michigan acronym PERM was fungible with the federal Payment Error Rate Measurement (PERM), you know, to throw off anyone who even dared think of calling out fraud to make people think you were crazy.)

Michigan Conservative Welfare Reform 1995 by Beverly Tran on Scribd

After his term, Engler did a quick, "peace out" and left the state, that had a budget surplus, on the verge of bankruptcy, diffusing the privatization model all around the nation, and eventually, all over the world.

The world faith-based funding slush fund is warehoused in USAID of the State Department.

Engler sold Michigan's child welfare services to private corporations through contracts, setting up the quagmire of the Attorney General's conflict of interest in contemporaneously advising and advocating child welfare agencies in court.

In Wayne County, only the Attorney General prosecutes child abuse and neglect cases.

Enter Jennifer Granholm.

She got with the Clinton Foundation and her gurl, Hillary, to set up the very first, transposable model of privatizing child welfare fraud services under ASFA, and ran that socioeconomic experiment, right here in Detroit because no one had the sophistication to figure out what was going on but me.

The mortgage foreclosure fraud scheme hustle models were simaltaneously also launched in Detroit.

They ran it through the Michigan Democratic Party.

The Michigan Republican Party was making their dolla's holla's through their faith-based NGOs by promoting the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, that I worked on in dealing with parental rights, when I began to research and found out that the state was complicit in a corporate takeover.

See, it is like this, Michigan, set in motion by Engler's Type III Transfers with an Executive Order, with the finalizing stroke of Grahholm's pen, reorganized state government, put everything in the hands of a corporation, decentralizing executive powers, making governmental muddling to the likes of walking through a sewer, at night, with no lights nor protective equipment, for miles, not knowing if or when you would ever get out.

Not all governmental docs were online nor were federal, state or local governments online to the capacity of today, so I hope you appreciate the picture of what I went through to get this intel.

I was the first person to FOIA data extrapolation of county expeditures in child abuse and neglect court cases from the State.

I still have the original data, too.

They thought I was crazy, but worked with me.

I ran that stuff in my own spline models and I found the patterns.

Wayne County was running child welfare fraud operation to the tunen of $100 million a month and no one said a word, except for Brendan Dunleavy, former Wayne County Auditor General.

Exit Granholm, literally.  She took off to California and, as the article below presents it, Jenny from the Block was a bit too smart to take over as head of MSU because she sees me coming.

We shall leave it like that for now.

Engler did one more thing before he left the Office of Governor; he set up a network model in Michigan State University to run his corporate operations.

Blanchard, the Governor before Engler, was not that sophistocated in fraud schemes, but was eventually appointed as U.S. Ambassador to Canada, you know, to execute a transporting stuff model someone came up with and told him to make it happen, back and forth across the border, under the Clinton Administration.

But I am getting a bit ahead of the investigation and the tale of Michigan stealin'.

MSU was structuring not just child welfare policy and programs for the State of Michigan, it was also running programs and controlling resources, with United Way and Salvation Army linked up (that I will tell that story later or you can show me whacha got and pull PACER).

MSU was also running some bogus ass child welfare operations funneling money to questionable Russian enterprises (or Israeli because it is always the same people who go back and forth, restructuring each time they get busted stealin' like Catholic Charities).

Anyway, I digress because I am getting too excited.

Back to Engler, Clinton and Granholm.

Remember that time I told you the tale about University of Southern California, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and the Emergency Manager Law of Michigan, that next leg in the privatization model to take over government?

Well, if you do not remember, or are just a first time visitor, or if you drowning in your own cognitive dissonance, you can click here ====> for a reminder.

The Emergency Manager law was such a spectacular hit in the corporate, privatization world, that it eventually was implemented on the federal, and international levels which I will go into later, or you can just go through my archives, which brings us back to the article, below, and the resurrection of Engler.

The same university takeover model that was used to establish the USC PriceWaterhouseCooper School of Public Policy that came up with the land bank takeover model that Dan Kildee spearheaded, conjured up the Detroit Land Bank Authority, also came up with Michigan's public assest forfeiture Emergency Manager Law, is the same university takeover model that was implemented at Michigan State University.

MSU is and always has been the think tank for Michigan government, and so far, from what I have observed, is bigger than the Jerry Sandusky, Penn State horrors, which dealt with foster kids and child welfare fraud.

MSU was the place that came up with the Michigan Election Commission models because Chris Thomas told me so.  He told me they were students who put the election system together because they did not have to pay them.  I shall assume someone who negotiated the deal kept and split the federal funding for it.

There is much more to come because I truly cannot wait to see how Engler is going to pull himself out of this trick bag due to the fact that the Clinton Global Initiative University was never incorporated, and its Michigan Charity section filings are all jacked up, too.

The future always unlocks the past and revenge is a dish, best served cold.

I am putting my money on Schuette to do the right thing and serve me, at my pleasure, in the most public fashion.

The moral of the story shall always be, "Do not be mean to my Sweetie".

Former Gov. John Engler to be Michigan State's interim president

Michigan State University will name former Michigan Gov. John Engler to be interim president, multiple sources with knowledge of discussions told the Free Press.

Engler, a Republican, is a MSU graduate. He is expected to be named to the position at a special 9 a.m. MSU board meeting Wednesday.

Also coming on board is another former Michigan governor, Jim Blanchard, a Democrat, who will be named as a senior adviser. Blanchard is also a MSU graduate.

Board members believe that by adding both Engler and Blanchard - former leaders of both major political parties in Michigan - any concerns about politics will be muted.

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Engler will be in place while the board conducts a nationwide search for the replacement to Lou Anna Simon, who resigned last week in the fallout of the Larry Nassar case.

She made the announcement hours after a judge sentenced Nassar to 40 to 175 years in prison as part of a plea deal on seven counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct involving more than 156 girls and women over more than two decades.

She said in her resignation statement there was no cover-up at MSU.

"The survivors’ accounts are horrific. They are tragic, heartbreaking, and personally gut-wrenching. I take solace that many victims have indicated that the opportunity to confront Nassar is a step toward healing. I am proud of the exceptional work of the Special Victims Unit led by Lieutenant Andrea Munford with the steadfast leadership of Chief Dunlap. I am proud of my support of their work even though the results have been very painful to all who watched," Simon said.

After Simon resigned, there were a number of names raised to the board as possible interim presidents, including Engler, Blanchard and former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm.

In a tweet shortly after Simon resigned, Granholm said it wouldn't be her.

"Not me, but I’m confident they will find a strong, clear leader. For the sake of current and future Spartans, let’s hope so."

Also raised as a possible interim choice was former Grand Valley State University President Mark Murray, who also served as president of Meijer, Inc. Murray told board members he wasn't interested, sources said.

Blanchard and Murray were all mentioned as a possible MSU president when Peter McPherson left in 2004 and Simon was promoted from provost to president.

But as MSU graduates and top executives of a large bureaucracy, Engler and Blanchard are natural picks, and will appease both the Republicans and Democrats on the MSU board of trustees, which has a 4-4 partisan split.

Engler, 69, has been a longtime political presence in Michigan. He was the youngest person elected to the state House of Representatives in 1970 at the age of 22, where he served until 1979, leaving after winning a seat in the state Senate and serving as the iron-fisted Senate Majority Leader.

He scored a razor thin victory over then incumbent Governor Blanchard in 1990 and stayed in the state's top job through the end of 2002. After leaving the job, he moved to Washington where he served as president and CEO of the National Manufacturers Association and then the head of the Business Roundtable, a national organization of business leaders. He retired last year and has a home in Laingsburg with his wife Michelle. His triplet daughters have all recently graduated from college.

After losing his reelection bid in 1990, Blanchard became the U.S. Ambassador to Canada under President Bill Clinton and later became a partner in the Washington DC-based law firm of DLA Piper. He ran for governor again in 2002, but lost to then Attorney General Jennifer Granholm, who would then go on to win two terms as Michigan's governor.

The choice was applauded by both politicians and people who have worked with the men.

"John Engler is the right choice to be Michigan State University's interim president," said Speaker of the House Tom Leonard, R-DeWitt Township. "He is a strong leader with a proven track record of reform, and the school needs someone who is able to come in from the outside, stand up to the status quo and make immediate changes."

David Doyle was the chairman of the Michigan Republican Party while Engler was governor. While he was surprised that Engler was the choice, given the partisan make-up of the board, "I think he'll do a great job."

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John Engler Is Running The MSU Defense

Something tells me John is scared.

What do you think?

At least, now, John Engler knows what it feels like to have your house raided, your children legally kidnapped, with no advanced warning, considering the fact that he was the one who privatized the child welfare system for profit.

I wonder if Forsyth is searching for those trust fund ratlines.

Just remember, this is not political, this is about the welfare of children, no matter what direction the investigation takes.

Stay tuned.

Engler protests investigators’ surprise visit at MSU

"Don't worry, John, they will never figure it out."

Michigan State University interim President John Engler defended the school’s cooperation with the Michigan Attorney General’s Office and expressed disappointment that agents arrived on campus without warning last week in the wake of the Larry Nassar scandal.

In a letter, Engler wrote he would have appreciated a phone call Friday from Special Independent Counsel William Forsyth, who was appointed by Attorney General Bill Schuette to oversee the independent Nassar investigation at MSU.

Agents arrived on campus with search warrants and removed items from several offices after AG officials said they requested records and other items from key players in the scandal a month ago.

“Your decision to arrive without warning at the Hannah Administration Building with search warrants and camera crews was ... very much at odds with the cooperation I have pledged,’” Engler wrote to Forsyth. “I realize that I was not the Interim President on Friday, but I would have appreciated a phone call regarding any perceived lack of cooperation, which we would emphatically dispute.

“As for the accompanying camera crews, the Attorney General has made clear this investigation is to be not ‘political,’” Engler continued. “Hopefully, their presence was not part of an investigation ‘media strategy’ but rather inadvertent and the result of indiscrete (sic) behavior that can be stopped.”

In an email, AG spokeswoman Andrea Bitely said, “Mr. Forsyth is currently reviewing the letter from Interim President Engler.”

The letter was released Tuesday by MSU, a day after Engler wrote it on his first day as the school’s interim president.

The AG’s office launched a probe into MSU to find out who knew what and when during the more than two decades that Nassar, one of the most notorious and prolific child predators, worked at the university.

He sexually assaulted 265 young women by inserting his fingers into them under the guise of medical treatment.

The probe comes more than a year and a half after MSU police launched an investigation into one woman’s complaint about Nassar, and scores of other women came forward. Nassar initially denied the accusations, then pleaded guilty after prosecutors charged him and victims testified in preliminary court proceedings.

In December, a federal judge handed Nassar a 60-year prison sentence for possessing 37,000 child pornography images. Then, after more than 200 women testified over nine days in two courtrooms about the impact the abuse had on their lives, two county judges gave Nassar prison sentences of 40-175 years and 40-125 years. His last sentence came Monday.

Many are now turning their attention to Michigan State, to see who and what within the culture may have allowed the former doctor to prey on victims for so long.

Last month, a Detroit News investigation showed reports of sexual misconduct by Nassar reached at least 14 MSU representatives in the two decades before his arrest, with no fewer than eight women reporting his actions.

AG agents issued a search warrant on Friday at MSU after Forsyth sought every record from the university related to former women’s gymnastics coach Kathie Klages, former College of Osteopathic Medicine dean William Strampel, as well as emails and text messages sent to or from former MSU President Lou Anna Simon regarding the convicted sports doctor.

Forsyth also asked for the immediate production of physical items assigned to Strampel, Nassar’s former boss, who recently stepped down, Bitely said last week.

AG special agents and Michigan State Police removed records and what appeared to be a flash drive from the Hannah Administration Building and Fee Hall, and made other stops, including the Office of the Provost.

They also went to the office of Kristine Moore, assistant general counsel at the university, who oversaw a Title IX investigation into Nassar’s conduct that led to two reports, including one that recently became public.

Engler said getting the facts out and changing the culture that allowed Nassar to flourish for so long at MSU is critical to healing.

“The abuse suffered by so many survivors as young women under the guise of treatment by Larry Nassar has created unimaginable pain for these women and their families,” Engler wrote. “My mission is to change the culture that could have prevented this tragedy.”

Engler added that the university must understand and be able to answer the questions being asked, such as why Nassar was not discovered earlier, what warning signs were missed, whether MSU officials knew about Nassar’s conduct and chose to ignore or cover it up, and what can be done to prevent this tragedy from ever appening again.

“I hope we can become a model for university communities across the state and nation,” Engler wrote. “My top priority is to have a safe and respectful campus for those who learn and work here.”

In another development, MSU Board of Trustees Chairman Brian Breslin is taking a leave of absence from his job as manager of appointments for Gov. Rick Snyder.

As allowed under Michigan Civil Service rules, Snyder’s office said Breslin will take an unpaid leave of between 30 to 90 days as he and other MSU trustees grapple with continued fallout from the Nassar scandal.

“He wants to devote his attention to being on the Board of Trustees, given all the activities” Snyder told The Detroit News during a brief Tuesday interview at the state Capitol. “So I appreciated his focus on Michigan State.”

Breslin’s leave comes as the Snyder administration considers potential intervention at MSU, where the eight trustees have come under fire and face a looming no-confidence vote by the faculty senate.

The Snyder administration is reviewing options for action at MSU, “and we continue to work on that,” the governor said.

Communities Foundation of Texas

aka: The Bush Clinton Haiti Fund - Michigan

CS  43699            Communities Foundation of Texas Mailing Address:  Communities Foundation of Texas c/o Perlman & Perlman LLP, 1855 W. Baseline Rd Ste 250 Mesa, AZ 85202 Phone: (214)750-4222 Email:  info@cftexas.org Website:  cftexas.org ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION Entity Type:  Corporation State Established:  TX Date Created:  10/14/1960 501(c)(3):  Yes EIN:  75-0964565 Purpose Statement:  GENERAL SOCIAL WELFARE TO PROMOTE THE WELL-BEING OF HUMANKIND. FILING STATUS Solicitation Registration Status  Charitable Trust Registration Status  Registered - Expiration Date: 6/30/2018 Exempt FINANCIAL INFORMATION Data is taken from the organization's IRS return or, if no return was filed, from its solicitation registration or financial statements. Period Ending  06/30/2016 Total Revenue    $133,133,622.00 Total Expenses    $134,300,477.00 Revenue Less Expenses ($1,166,855.00) Reports Filed    990/CPA Audit Total Assets    $572,985,308.00 Net Assets    $504,320,296.00 Expense breakdown                             % of Total Expenses       Charitable Programs            Program Services  $122,892,435.00 91.51 %             Supporting Services                   Mgt & General*  $9,542,957.00 7.11 %            Fundraising*  $1,865,085.00 1.39 %       Total Supporting Services  $11,408,042.00 8.49 %        *If an organization files IRS Form 990-EZ or 990-PF, Supporting Services expenses may not be broken down into Mgt & General and/or Fundraising.

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