Former State of Michigan Third Judicial Circuit Court of Wayne County Judge Kelly Ann Ramsey has lost her 2016 Primary election.
Well, not yet, but if someone can promote a candidate, who says you cannot run a child's hope campaign and seek justice for the egregious deeds of this woman.
On a side note, I just got word today that the glorious Madame Maura Corrigan has slithered away, under a rock, never to be seen or heard again in the world of child welfare or politics.
I guess today should be a celebration, but I shall never celebrate until I have successfully executed my entire mission...
The Wayne County Juvenile Court, the infamous Lincoln Hall of Justice, is changing its policies. Isn't that sweet. It is now saying "judge" must sign the orders for removal of a child.
I am quite sure Kelly Ramsey, Referee and Board Member ofChild's Hopeover there at University of Michigan Dearborn, who was removed from the bench and put behind the desk in the capacity of head honcha, far away from the purview of the public, is pretty pissed right now as she was the lead person who encouraged rubber stamping of judges and even referees.
The grossest morbidity of all is found in the minds of the people who have not even considered what has happened to the children and original parents who have been victim to rubber stamping and generation of false reports to the courts. Considering the fact the it is only in Wayne County that the Attorney General prosecutes these cases, you would think they would know better than to allow rubber stamping to go on in the court.
Then, you know the Michigan Attorney General went on to fight these rubber stamps all the way up to the Supreme Court whereMaura "Cash Cow" Corriganpresided over these cases. You really do not have to guess how she ruled because most of them never saw the light of day.
The results of rubber stamping are termination of parental rights and Medicaid fraud. The gross morbidity is that nothing will happen to anyone except the children.
I encourage everyone to contact Referee Kelly Ramsey and thank her for her dedicated work in promoting the gross morbidity of child abuse propaganda.... and make sure you tell herbeverlytran.comsent you.
The Action News Investigators broke the story about how Wayne County Juvenile Court rubber stamps orders that allow the state to take kids from parents. Now, the court is changing the policy so that a judge must sign the order before a child is taken away. The change came just one day after the highly-publicized Maryanne Godboldo case in which a judge scofffed at the order used to remove her child. LK: http://legallykidnapped.blogspot.com/#ixzz1WvIcVoze
“There's a network," Wilbourn-Snapp said. "It's so deep.”
Kelly Ramsey,
One of Detroit's Queen of Fraud
in Child Welfare
This network is not restricted to Detroit, nor is it limited to Michigan, nor is it exclusive to the United States.
This network is one of what I refer to as "chattel ranching" where people validate their actions of personal inurement from the ills of children in poverty.
For example, let us look at the soon-to-be former judge Kelly Ramsey.
She sat on the board for Child's Hope and, contemporaneously, presided on the bench at Lincoln Hall of Justice, as a magistrate over child welfare cases.
Her mantra of "Tough Love" allowed for children to be drugged, raped, beaten, tortured, attempted suicide, almost on a daily basis.
Out of respect for the victims, I shall not publish the state investigative reports. Feel free to FOIA Michigan DHHS.
If this sounds like a bit of a conflict of interest, have no fear for the Michigan Judicial Tenure Committee, some of whom sat on boards of other child welfare organizations, like the former St. Vincent Sarah Fisher, found no wrong in her extra-judicial activities.
The question now presented is whether she used any of this fund for her campaign for Judge for the Wayne County Circuit Court.
I am going out there and claim this one as a positive, "yes", just because I know her. She possesses the same arrogance as the individuals mentioned in this article.
Each year, the Michigan Children's Trust Fund would send down a check averaging $20,000 for a group of individuals, normally elected and appointed officials, to look into child abuse and neglect, whatever that meant.
Well, as rumor has it, certain people within the City of Detroit would just stuff their pockets with the money. That was the only meeting they would convene.
Detroit's infamous Maserati-driving principal is waking up in prison for the first time today, though she's not in the so-called Camp Cupcake facility that housed her female predecessors who committed similar crimes.
In fact, she's not in a women's prison at all.
Kenyetta Wilbourn-Snapp, the center of a sweeping school corruption investigation in Detroit, is serving her sentence for bribery in a Kentucky prison for inmates with physical and mental health issues. Why she's at that location is not known. But the facility, whose inmates include terrorism suspects and drug traffickers, is starkly different than the so-called Camp Cupcake prison in Alderson, W.V., where former City Councilwoman Monica Conyers and ex-gallery owner Sherry Washington served their time for corruption in Detroit.
Washington is serving a seven-year sentence for bilking $3.3 million from the Detroit Public Schools through a sham wellness program. Conyers served three years for taking bribes in exchange for her vote in a $1-billion sludge deal.
Wilbourn-Snapp, a former principal at Denby and Mumford High Schools who once tooled around town in a Maserati with a Gucci vanity plate, is serving one year for taking a $58,050 bribe from a tutoring vendor. The Maserati was a gift from a vendor, she has said, previously admitting to the Free Press' Rochelle Riley that taking kickbacks from crooked vendors was a way of life for her and many Detroit school officials, and that she got her start in thievery at DPS.
As for why the federal government focused on her, she said: “They got on me because I was in bed with everybody.”
Now, Wilbourn-Snapp is waking up in a prison bed, paying for her crime alongside inmates that include:
Narseal Batiste, 42, a religious cult leader who is serving 13 years for masterminding a foiled plot to bomb the Sears Tower in Chicago in 2009.
Daniel Cowart, 28, a white supremacist who is serving 14 years for plotting a failed assassination of then-Presidential nominee in Barack Obama in 2008.
Kinde Durkee, 63, a former campaign treasure for 400 Democratic candidates who is serving eight years in prison for stealing $7 million in campaign funds and using the money to support her own business.
Wilbourn-Snapp's crime involved scamming from Detroit's lowest-performing schools when she was supposed to be helping them.
According to federal prosecutors, Wilbourn-Snapp wound up at the center of a federal probe following an audit of the Education Achievement Authority, a state-created agency designed to help Detroit's lowest-performing schools. Wilbourn-Snapp, whose high schools were part of the EAA, pleaded guilty to bribery in February, admitting she pocketed a bribe from a tutoring vendor and spent it on herself while working for the EAA.
The vendor also pleaded guilty. So did an independent contractor who delivered the bribes to Wilbourn-Snapp at a bank, and kept some for herself.
Wilbourn-Snapp's case would prove fruitful for investigators.
After charging Wilbourn-Snapp, authorities zeroed in on longtime DPS vendor Norman Shy, who unknowingly led investigators on a paper trail that would uncover a $2.7 million kickback scheme and trigger charges against 14 people: Shy, 12 DPS principals and an assistant superintendent. Shy was charged with billing DPS $2.7 million for school supplies that were never delivered with the help of principals who approved his phony invoices in exchange for kickbacks.
Out of the 14 charged in that scheme, 13 have pleaded guilty, including Shy, who faces up to seven years in prison when he is sentenced next month. In court documents -- and in the courtroom -
- several of the defendants have claimed that cutting deals with vendors was a way of life at DPS.
But It was Wilbourn-Snapp, perhaps more than anyone else, who publicly disclosed what she described as a pervasive culture of corruption that went hidden in Detroit schools for years.
"If you needed money, you could get money," Wilbourn-Snapp, 40,told Riley in a series of exclusive interviews last fall.
“There's a network," Wilbourn-Snapp said. "It's so deep.”
Judicial lobbying is something that goes on everyday, meaning that a judge can sit on the board of a child welfare organization while presiding over a case where the chid welfare organization is in front of the court. The Madame Maura Corrigan used to do it all the time.
But then, there is this particular situation.
I have not checked lately but, back in the dark ages of Michigan Child Welfare, members of the Judicial Tenure Commission used to sit on the boards of child welfare organizations, like St. Vincent Sarah Fisher Residential Center, where, if one was to file a grievance against a presiding judge in a child welfare case like St. Vincent Sarah Fisher Residential Center, the chances were 100% that the grievance would be dismissed.
Dude would not even give the chance to recuse himself when a case was brought to his court, where the defendant was St. Vincent Sarah Fisher Residential Center.
Before anyone decides to dismiss this blatant conflict of interest, let me tell you a little story about the Michigan Court of Appeals.
See, back in the 1980s, Michigan came up with this brilliant plan to stop the bottle necking of cases going to appeal.
Instead of providing due process for all citizens, the Michigan COA decided to filter cases it deemed worthy upon the reading of "a clerk", not a judge.
These judges were well aware of the questionable operations in the lower courts so the COA restructured to only take cases that would benefit their own personal interests/investments.
See, this means that I am asking the court to make a decision on whether a public official has to follow a specific statute, and if they do, the court has to make the decision whether to make the public official do it, or make them show up in court and give a good reason why they are not upholding the
law.
So, the clerk actually calls me to tell me that I had to serve the public official.
I told him I did not, pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Michigan Court Rules because it was an extraordinary writ.
Needless to say, I made him and Michael Kelly mad because no one had ever identified this error in the restructuring of the COA.
So, if you have a case, or know of a case, where you find out a judge did something jacked up like sit on a board or have financial interests with a party of a case, where that particular party committed fraud upon the court, and continues to rule in their favor, you, and the public, are just out of luck.
The Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission just sucks.
LANSING, Mich. (WXYZ) - A new rule being considered by the state's highest court could limit complaints of misconduct against judges.
Michigan's Supreme Court justices are considering adding a three-year statute of limitations to complaints filed against judges with the Judicial Tenure Commission.
According to the proposed rule, “any complaint filed more than three years after the grievant knew…or should have known...shall be dismissed.”
Since 2014, 34 judges across the state have faced some sort of action that began at the Judicial Tenure Commission, which can range from a letter of caution to being removed from the bench entirely.
"There’s just all kind of reasons why trying to defend something three years after the fact is difficult," said Brian Einhorn, an attorney in support of the rule change.
Einhorn has represented dozens of judges accused of misconduct, from former Judge Wade McCree—who carried on an affair with a litigant—to ex-Justice Diane Hathaway, who was sent to prison for bank fraud.
"If a person knows that a judge did something three and a half or four years ago, I don’t think it’s fair to the judge to have to defend himself," Einhorn said.
But not all attorneys agree. Peter Henning is a former federal prosecutor and today is a law professor at Wayne State University.
"You’re talking about an individual who has immense power and can be quite intimidating," Henning said.
"If you have certain types of cases, say for example a sexual harassment case, that may take years to surface because the individual who was harassed is going to be intimidated and might not have the strength to come forward for four or five years."
The proposed rule allows for claims outside of the three-year statute of limitations to be considered for "good cause," but critics fear the term is vague and could lead to prolonged legal battles.
"Should the judge be able to get off simply because (misconduct) happened more than three years ago?" asked Chanel 7's Ross Jones.
"But we’re dealing with something that’s probably not going to happen very often," Einhorn responded.
But there have been past examples of misconduct that could have been thrown out with a statute of limitations.
In Wayne County, Judge Bruce Morrow was disciplined for misconduct that happened years before a formal complaint was filed, including giving bond to a man after he was convicted of rape, even though state law didn’t allow it.
Morrow was suspended for two months.
Today in Livingston County, Judge Teresa Brennan is under fire for her affair with a state police officer that testified in a murder trial in her courtroom.
His testimony helped to send a man to prison.
Their affair happened more than three years before it was finally discovered.
It’s unclear if the JTC is investigating Brennan.
Still, attorney Brian Einhorn says judges shouldn’t have to defend themselves from years-old allegations, after memories fade and evidence becomes stale.
"There’s timing for doing everything," Einhorn said.
"And there’s nothing different about a judge being accused of misconduct to a lawyer being accused of malpractice to a doctor being accused of malpractice."
Except in Michigan, there is no statute of limitations for complaints against lawyers or doctors, either.
Giving judges special protection would be unique and improper, argues Carl Marlinga, who is a judge himself.
"The unintended effect, certainly, is to offer a level of protection for bad judges," Marlinga said. "With the judiciary, maximum integrity is the minimum qualification.
Anything that would protect or shield a judge from scrutiny I just think is wrong."
A decision on the proposed statute of limitations and scores of other rules currently being considered by the Michigan Supreme Court could come any day.
"What is the benefit?" asks Wayne State's Peter Henning.
"What is the upside, other than what appears to be giving judges added protections?"
She is an elected official, but in a court of law, a judge and attorney, particularly an attorney representing a government entity, can say whatever they want about you in child welfare proceedings, or actually, in civil proceedings through a written or oral argument.
Heck, Bill Schuette had his Assistant AG state into the record that I was a public nuisance for exposing fraud.
In a child custody case that made national headlines after a suburban Detroit judge jailed three children for refusing to socialize with their father, the Michigan Supreme Court has rejected a harsher punishment recommended last year — ruling that Oakland County Judge Lisa Gorcyca should be publicly censured but not suspended for her courtroom behavior.
The high court said Friday that Gorcyca committed judicial misconduct by "directing demeaning and disparaging remarks" at the children during a hearing, but that other findings of misconduct by the Judicial Tenure Commission amounted to "mere legal errors made in good faith and with due diligence," which were remedied by the appeals court.
"Public censure was proportionate to" Gorcyca's "misconduct," the court ruled.
Justice Richard Bernstein dissented in part on the finding of "mere legal errors."
"I would have adopted the findings and recommendation of the Judicial Tenure Commission to publicly censure respondent and suspend her from office for 30 days without pay," Bernstein wrote.
The ruling means Gorcyca avoids a suspension without pay and will not have to pay thousands of dollars in fines and court costs. Their decision ends a two-year saga for Gorcyca, who was accused of mishandling the bitter child-custody case that lasted more than five years.
It also vindicates her decision to appeal to the state's highest court when some had recommended that she accept the findings of the Tenure Commission and take the suspension.
The Tenure Commission ruled in November that Gorcyca had committed Judicial Misconduct in her handling of the contentious child custody case in June 2015, when she sent three children, ages 9, 10 and 13, to a juvenile detention facility for 17 days for ignoring her order to visit with their father.
She compared one child's actions to those of cult leader Charles Manson and made a circular motion with her finger near her ear as she said it.
The misconduct case against Gorcyca became a lightning rod of controversy with father-rights advocates calling her a hero. Critics complain that she tried to force the children to love someone they didn't.
A Facebook group supporting Gorcyca attracted more than 1,200 followers while another group that opposes her claims more than 1,000 followers.
The Tenure Commission had recommended suspension but only the Michigan Supreme Court can discipline judges.
Judges make $139,919 a year, so 30 days off the bench would cost Gorcyca about $11,660 in lost salary. The commission also recommended Gorcyca pay $12,553 in fines and costs.
Gorcyca had fought the case all the way to the Supreme Court.
"Judge Gorcyca has a well-deserved and well-earned reputation as a caring and superior jurist with the support of the entire family bench and bar," her lawyers, Thomas Cranmer and Christian Hildebrandt, wrote in a brief to the Supreme Court filed late last year. "A suspension of any sort, preventing her from performing her elected duties, would be an injustice."
The case involved Omer Tsimhoni and his ex-wife, Maya Eibschitz-Tsimhoni, and drew international attention after Gorcyca locked up the children.
Advocates for the parenting rights of fathers backed Tsimhoni, arguing his was a textbook case of parental alienation. At one point, the children sat in chairs in the hallway with their arms locked together, refusing to enter the courtroom.
"This case is every judge's nightmare," Cranmer said at a November hearing. "This was five years of the most contentious, vexatious litigation imaginable."
After Gorcyca was accused of judicial misconduct, the divorce case was reassigned to Judge Joan Young, who presided over it until the end of 2016 when she retired. The case continues under new Judge Victoria Valentine. Both parties are now representing themselves after spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on lawyers.
The docket shows 999 entries in the case, the most recent earlier this month, when a judge ordered the couple to list for sale the couple's former home in Ann Arbor.
In July, more than 130 family court lawyers packed Gorcyca's courtroom to show their support for her. In September, a Pontiac man was charged with threatening to kill Gorcyca, whom he feared wouldn't treat him fairly in his own child custody case.
The Michigan Office of the Auditor General has just released its report on the Michigan Children's Trust Fund, State Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services and it verifies everything I have ever said about it.
It is nothing but a trafficking tiny humans slush fund fraud.
I should know.
I have listened to many individuals who sat on these regional boards who told me that they do not even gather for meetings except on who is going to divvy up to loot.
The fund balance of 2016 was $26.7 million.
Why, oh why do these people keep using tiny humans to make money?
Alright, I shall tell you: the Children's Defense Fund and TARP.
Total assets of the Children's Defense Fund for FY 2014 were $35,129,433.00
The State Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board has absolutely no accountability on what it does with its Child Abuse Propaganda funding.
Yes, the Michigan Children's Trust Fund funds the generation of propaganda to promote its privatized social impact bonded, third party programs by making local child abuse and neglect council members "Fat, Dumb & Happy", as seen on the faces of the persons in the video.
The Audit found 4 reportable conditions, meaning, they found fraud and snitched to the feds.
I typically do not refer to the multiple jurisdictions of federal government as "feds", but in this instance, there are so many different avenues the Ringler may take to report these GAGAS violations.
It makes me all warm and fuzzy inside just thinking about which federal investigative entities will be looking for my guidance.
What is the stashed amount for Q1 FY 2018?
WARNING: The video you are about to see contains graphic images of the privatized stakeholder, Mark McDaniel, CEO of Cinnaire, a multi-billion dollar corporation that generates profit from trafficking tiny humans and stealing land using TARP, who are trying really hard to care about tiny humans of "The Poors" (always said with clinched teeth), by laundering money through the Children's Trust Fund.
These people profited from the death of Ricky Holland and two boys who survived the privatization of torture and trafficking of tiny humans because no one cares about children of "The Poors" (always said with clinched teeth).
Your TARP funds at work.
In a recent jaunt through the politically insipid rants of Facebook, I came across a surfeit of comments in defense of the malfeasance of these Detroit Public School officials who have been sentenced to federal prison for pilfering the "best interests of the child", mostly children of special needs.
What was most repulsive to me was that the individual who made the original post is currently vying for a political position of leadership within this educational organization for Detroit children.
Out of respect for the ignorant, I shall provide opportunity for this individual candidate and their constituents to rethink launching a public defense of public corruption by omitting names.
As the thread went, the justification for the call to not issue federal sentences of incarceration was based in, I can only assume, an enumerated affirmative defense of:
"Civil Rights"; and,
Governor Snyder does it, so why cannot they do it?
Seriously. They actually attempted to pull the race card to defend stealing from poor kids by calling it a violation of civil rights.
If they really wanted to use the civil rights argument, I guess they could say that these educational fraudfeasors were denied an education in ethics due to the discriminatory disparities of educational opportunities growing up in Detroit Public Schools, which is basically a public admission that they were too stupid to understand that YOU DO NOT STEAL PUBLIC DOLLARS FROM VULNERABLE CHILDREN AND THEN LIE ABOUT IT!!!
But wait! It gets better. This "wanna-be-a-member" of "The Elected Onces" who has constructed a campaign platform out of race cards, cannot even claim to be an official race card carrying member.
Well, I just decided to end the social media spectacle by simply asking if they were part of the Child Welfare Fraud Network in Detroit (of which they probably are.)
So far, I have yet to receive a response. Perhaps it has to do with the fact that I hash tagged #DOJ in the comments of the thread.
If fraud can flourish in Detroit Public Schools, then my premise that it is rampant throughout the entire child welfare system of Michigan is highly plausible.
The victims are not just the children, but also the families who care for these children in need and the future economies of society as a whole.
Looks like some Detroit candidates just lost campaign funding. Oops. Did I do that, Kelly Ramsey?
But the judge sentenced them all to prison — longer than the defendants preferred, but shorter than what prosecutors had hoped — for helping a millionaire businessman cheat the state’s poorest schoolchildren out of $2.7 million in supplies.
“They need to know that they all deserve better than what these principals gave us,” U.S. District Judge Victoria Roberts said Thursday in sentencing four more Detroit principals to prison for stealing from the students they were supposed to protect.
In a sensational school corruption trial that has triggered public outrage and planted a bull's-eye on Detroit’s struggling schools, Roberts handed down sentences that ranged from six months to one year to four ex-principals who took kickbacks fromvendor Norman Shy as rewards for approving his phony invoices. The scheme, prosecutors said, cheated DPS out of $2.7 million in school supplies that were paid for but never delivered.
Prosecutors had argued for stiffer penalties — in some cases double what the defendants got — but Roberts took into account the principals' otherwise clean records and years of good deeds.
For Spain Elementary Principal Ronald Alexander, whose school won a $500,000 giveaway on the Ellen DeGeneres talk show in February, any prison sentence was too severe. At least that’s what he argued to the judge as he called himself “a hero”who lived for his students and school community.
“All I have ever done is give my best to these children,” Alexander said. “I buried three students because the kids’ parents didn’t have money — out of my own pocket … I love this school. It think it's unfair."
Alexander, who received a one-year prison sentence for accepting $23,000 in kickbacks from Shy and a $23,000 restitution order, blamed his legal troubles on the vendor.
"Mr. Shy — he did me wrong. He was saying he gave me donations," Alexander said, referring to the gift cards and checks that Shy gave him over the years.
Alexander said he spent it on the kids.
"I did not pad my pockets … some of the gift cards are still at home," he said later, blaming Shy again. "He's a known crook and he's been doing it for years."
Alexander also stressed that he needed to stay out of prison so that he could care for his 87-year-old mother. He also talked about his army of supporters — students, staff, religious leaders and the parent association at Spain Elementary School, which wrote the judge a letter saying it wants Alexander back.
"Nobody knows how bad I feel to have to go out from my job like this," Alexander said. ,"I'm sad. I'm hurt. I feel bad. … I should be judged by the life I have lived. … I'm not the bad person that the federal (government) has accused me" of being.
Roberts reminded him that he had pleaded guilty.
"This is verbatim from your (plea) agreement," Roberts said. "This court and government doesn't have to make up anything. You signed it."
Roberts also rebuffed Alexander’s claim that he was hoodwinked by Shy.
"You are not blameless. You had everything in your hands," Roberts said. "Mr. Shy did not make you commit a crime."
Johnson, 60, the former principal at Charles Drew Academy and Earhart Elementary-Middle School, pleaded guilty to bribery in May and said she spent her kickbacks in two ways: buying jewelry, perfume and clothing for herself and helping her school.
In addition to the year behind bars, Roberts ordered Johnson to pay $22,884 in restitution to DPS.
“You essentially robbed Peter to pay Peter. It was their money,” Roberts said, referring to the students who were cheated out of school supplies.
Johnson said she was sorry.
"I apologize to DPS, and most of all, I apologize to my students,” she said.
Former principal Tanya Bowman also was apologetic as she received a nine-month prison sentence for accepting $12,500 in kickbacks from Shy.
The former principal of Osborn Collegiate Academy of Mathematics, Science and Technology also was ordered to pay $12,500 in restitution to DPS. Bowman said she failed her students after spending her life trying to do the right thing and teaching students to do the same.
“I accept full responsibility. … I am at peace with whatever decision you decide to make,” Bowman said.
Roberts noted that Bowman rebuffed Shy’s efforts to continue the scheme once she left Osborn, but also said that Bowman spent some of the gift cards on personal items at Saks Fifth Avenue and Banana Republic. The judge said she received a flood of letters from people who support Bowman and noted that the school's parent group is still behind Bowman.
Roberts, however, said her sentence was not just for Bowman, but for students, parents and other educators.
Former special education principal Tia Von Moore-Patton received the lightest sentence handed down Thursday — six months — but she also took the smallest kickback from Shy: six gift cards totaling $4,000.
Moore-Patton, 46, principal at Jerry White Center High School, pleaded guilty to bribery in May and faced 12-18 months in prison under the terms of her plea agreement. She admitting to helping Shy bill DPS for goods that never reached her school, which educates students who are autistic, visually impaired, hearing impaired or severely cognitively impaired.
"I made a poor decision," Moore-Patton said in court . "And I apologize. I'd like to apologize to my students, because my students mean everything."
Moore-Patton described herself as an altruistic educator who made a mistake because "I wanted to give so much." She was hoping to avoid prison, arguing she could serve her sentence in the community, perhaps working for free in a school setting.
But Roberts couldn't justify keeping her free, she said, stressing Moore-Patton helped a businessman cheat DPS students out of supplies to which they were entitled.
"The conduct that she engaged in is serious," said Roberts, who took issue with all of the accused principals' claims that they had suffered plenty and deserved mercy. "The students have suffered far more than any defendant, including you, Ms. Patton."
Moore-Patton was among 14 defendants charged in March with participating in Shy’s kickback scheme. The kickbacks came in a variety of forms, including gift cards, checks, new gutters, a new roof, payments to friends and family and credit card bill payments. Out of the 14 defendants, 13 have pleaded guilty. Eight have been sentenced. Shy, the mastermind, received the stiffest sentence: five years. He also has to pay $2.7 million in restitution to DPS. Assistant superintendent Clara Flowers received a three-year sentence on Tuesday for accepting $324,785 in kickbacks from Shy. She also has to pay the kickbacks back to DPS as restitution. That was the stiffest sentence so far out of any educator.
Ronnie Sims, ex-principal of Fleming Elementary and Brenda Scott Middle School, was sentenced Wednesday to 15 months in prison for pocketing nearly $59,000 in kickbacks from Shy.
Nina Graves-Hicks, ex-principal at Davis Aerospace Technical High School, was sentenced to one year in prison for accepting $27,385 in kickbacks from Shy. Her kickbacks included gift cards to Bed Bath and Beyond, Dress Barn and Perfumania.
Three more principals will be sentenced next week; one in October.
The only defendant who has not pleaded guilty in the case is Josette Buendia, 50, of Garden City, principal at Bennett Elementary School. She is charged with accepting $45,775 in kickbacks from Shy.
None of the accused DPS principals work at the district anymore. Some already had retired before the charges were filed; the others were let go.
This is Michigan's finest work of Child Welfare Propaganda. What horrified me the most is that I know these people. I know these organizations. I know what they covered up because I lived it. I have my documents but the state and court files were shredded. Just ask Kelly Ramsey a fellow alumni.
This is an email communication response to my question of Medicaid fraud in child welfare.
Dear Ms. Tran,
I serve as the coordinator of our Faith Communities Coalition on Foster Care. The Kirk in the Hills Foster Care ministry team has been planning to host our next meeting at the Kirk on Nov. 8.
Yvonne Rundell, one of the Kirk’s coordinators, forwarded your email to me. In it you asked an important question,“Will the DHS Director be speaking about Medicaid fraud in child welfare and if not, why?”
I believe that we share in the general concern about fiscal responsibility on all levels of our government and child welfare agencies. You need to know, however, that the purpose of our Faith Communities Coalition on Foster Care meetings is not about political or economic matters-but rather on the spiritual issues which compel us to awaken awareness in our diverse congregations about the desperate needs of our foster children and youth in Michigan.
Our meetings are geared to challenge every congregation to take some small part in collaborating with service agencies to help change the life of a child. We seek to inform members of faith communities of this crisis and to motivate action through collaboration and partnerships on a grassroots level.
To further clarify the content and focus of our meetings, here is something which Detroit Public Television recently did on our work:http://www.youtube.com/user/saveourchildren1.
The November 8 meeting with Director Corrigan and others already has a tight agenda with the focus on getting responses from local congregations to help. So to answer your question directly, this is not the setting to address the issues you are raising. There will be no place to address your concerns, nor is there time for questions and answers from the floor.
Instead, we have allocated time for individuals to visit the 24 booths of our local service agencies to form partnerships to serve our foster children.
Here is a copy of our notice. I hope this further clarifies our intent.
WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW IN FOSTER CARE?
State Director Maura Corrigan, of the Michigan Department of Human Services, to speak at the next Faith Communities Coalition on Foster Care meeting
Tuesday, November 8, 2011, 6:30pm, Kirk in the Hills Refectory, 1340 W. Long Lake Rd, Bloomfield Hills, Hear dynamic presentations and updates concerning foster care and adoption in Michigan. Local service agencies will provide booths of information on ways individuals can make a difference. Large or small contributions all add up to help change a life. For more information and reservationscontact Katie Page Sander, director of the Save Our Children Coalition at kpage@umd.umich.edu313.593.5052or the FCC coordinator, Rev. Kate Thoresen at 248.835.8151.
If you would like for me to forward your email and issues to Director Corrigan, I’d be glad to do that.
I hope that you will find people of similar interests to pursue your concerns in settings that provide opportunities for the dialogue you seek. Meanwhile, you are welcome to come and experience the energy, enthusiasm and dedication of our many foster and adoptive parents and all those who seek to serve together to make a difference in the life of a child.
. .Warm regards,
Kate Thoresen, Coordinator of the Faith Communities Coalition on Foster Care,
a community outreach of the Save Our Children Coalition, University of Michigan, Dearborn, School of Education, Katie Page Sander, director Phone:313-593-5052; email: SOCCProject@umd.umich.edu ; www.SaveOurChildrenCoalition.org
This was my response:
Kate,
Thank you for your response.
As an external consultant to the U.S. Judiciary and personal advisor to U.S. Representative John Conyers, Jr., I will ask you to join the national stage in bringing awareness to child welfare fraud as it has been raised to the national agenda, proceeding with federal investigations and hearings. Perhaps we can partner to have a public forum to discuss the role of child welfare organizations, such as yourself, in protecting the civil rights of those individuals who wish to report as Medicaid fraud in child welfare whistleblowers and the components of the State Medicaid Fraud Office of Inspector General legislation.
Now, allow me to share the general concern about spiritual issueswhich compel me to awaken your awareness to the desperate need of ameliorating Medicaid fraud in child welfare.
In numerous instances, children are improperly and unnecessarily removed from the home and placed in foster care. In even more situations, the original custodians and guardians are stripped of any access to due process to challenge the validity of placement of the child.
What is even worse, poverty is codified as the crime of abuse and neglect leading to an artificial need for increased services and the filing of false claims.
Medicaid fraud in child welfare was so rampant during the time of the creation of your coalitionthat children were being severed from their legacies to suffer at the hands of poor and inadequate services, many which aredouble-billedand phantom services, for no reason more than a false cost reimbursement inTargeted Case Management.
I respect that this forum is only for the promotion of your private agenda but challenge you to address the pervasive multi-billion dollar industry of child welfare fraud as there is no oversight toprivatizationof thechild welfare industry.
What will you do to reduce the need for foster care? What will you do to end improper and unnecessary removals of children? What will you do to stop the drugging of foster children? What will you do to stop Medicaid fraud in child welfare? These are the spiritual issues which have been abused and neglected from public discussion.
I thank you and shall take you up on your offer to forward my concerns to the Director, but I shall give you advanced notice that she will avoid addressing the situation of Medicaid fraud in child welfare at all legal costs. This is why I have approached you.
I look forward to working with you in the near future.
Let's see if they acknowledge that there is fraud in child welfare or watch them run and hide under the Rock of Jesus, oops, I mean the iron curtain, because you know Save Our Children Coalition is comprised only of Christian organizations.
To make the historical story of foster care and adoption short and sweet, allow me to cost-effectively sum up the policy for the Industry of Human Trafficking:
Poverty is abuse and neglect. Abuse and neglect is a crime. A parent(s) who is poor abuses and neglects the child. The state must protect the welfare of the child. The state never questions the work of God. Foster care and adoption residential institutions are in the name of God. People and corporations make tax write-off financial contributions to the institutions. Children get medicated; pharmaceutical companies get profit; social workers get jobs. The longer a child is in foster care; the more jobs are sustained. Sustaining and creating jobs saves money for the state. Foster parenting is a job. The state and the institutions are given financial incentives and receive financial rewards for each child transitioned into adoption. Michigan needs to make budget cuts. Michigan needs to create more jobs. Foster parenting is significantly more economical than an institution. Adoptive families receive financial rewards for each child adopted. The state no longer is financially responsible for the child. The state is no longer financially responsible for the birth parent. Everyone contributes to the economy. A stronger economy eradicates poverty. Poverty is a crime. When you stop poverty, you stop abuse and neglect.
This is why no one wants regulation or reform of the multi-billion dollarhealth care.
If I have offended anyone, then I suggest you stand up and do something about it.
