The Tale Of The "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending): Sidney Powell & Rudy Giuliani Accuse John Conyers, Jr. Of Public Corruption Without Demanding Due Process

Yes, Sidney Powell & Rudy Giuliani are "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending) as they hold a press conference to utter and publish accusations that "The Elected Ones" of the politically stratified districts under John Conyers, Jr. were rift with public corruption.

I say we investigate!

Or, have we already?

I say Sidney and Rudy should go ask Rashida if there is still political corruption of criminal activities still going on in her congressional district.

Oh, Sidney and Rudy should go ask Rashida to call for an investigation into these alleged treasonous activities of Detroit by filing, first, with the U.S. Committee on Ethics.

Drats!

I forgot, that was already done, quite a few times, if I correctly recall.

Anyway, just watch them do the legal dilatory distraction dance, because we are already in Detroit, just watching the world realize, that the heavens are falling because this is about gerrymandering, or rather, stealin' the children, land & vote.

Watch Sidney and Rudy not say his name as they speak upon Detroit and Voting Rights, while demanding due process, but not for my Sweetie.

#maytheheavensfall

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The Tale Of The Electoral College: The Predictive Modeling Crappers Of Tyler Are Not Having A Very Good Lead Up To The Presidential Election - "Drats, Hacked Again"

Tyler Technologies is not in a happy place at the moment, but I am having a schadenfreude moment, so it does not matter.

Now, I want to know about these databases and if there are any land patents with fancy financial instruments associated, because this is what I call some serious gerrymandering, because you know you have to have your human asset management databases up to date before you run your magical plans for the outcome of an election, at least 30 days before the election, to make sure you got your psephological, resegregationary #coloredrevolution fairy talking points polished.

NOTE TO SELF: COME UP WITH A MODERN SOOTHESAYING AI TERM FOR GERRYMANDERING & ITS DIRTY DATA CENSUS OPS

Feature Detail Report for: City of Detroit ID: 1626181 Name: City of Detroit Class: Civil (Definitions) Citation: Census County/Townships, CDP's and incorporated cities - Bureau of Census, Geography Division, coordinates are located at the centroid. If known, the year the data were compiled follows: c1994 Entry Date: 01-Sep-1995 *Elevation: 636/194 *Elevations in feet/meters from the National Elevation Dataset Federal Codes Census Code Census Class Code 22000 C5 Class Code Description: Incorporated Places. An active incorporated place that is independent of any county subdivision and serves as a county subdivision equivalent. Counties Sequence County Code State Code Country 1 Wayne 163 Michigan 26 US Coordinates (One point per USGS topographic map containing the feature, NAD83) Sequence Latitude(DEC) Longitude(DEC) Latitude(DMS) Longitude(DMS) Map Name 1 42.3833913 -83.1024125 422300N 0830609W Highland Park 2 42.4128521 -83.2662321 422446N 0831558W Redford 3 42.3588692 -83.2578599 422132N 0831528W Inkster 4 42.4115362 -82.9640495 422442N 0825751W Grosse Pointe 5 42.3519267 -83.2187500 422107N 0831308W Dearborn 6 42.3565675 -82.9690129 422124N 0825808W Belle Isle 7 42.4100816 -83.1870580 422436N 0831113W Royal Oak 8 42.3411226 -83.0719273 422028N 0830419W Detroit

Suspicious logins reported after ransomware attack on US govt contractor

Ransomware attack on Tyler Technologies is looking worse by the day.

Customers of Tyler Technologies, one of the biggest software providers for the US state and federal government, are reporting finding suspicious logins and previously unseen remote access tools (RATs) on their networks and servers.

The reports come days after Tyler Technologies admitted last week to suffering a ransomware attack.

The Texas-based company said that an intruder gained access to its internal network on the morning of Wednesday, September 23.

The intruder installed ransomware that locked access to some of the company's internal documents.

Tyler initially played down the incident

Tyler played down the incident and said that only its internal corporate network and phone systems were impacted.

Its cloud infrastructure, where the company hosts its customer-facing applications, was not impacted, the company said in a statement published on its website and via emails sent to customers last week.

But over the weekend, the situation changed as Tyler made headway investigating the incident. The company changed its statement on Saturday.

"Because we have received reports of several suspicious logins to client systems, we believe precautionary password resets should be implemented," the company said.

"If clients haven't already done so, we strongly recommend that you reset passwords on your remote network access for Tyler staff and the credentials that Tyler personnel would use to access your applications, if applicable." [emphasis Tyler's]

Customers report remote access tools on their servers

At the same, some of Tyler's customers also reported seeing new software installed on their systems.

"If you're a Tyler customer check your servers for Bomgar that they installed," wrote one of many users on Reddit over the weekend.

A similar report followed on Monday from cyber-security training outfit SANS.

"One of our readers, a Tyler Technologies's customer, reported to us that he found this morning the Bomgar client (BeyondTrust) installed on one of his servers," said Xavier Mertens, one of the SANS ISC handlers.

According to users, Tyler uses the Bomgar client to manage its servers, but some reports claim the software was not installed prior to this weekend, prompting some to panic.

While Tyler insists in its updated statement that the attack was aimed at its internal system, customers now believe attackers might have gained access to passwords for Tyler's web-hosted infrastructure that were stored on the company's local network — and attackers are now escalating access to Tyler's client networks.

While the Tyler Technologies name might not say anything to the regular American, the ransomware attack on this company's network might quietly become one of the biggest cyber-attacks of the year, if indeed attackers gained access to passwords for customer networks and the Reddit and SANS reports aren't isolated cases.

According to its website, Tyler provides more than 50 types of web-based applications to the US public sector, such as student and school management software, public transport management solutions, jail management, courts and jury management systems, cyber-security solutions, tax and billing software, fire and EMS solutions, and entire city staff management systems, known as "Munis," just to name a few.

According to Reuters, which first broke the story about the ransomware attack, some of Tyler's software is also scheduled to be used in the upcoming US presidential election — for aggregating voting results from other sources into central dashboards."

The gang behind the Tyler attack was identified as the RansomExx group.

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Government software provider Tyler Technologies hit by ransomware

Leading government technology services provider Tyler Technologies has suffered a ransomware attack that has disrupted its operations.

Tyler Technologies is one of the largest U.S. software development and technology services companies dedicated to the public sector.

With a forecasted $1.2 billion in revenue for 2020 and 5,500 employees, Tyler Technologies provides technical services for local governments in many states in the USA.

Starting earlier today, Tyler Technologies' website began to display a maintenance message, and their Twitter account tweeted that they were having technical difficulties.

In an email seen by BleepingComputer, Tyler Technologies CIO Matt Bieri emailed clients stating that they are investigating a cyberattack and have notified law enforcement.

"I am writing to make you aware of a security incident involving unauthorized access to our internal phone and information technology systems by an unknown third party. We are treating this matter with the highest priority and working with independent IT experts to conduct a thorough investigation and response."

"Early this morning, we became aware that an unauthorized intruder had disrupted access to some of our internal systems. Upon discovery and out of an abundance of caution, we shut down points of access to external systems and immediately began investigating and remediating the problem. We have since engaged outside IT security and forensics experts to conduct a detailed review and help us securely restore affected equipment. We are implementing enhanced monitoring systems, and we have notified law enforcement," Bieri stated in an email to clients.

Bieri also stated that current investigations indicate that the attack was limited to Tyler Technologies' local network.

In posts to the Municipal Information Systems Association of California (MISAC) forum shared with BleepingComputer, local government employees were told that Tyler Technologies suffered a ransomware attack affecting their phone ticketing system and support systems.

"We were told this morning from one of the support techs that they got hit with ransomware early this morning on their corporate networks. Don't have any other details at this point other than support is down until they access their systems," one local municipality employee posted to the MISAC forum.

Another MISAC user stated that they heard the attack was limited to Tyler Technologies' internal network and did not affect clients.

If you have first-hand information about this or other unreported cyberattacks, you can confidentially contact us on Signal at +16469613731 or on Wire at @lawrenceabrams-bc.

Tyler technologies hit by RansomExx ransomware

Cybersecurity sources familiar with the attack told BleepingComputer that Tyler Technologies suffered an attack by the RansomExx ransomware.

 

RansomExx is a rebranded version of the Defray777 ransomware and has seen increased activity since June when they attacked the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), Konica Minolta, and most recently IPG Photonics.

While BleepingComputer has not obtained the ransom note, we found an encrypted file uploaded to VirusTotal today related to this attack.

This encrypted file has an extension of '.tylertech911-f1e1a2ac,' which includes Tyler Technologies' name and is the same format used in other RansomExx attacks.

RansomExx does not have a ransomware data leak site, but that does not mean they do not steal unencrypted files before deploying their ransomware.

BleepingComputer has contacted Tyler Technologies with further questions but has not received a response.

Thx to Fate112 for the tip!

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The Tale Of The Electoral College: Tyler Technologies Is Not Havin A Very Good Week With Its Crappy Predictive Modeling Electoral College Databases

Tyler Technologies is not having a very good week.

Wanna know why?

Because, "She was hoisted by her own petard, again."

IDIOTS!

Meet the Electoral College Corporate Parent of the vote, because in order to vote, one must live in the

National Governors Association

geopolitical district, which is administrated by SOCRATA, like all the municipal property taxes, and county registry of deeds, and court records, and school records, and Medicaid fraud in child welfare records, which are used through the certification process of the vote, to generate a finding on the Electoral College votes for a POTUS.

So, that would mean if there was a situation of fake ass property taxes, fake ass foreclosures, fake ass bankruptcy, fake ass Detroit Land Bank Authority, running some fake ass public and private mortgage fraud schemes in the name of the tax exempt lord, there would definitely not be found any corruption in the chain of command of the record when it comes to the chain of command of the certification of the election, in a situation of more illegitimate certifiers, covering up all the mean things they did to my Sweetie, because something like that would just jack the entire 2016 Presidential Election Algorithm, right?

National Conference of State Legislatures

 U.S. Presidential Elections are based on the Electoral College, not the popular vote, which is why the issue is election interference.

They negotiate who wins before the vote.

But, when those wily plans go awry, we have a serious question ask ourselves"

"When will Trump stop obstructing justice and pull that IG Report from his backpocket?"

#maytheheavensfall

Tyler Technologies: Ransomware Locked Our Network, But Election Info Not At Risk

In a late Friday afternoon update to the single page of attack information that now passes for Tyler Technologies’ website, the company admitted to being hit by ransomware, but insisted customers were safe.

Tyler Technologies has copped to the ransomware attack that still has the company’s phone lines and website off line.

In an update to its online statement, Plano, Texas-based Tyler confirmed that early Sept. 23 it was hit with ransomware. It did not specify which variant was used against its network.

The company -- No. 46 on the 2019 CRN Solution Provider 500 -- is sticking by its claims that the only portion of its system that was attacked was the internal network used by Tyler Technologies employees, as well as the telephone systems.

Tyler said addressing this with clients is the company’s “highest priority.”

“We are deploying every resource at our disposal, both internal and external, to take whatever steps are needed to return to business as usual,” the company said. “We are committed to doing that in a responsible, deliberate way, and we are laser-focused on those efforts.”

Tyler said it has been in contact with the FBI “and we are cooperating with them.”

The attack on Tyler Technologies is setting off alarm bells in the security community, not just because it is yet another ransomware attack this year against a massive solution provider, but because the company’s website and phone system remains down.

Kyle Hanslovan, CEO of Huntress Labs, said solution providers that are Tyler’s size typically have network redundancies built in, meaning the phone systems and website should be restorable quickly. The fact that the site has not yet come back online, likely means Tyler does not know the extent of the intrusion.

“It’s concerning. Redundancies are hard. Redundancies are expensive, but they should be part of any company’s resiliency plan,” he said. “They could be one of these companies that is very operationally mature when it comes to sales and products, but inside their network it is a house of cards.”

A call to Tyler’s spokeswoman could not be routed through the switchboard, an operator who picked up the phone yesterday said.

“We’re still having problems with the phones,” she said. In an email, a spokesperson directed CRN to an update on the website. Tyler’s website – which was offline following the attack – has been replaced by a single-page statement about the ransomware attack, a part of which insists that none of its clients’ systems were accessed.

“Based on all of the evidence gathered to date through our around-the-clock response efforts, all information available to us continues to indicate that this incident is limited to Tyler‘s internal corporate environment and does not impact the separate environment where we host client systems,” the statement reads. “ We have disconnected points of access between Tyler’s internal systems and our client systems to further protect our clients.”

The company also said its internal payroll systems are part of a separate system and were also not hit.

However, Hanslovan said it is very difficult for the best security forensics to determine how far-reaching an attack was, even weeks afterwards. At best, those reports will only indicate “high confidence” that an attack did not spread beyond the area that it impacted.

Tyler Technologies serves 15,000 customers around the world, but focuses primarily on state and local government customers. The company offers dozens of solutions for courts, police, EMS, fire department, probation, as well as resourced to pay parking tickets and water bills.

The company bought Socrata, an advanced AI platform in 2018, which extracts information from municipal systems giving decision makers actionable datasets used in urban planning. A part of that includes data from elections departments, raising the concern that ransomware actors could be attempting to tamper with elections.

The company said the Socrata system is housed on an AWS server and has not been touched.

“Based on all of the evidence gathered to date through our around-the-clock response efforts, all information available to us continues to indicate that this incident is limited to Tyler‘s internal corporate environment and does not impact the separate environment where we host client systems. In addition, our Socrata platform is hosted offsite on AWS (Amazon Web Services), and our Tyler Federal Entellitrak and Tyler Cybersecurity platforms are maintained in entirely separate environments. There is no evidence of any impact on those environments whatsoever.

The company also insisted that none of its products are used in voting. The Socrata system reads the information that is provided.

“None of our products is a system of record for voting or any other election- or voting-related activities. Users of our open data solution may use our platform to post aggregated information about election returns, or to provide information about polling stations and campaign finance, but Tyler does not store individual voting records. Our open data solution is hosted offsite on AWS, not on Tyler‘s internal network that was impacted.”

The company also disputed some online comments that its utility bill payment systems used by cities and towns was having trouble following the outage.

“Tyler‘s Online Services and Support teams have reviewed all the logs, monitoring, traffic reports, volume reports, and cases related to utility and court payments,” the company said. “There were no outages with any of our online payment systems and payment activity has functioned normally during this time.”

Brett Callows, a threat analyst at Emsisoft, said the looming U.S. election, and the danger posed by ransomware to municipal systems, regardless of vendor, is real.

“The threat ransomware groups present cannot be overstated,” he said. “They’re using APT-level tools and techniques to successfully attack - and extract data from - courts, government agencies, companies in the Defence Industrial Base sector, financial institutions and public and private entities in multiple other sectors. These incidents could potentially be a risk to national security, economic security and, of course, election security.”

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The Tale Of Tyler Technologies: Gerrymandering Child Welfare #coloredrevolution Psyoptics With Noel French & Tristan Taylor Featuring The Detroit Will Breathe Manifesto

Gather round, my Dearies, for I shall tell another tale of stealin' the children, land & vote.

For some odd reason, there are those, like our newest up and coming Superstar, Tristan Taylor, who do not want a federal presence in Detroit.

Protesters push back against Federal presence in Detroit

But, it seems the miracle of soap and water was bestowed upon Tristan. when he was arrested, where he magically transformed from a Detroit "urban pioneer" hipster into a surprisingly, very well organized advocate of due process, where his group, Detroit Will Breathe, just so happens to state in its Articles of Incorporation as a Domestic Non Profit Corporation:

ARTICLE II The purpose or purposes for which the corporation is formed are: The purpose for which the corporation is incorporated is to promote social welfare within the meaning of section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code, including but not limited to, with the use of militant resistance and mass collective action, achieving meaningful local reforms and opposing any an all forms of police brutality, systemic racism, and exploitation across the country and globally. 

The last time I checked IRS Codes, I failed to find any wording on granting tax exempt status on an organization that prominently included in its Articles of Organization a manifesto purpose to overthrow the government by and through a well organized militia.





Well, it seems there are no IRS 501c3 filings, but I did find this:

https://ventureforamerica.org/

https://pdf.guidestar.org/PDF_Images/2018/272/987/2018-272987904-10d324d7-9.pdf?_ga=2.206880214.497368423.1598569335-2005330069.1549490055


Venture for America is creating economic opportunity in American cities by mobilizing the next generation of entrepreneurs and equipping them with the skills and resources they need to create jobs.

Noel French seems to be the "Legal Genius" (trademark pending) behind the Corporate Shape Shifting of Detroit Will Breathe.

Noel French

Someone is most definitely going to have to ask Noel to bear the arms of the corporate parent.

Noel has experience working with businesses, social enterprises, charitable nonprofits, and creative professionals in areas of law including entity setup and compliance, contracts, and trademark selection and registration. He is currently based in Detroit but serves clients across Michigan. He has performed pro bono service for organizations and artists in various disciplines through the unfortunately shuttered Lawyers for the Creative Economy, and past speaking engagements include Art Prize, Wayne State University, and as a guest speaker at Build Institute.

I really wanted to know if Noel had any associations with Michael Brady, one of my former attorneys over there at the Detroit Land Bank Authority.

So, of course, the first thing I did was to go to the Wayne County Land Records, where, what do you think I found?

Go ahead, take a guess.

Tyler out of Texas was running the Wayne County Land Records website, because it has a .com extension and not .gov, which means there are unknown administrators who can just, whenever they want, probably from a cell phone, can manipulate recordkeeping in one fast swoosh of a delete, leaving no need for complex bleachbitting.

https://whois.domaintools.com/waynecountylandrecords.com
Domain Profile      https://www.waynecountylandrecords.com/recorder/web/
Registrant REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Registrant Org REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Registrant Country us
Registrar Domain.com, LLC
IANA ID: 886
URL: www.domain.com,http://www.domain.com
Whois Server: whois.domain.com

(p)
Registrar Status ok
Dates 7,219 days old
Created on 2000-11-21
Expires on 2021-11-21
Updated on 2018-08-08   
Name Servers NS1.DOTSTER.COM (has 108,328 domains)
NS2.DOTSTER.COM (has 108,328 domains)
  
Tech Contact REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
REDACTED FOR PRIVACY,
REDACTED FOR PRIVACY, REDACTED FOR PRIVACY, REDACTED FOR PRIVACY, REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
IP Address 208.64.239.179 is hosted on a dedicated server
  
IP Location United States Of America - Texas - Plano - Tyler Technologies Inc.
ASN United States Of America AS6606 TYLERTECH-6606, US (registered Jun 10, 1996)
Domain Status Registered And Active Website
IP History 6 changes on 6 unique IP addresses over 15 years   
Registrar History 3 registrars   
Hosting History 8 changes on 5 unique name servers over 17 years   
 Website
Website Title None given.   
Response Code 200
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TYLER TECHNOLOGIES, INC. BRANCH
Company Number
2005022500022
Status
Active
Incorporation Date
24 February 2005 (over 15 years ago)
Company Type
Foreign For-Profit Corporation
Jurisdiction
Indiana (US)
Branch
Branch of TYLER TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (Delaware (US))
Registered Address
5101 TENNYSON PARKWAY, PLANO, TX 75024
United States
Agent Name
CAPITOL CORPORATE SERVICES INC
Agent Address
155 E. MARKET STREET, SUITE 800, INDIANAPOLIS, IN, 46204, USA
Directors / Officers
ABIGAIL DIAZ, other
ANNE P. CAFFEY, secretary
BRENDA A. CLINE, director
Brian K. MIller, vice president
CAPITOL CORPORATE SERVICES INC, agent
DONALD R. BRATTAIN, director
DUSTIN R. WOMBLE, vice president
GLENN A. CARTER, director
H. LYNN MOORE, vice president
J. LUTHER KING, director
JOHN M. YEAMAN, director
JOHN S MARR, JR, president
MICHAEL SMITH, vice president
TERRI ALFORD, other
SEE ALL
Registry Page
https://bsd.sos.in.gov/PublicBusiness...
RSS feed icon
Recent filings for TYLER TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
13 Mar 2017
CHANGE OF REGISTERED OFFICE/AGENT
10 Feb 2017
BUSINESS ENTITY REPORT
19 Dec 2014
BUSINESS ENTITY REPORT
5 Sep 2014
CHANGE OF REGISTERED OFFICE/AGENT
5 Sep 2014
NOTICE OF CHANGE OF REGISTERED OFFICE OR REGISTERED AGENT
26 Feb 2013
BUSINESS ENTITY REPORT
16 Dec 2010
BUSINESS ENTITY REPORT
1 May 2009
CHANGE OF REGISTERED OFFICE/AGENT
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Meet the Corporate Parent of Wayne County Register of Deeds. Administers of Human Asset Data Management for stealin' the children, land & vote.

TYLER TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Company Number
2213292
Incorporation Date
13 November 1989 (almost 31 years ago)
Company Type
Corporation
Jurisdiction
Delaware (US)
Agent Name
CAPITOL SERVICES, INC
Agent Address
1675 S STATE ST STE B, DOVER, Kent, DE, 19901
Directors / Officers
CAPITOL SERVICES, INC, agent
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Now, the questions brewing are the following:

How come I cannot get into the State of Indiana UCC system to see if there are any liens on the Tyler Technologies, Inc. branch office, registered in the State of Texas through the State of Delaware, where I might just go with Ukraine, simply because of the date of incorporation, and the fact that I have previously covered this?

How come Tyler Technologies, Inc., has 66 U.S. Trademarks, where, from what I am seeing, is the administrative database management system, invading the United States, and, how come no one is doing anything about it?

Oh, wait, I know, because it started in Detroit and no one cares.

Tyler is not just the privatized keeper of the county land records, but it is also the cheap ass ghetto system Wayne County Courts procured.

It sucks.

Try figuring out the case codes because they are based on some crap someone, somewhere, in some other non english speaking country just made up for their very own, new and improved privatized, predictive modeling justice crap.

I got so pissed, not at the clerks, who knew exactly what I was talking about, I called Arizona, where they manage the court record, and the service representatives sounded like I was on some, warm and sunny southeastern asian pacific beach....

So, does this Tyler Technologies, Inc., a foreign corporation, where we still have yet to identify the allodial title holder of the office of head honcho, run the same game for other Wayne County human asset management databases, like Medicaid Fraud in Child Welfare?

I think we should invite Brendan Dunleavy to the fun.

And we most definitely need to ask Carlita Kilpatrick.

She knows lots of stuff.

Now, how would I know that?



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I am going to stop here, and get back to why the #coloredrevolution-aries of Detroit do not want federal intervention.

El Chappo is coming to Detroit.

El Chappo is a loyal and strong supporter of the DNC, or, shall I say, ActBlue, because Tristan and Noel are utilizing The Action Network.

https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-up-for-detroit-will-breathe-updates

Michigan Democratic Party Asks Detroit Precinct Delegates Who They Want When Something Happens to Gretchen Whitmer

It also seems the #coloredrevolution does not want federal intervention in the matters of trafficking tiny humans, in this instance, should not be conflated with the industry of chattel ranching.

Operation Legend results in 22 defendants charged with various federal offenses

The "Elected Ones" of Detroit and of Michigan do not want to speak upon the Child Welfare Industry of Child Protective Services, Foster Care & Adoption, for, if they do, well, let us just say that, that Children's Rights case, Dwayne B. v. Granholm, would have to come to a final determination to refer to federal law enforcement.

But, alas, Nancy Edmunds has her own legal issues she is attempting to cloak, again.

17 arrested in Flint-area child trafficking sting

So, that pretty much sums up the Tyler Technologies, Tristan Taylor & Noel French side of why they do not want federal intervention in Detroit, but there is still the multitude of other stuff no one wants to talk about.

#maytheheavensfall

DEA chief: Trump campaign has 'nothing to do' with feds in Detroit

The nation's top drug cop says Detroit's crime problem got so bad this summer that the feds had to come and help right away, and that President Donald Trump's campaign has nothing to do with their presence in Michigan.

"Politics has nothing to do with this," U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Administrator Timothy Shea said during a Wednesday visit to Detroit.

"There's nothing political about a 50% increase in aggravated assaults. There's nothing political about the 370 people who were shot (here) in the last two months ... Should I have waited before the election is over?" said Shea, defending the federal government's intervention in Detroit under a White House initiative dubbed Operation LeGend.

The operation, which has sent 42 federal agents to Detroit, has raised criticism locally by many who believe the effort is a political ploy to win Trump votes. They also question the timing of Operation LeGend: Trump launched it three months before the November election from the White House and criticized many of the Democratic leaders in the cities he was sending help to.

United States Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Administrator Timothy J. Shea speaks to the Detroit Free Press while touring Detroit and getting updates on Operation Legend, a federal law enforcement effort to crack down on violent crime in cities on Aug. 26, 2020.
Shea, however, says the DEA isn't interested in politics, but in taking down drug lords and dismantling the Mexican cartel that he says is wreaking havoc on Detroit.

"We didn't invent the violent crime problem," said Shea.

"Hey, Boo Boo! I waved at you when you flew over my house,
but you never waved back. Maybe next time."

He denied federal law enforcement is in Detroit and elsewhere to help Trump get elected.

"I don't think these criticisms are valid," Shea said during an interview with the Free Press, saying Operation LeGend is "absolutely not a political tool."

Detroit has a serious crime problem largely fueled by drugs that got even worse during the pandemic, Shea said, and the local police need federal help.

"The cartels? Their representatives are here in Detroit today. Detroit itself cannot handle that kind of invasion of the city by drug cartels," Shea said, stressing the city has many "sophisticated drug operatives that are armed to the 'T.' "

Shea's visit comes one week after U.S. Attorney General William Barr visited Detroit to check on the progress of Operation LeGend, which is supported by Police Chief James Craig and Mayor Mike Duggan.  It comes following a weekend of unrest in downtown Detroit, where 42 demonstrators were arrested while protesting Operation LeGend.

U.S. Attorney General William Barr, center, visits Detroit to help calm fears about the role of federal agents on August 18, 2020.
Like Barr, Shea toured the city by helicopter and also saw some of Detroit's blighted neighborhoods closer up from a vehicle, including an area near City Airport.

"It's a tough neighborhood," Shea said. "I always think about the people who live there."

Shea, though, didn't meet any Detroiters during the neighborhood tour. He said he will be meeting with residents when he visits Seattle next week.

"I would like to meet with more people ... people who live in those areas," Shea said, referring to potential future visits to Detroit neighborhoods.

Shea was named the DEA acting administrator in May. Since then, he has visited numerous cities across the country. In Detroit he also met with U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents, toured their investigative operations along the Canada border, visited the Selfridge Air National Guard base and met with Detroit Police officials.

According to Shea, when it comes to drugs and drug violence, Detroit ranks among the hardest hit cities in the U.S. He said drugs fuel most of the city's violent crimes. He said meth in particular appears to be on the rise in Detroit, though he didn't have statistics.

Of particular concern, Shea said, is the mixing of drugs with fentanyl, which is contributing to a rise in overdose deaths across metro Detroit.

Shea also discussed the role the pandemic has had on drug use and drug crimes. There is anecdotal evidence across the country of people using more drugs because they have more time on their hands and because drug treatment centers have been shut down, he said. This in turn creates more violence, he said, noting "there are very few people who commit most of the crimes."

But there's also an upside to the pandemic, Shea said, noting that when the border to Mexico shut down, the shutdown trapped a stockpile of drugs on one side, and a stockpile of cash on the American side.

There's tens of millions of dollars in drug cash in Detroit and elsewhere, he said, but the feds are getting to it. Most recently, Shea said, agents working under Operation LeGend seized $5.5 million in cash that was meant for drug bosses in Mexico. The operation also led to the arrests of 22 people in Detroit, many of them wanted for drug crimes.

United States Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Administrator Timothy J. Shea speaks to the Detroit Free Press while touring Detroit and getting updates on Operation Legend, a federal law enforcement effort to crack down on violent crime in cities on Aug. 26, 2020.
The big problem, however, still awaits, Shea noted: When the border reopens after the pandemic, and the drugs come pouring back in.

"We're ramping up our efforts now," Shea said.

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