Michigan Breaks Ground Building The Flint Children's Trust Model - Light Up That Network

The State of Michigan has initiated the first leg in the construction of the children's trusts in the intentional poisoning of Flint's posterity, the children.

preliminary settlement of the

Not the Michigan Children's Trust, but it seems there is a viable option for each child to access their own, individual trust, like a blockchain.

That would be a logical purpose to the contact tracing, considering the fact that Michigan is #1 in the nation when it comes to trafficking tiny humans through its Child Welfare System, which is still under the purview of Nancy Edmunds.

What would be really exciting is to see if the settlement structure continues through the network of those Public Private Partnerships, that were formed as a result of the privatized contracting which falsely advised elected officials.

Just think if, in the continuance of identifying other, private, foreign corporations, there was found suspected violations of law and policy, which were referred to the proper jurisdiction of law enforcement, to provide reparations to the individual trusts of the children?

What about JonesDay and all of those Michigan advisors in Trump's White House Cabinet?

What about #perkinscoiesucks?

Light up that network.

Hey, Mittens, any comments at the Republican National Convention?

I just adore transposable models and I am sure the children will, too.

#maytheheavensfall

Michigan reaches over $500M settlement in Flint water crisis civil suits

The state of Michigan has reached a more than $500 million settlement that would put to rest lawsuits arising out of the Flint water crisis, two sources with knowledge of the agreement confirmed Wednesday.

The sources weren't authorized to speak publicly on the matter, which is a significant development in a years-long legal fight that's garnered national attention.

The state of Michigan has reached a more than $500 million settlement that would put to rest lawsuits arising out of the Flint water crisis, two sources with knowledge of the agreement confirmed Wednesday.
Details about the settlement arising out of the Flint lead-contaminated water crisis are expected to be spelled out Friday. The deal comes after several years of litigation in which Flint residents pursued damages from the state for the lead-contaminated water piped into many households.

The settlement would be one of the largest in the state's history.

Marc Edwards, the Virginia Tech professor and water expert who tested city water at Flint households and helped expose the lead contamination, responded quickly to the news of a settlement.

"If money is how government expresses sorrow for its crimes — this is a big apology," Edwards said.

Flint Mayor Sheldon Neeley was not part of the settlement discussions, but he said Wednesday that he is "anxiously awaiting closure."

"We’re just staying positive and moving our community forward in a positive direction," said Neeley, who was a city councilman during the water source switch to the highly corrosive Flint River in 2014.

Flint Councilman Eric Mays called the settlement a “good start.”

“I always believed we would be somewhat successful in the civil lawsuits,” Mays said Wednesday. “I will hold my breath and wait till Friday.


“I believe a major portion of that (money) will go towards kids 5, 6 years old in that age group,” added the councilman, who is a member of the class-action civil lawsuit. “I will be waiting to see what the attorney fee portion might be out of that.”

Ryan Jarvi, a spokesman for Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, declined to provide details or confirm a settlement had been reached Wednesday night.

Flint Councilman Eric Mays
Nessel's office and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's office have been engaged in ongoing mediation effort in Flint water cases for more than 18 months, Jarvi said.

"We and the other parties are bound by a federal court order to maintain the confidentiality of detailed settlement and mediation communications until we reach a certain point," Jarvi said. "We have not yet reached the point where we can discuss a potential settlement."

Nessel said last year that she was in discussions regarding the negotiations with Whitmer and legislative leaders about the settlement, which will likely require lawmakers to appropriate state funds.

The governor's office isn't at the point where it can discuss a potential settlement in the case, Whitmer's spokeswoman Tiffany Brown said Wednesday.

"Since taking office, the governor's and the attorney general's teams have been working steadily to reach a resolution of the Flint water cases, and they continue to do so," Brown said.

Through June 2019, Michigan was the subject of 79 Flint related lawsuits in state and federal court. Over the years, some suits have been consolidated for case management purposes.

It is not clear whether the settlement expected Friday resolves all of the civil suits filed against the state or a majority of them.

The state also had filed its own civil suit against engineering companies that had been hired by the Flint government as consultants when the city switched its water source. Nessel has said she expected any settlement from the lawsuits against Veolia and LAN would offset what the state would eventually pay in the state and federal civil litigation.

The settlement comes as the state faces what experts say could be up to a $3 billion hole in next year's budget because of decreased tax revenue during the coronavirus pandemic.

The state has a fund that it draws settlement money from, but never one of this proportion. The settlement amount calls for the involvement of the Legislature to appropriate more money toward the agreement.


Between 2015 and 2019, the state has pulled $15.1 million from the Lawsuit Settlement Proceeds Fund — a fund containing settlements in favor of the state — for Flint water investigations and legal defense costs alone, according to a January 2019 report by the House Fiscal Agency.

Between 2008 and 2018, the state paid $441.4 million in settlements across all departments, according to a Senate Fiscal Agency report.

The largest settlement in the past 10 years that comes close to the expected Flint deal appears to be an agreement reached in February requiring the Michigan Department of Corrections to pay $80 million to settle a lawsuit with former juvenile offenders who contended they were sexually abused in Michigan prisons. In 1996, the Corrections Department also reached a $100 million resolution in a separate case in which female prisoners alleged sexual misconduct and harassment by male officers.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel
The Flint lawsuits were prompted after the state had appointed a series of emergency managers to operate the city of Flint after years of financial distress. Under state oversight, the city's water source was switched in April 2014 from water provided by the regional Detroit Water and Sewerage Department system to the Flint River. Flint was switched back to the Detroit system in October 2015.

The more acidic river water was not treated with anti-corrosion chemicals upon the advice of Michigan environmental department experts. A panel formed by former Gov. Rick Snyder found that the series of events led to the acidic river water corroding aging city water lines, resulting in the leaching of lead into the drinking water.


Experts have argued the contamination also resulted in two outbreaks of Legionnaires’ disease that resulted in at least 13 deaths in the Flint area.

The expected settlement comes nearly two months after a divided Michigan Supreme Court ruled a class-action lawsuit against the state — one of many civil suits filed after the water contamination — could proceed on the argument that Flint residents should be able to recover the value of their property alleged to have been improperly taken due to the contamination.

Todd Flood, the former special prosecutor for the criminal cases under then-Attorney General Bill Schuette.
Todd Flood, the former special prosecutor for the criminal cases under then-Attorney General Bill Schuette, praised the civil side attorneys and officials “for their steadfast efforts in making sure the victims are whole in the city of Flint and for Gov. Gretchen Whitmer closing this deal and making sure that victims were taken care of.”

“I worked hard with Noah Hall on the civil side of this case to make sure that we could do everything we could,” Flood added. “And that’s the first step in the process of justice."

In June 2019, Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud dropped all pending criminal cases in Flint in to reboot the probe that had begun under Schuette. Hammoud replaced Special Assistant Attorney General Noah Hall with assistant attorney generals working to defend the state from civil lawsuits.

Nessel had ceded authority over the criminal cases to Hammoud to build a conflict wall between the civil cases, which Nessel oversaw, and the criminal cases, which fell under Hammoud’s purview.

Trials for former Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Director Nick Lyon and former Chief Medical Executive Eden Wells on manslaughter and other charges were dismissed. Charles also were dropped against six other state and Flint officials.

Hammoud’s investigation is still ongoing.

The state needs to shift its focus to criminal prosecutions next and revive charges, Mays said.


"The second step (of justice) will be coming, I’m sure," former special prosecutor Flood said, "with the criminal side of the case. I’m prayerful that that will come.”

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Richard Baird Was Summoned By Jordan Chariton For A Leaky Flint Water Transcript Legal Psyoptic

A very interesting leak, I see!

Now, whoever would do such a thing?

I know Jordan Chariton was just talking about this very same thing not so long ago.

Jordan was talking alot about Richard Baird.

Jordan was also talking about how VICE would not pick up his work.

Jordan never shared his information with the Michigan State Police or the FBI, or with anyone else, for that matter, because, I guess, he wants the scoop, where I believe Richard Baird may become the sacrificial lamb to cover up all the stealin' the children, land & vote up there in Genessee County Land Bank territory, but, hey, what do I know.

I know this is about to get juicy, because Kym Worthy, as word delivered to me, is not in a happy place right about now.

I wonder how Fadwa Hammoud is doing?

Todd Flood was working with Andy Arena.

Where is Andy?

Who else had their hands on these transcripts?

Who was the transcription service?

Just asking.

Perhaps, someone should ask Jordan.

Someone should ask Kym and Fadwa how come they are not focusing on all that stuff about all the contracts and land bank stuff.....oh, drats, I forgot, if they did that, they would implicate themselves in what was going on in Wayne County and all those properties that just so happened to end up in the Detroit Land Bank Authority.

My bad.

Release of 'confidential' transcripts concerns Flint water investigators

Lansing — Prosecutors involved in Flint's water investigation believe someone illegally provided confidential interview transcripts featuring aides to former Gov. Rick Snyder to a media outlet.

VICE News cited transcripts of interviews with multiple former officials, including Richard Baird, in a wide-ranging April 16 expose on the Snyder administration handling of lead-tainted water in Flint. Then, on Thursday, the Detroit Metro Times published another story by the reporters of the VICE piece with the full transcripts of the Baird interviews.

A new prosecution team appointed by Attorney General Dana Nessel continues to investigate the water crisis. Courtney Covington, a spokeswoman for the Attorney General's Office, said the prosecution team has "grave concerns about the unauthorized disclosure of investigative subpoena transcripts."

"Investigative subpoenas are, by statute, confidential, and their release without a court order is a violation of the law," Covington said. "Such conduct obstructs the investigation that the people of Flint are entitled to and threatens to jeopardize our pursuit of justice."

However, she wouldn't comment on whether prosecutors were investigating the leak.

The transcripts detail interviews between Todd Flood, who previously led the Flint water prosecution team under former Attorney General Bill Schuette, and Baird from February and March 2017.


Baird was previously Snyder's transformation manager. Snyder and Schuette left office at the end of 2018.

The interview transcripts featuring Baird are marked "highly confidential." And in one of the documents, Flood specifically tells Baird, "This is confidential. It's that simple. So I keep it confidential."

The transcript  "doesn't go anywhere" and is "sealed into an evidence room upstairs," Flood adds at another point.

Citing VICE's reporting, Metro Times alleged "prosecutors were investigating alleged attempts by Baird to pay off sick, publicly outspoken Flint residents with offers that included state-funded medical treatment, expanded Medicaid and home infrastructure replacements for pipes and water heaters damaged by Flint River water."

Randall L. Levine, Baird's attorney, said in a statement to The Detroit News on Monday that claims in the articles about Baird "are false based upon presumption and wrongly place him in a false light."

Baird had been informed that he was not a target of the government’s investigation, Levine said. And Baird voluntarily appeared for the interviews and did not claim privilege as he had nothing to hide, the attorney said.

As for the release of the transcripts, Levine said it "appears the only way such documents could have been leaked would be by the government, which is extremely troubling."

"By law, confidential information obtained by the prosecution including testimony and documents secured pursuant to investigative subpoena cannot be available for inspection or divulged and are exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act," Levine added.

One year ago this month, Nessel's office removed Flood from leading Flint water prosecution.

On Monday, Flood said he had no idea how the transcripts of his interview with Baird became public. But he acknowledged their release was "absolutely" an illegal act.

"I share the concerns of unauthorized disclosures of confidential material," Flood said in a statement. "I am not in a position to know why someone would do such a reckless act to disclose protected material."

Last year, Nessel removed Flood from the prosecution team. Nessel ordered criminal charges dismissed from the past investigation.

Michigan Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud and Wayne County Prosecutor Kym  Worthy are now leading the prosecution team. On April 17, they promised criminal charges are still coming and that the criminal statute of limitations and the coronavirus pandemic will not stop them.

VICE says its new reporting into the Flint water crisis spanned "a year and a half across the state of Michigan."

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Cocktails & Popcorn: What Do Rick Snyder & George Nader Have In Common? - George Nader & Eric Prince

George Nader's phones were also seized.

I am pretty darn sure Eric 'the' Prince was talking with a few of the 65 other individuals, too.

I am also pretty darn sure "The Girls" want to find out if their names are mentioned on those devices.

Such a shame people do not understand how the U.S. intelligence community operates.

It is public information, you know.

#sayhisname

Snyder’s phone seized in Flint water probe

Lansing – Authorities investigating Flint’s water crisis have used search warrants to seize from storage the state-owned mobile devices of former Gov. Rick Snyder and 65 other current or former officials, the Associated Press has learned.

The warrants were sought two weeks ago by the attorney general’s office and signed by a Flint judge, according to documents the AP obtained through public-records requests.

Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud and Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy, who is helping with the probe, confirmed they executed a series of search warrants related to the criminal investigation of Flint’s lead-contaminated water in 2014-15 and an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease. They declined further comment.

One warrant, signed May 19, lists all content from Snyder’s cellphone, iPad and computer hard drive. Similar information was sought from the devices of 33 employees who worked in his office, 11 in the Department of Environmental Quality and 22 in the Department of Health and Human Services.

The evidence was apparently initially obtained by former special prosecutor Todd Flood with investigative subpoenas. Because it has been kept in a division of the attorney general’s office, Hammoud took the unusual step of securing a warrant to search another part of the office. She has been managing the probe since January.

“We’re doing everything we can to comply,” said Dan Olsen, a spokesman for Attorney General Dana Nessel, who is not involved in the criminal investigation and is instead handling lawsuits against the state by Flint residents.

A similar warrant was also issued to the Department of Technology, Management and Budget.

“The department is complying with the warrant. We cannot discuss the details further because it is part of pending litigation,” spokesman Caleb Buhs said.

The warrants seek data from the devices of individuals who have been charged in the probe but also uncharged officials such as Snyder, former Environmental Quality director Dan Wyant and various people who worked in Snyder’s office including Lt. Gov. Brian Calley, top aide Richard Baird and chief of staff Dick Posthumus.

Lawyers who have represented Snyder and his office could not immediately be reached for comment Monday.

The warrants came after Hammoud this year reported that boxes of records were discovered in the basement of a state building, including phone extractions and a “trove” of other materials stored on hard drives that allegedly had not been turned over in response to the subpoenas. She sought long breaks in the criminal cases to look at the boxes and any other evidence, but judges declined to suspend the cases for six months.

Flood was ousted as special prosecutor in April after leading the three-year investigation that led to charges against current or former government officials, including two members of Snyder’s Cabinet. Nobody in Snyder’s office has been charged.

Hammoud accused Flood of mishandling the production of records and other evidence collected from state agencies. He has defended his work, saying he acted professionally.

Separately, another lawyer from the attorney general’s office appeared in court to speak up for attorneys in the department who had assisted Flood in collecting and cataloging mounds of records. Christina Grossi said there was no wrongdoing by staff.

Under Michigan law, the affidavit that Hammoud submitted to get the warrants signed by Judge Nathaniel Perry III will not become public for 56 days, though prosecutors can seek to suppress it longer.

The AP filed Freedom of Information Act requests with the attorney general’s office and the budget department to see the warrants they received.

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Cocktails & Popcorn: The Michigan Attorney General's Office Eats Each Other Alive

From the belly of the beast comes the Michigan Attorney General's Partus Sequitur Ventrum of Parental Rights.

That is correct, the Michigan Attorney General is supposed to possess those parens patriae antitrust duties of public office when it comes to natural persons, not corporations.

They messed up when they came up with that privatization crap because I was watching everything they did.

What that means is that you have "The Girls" coming up in there, ready to set up shop and run clean up ops, but "The Boys" are not too happy having to shut down their ops.

I also think Dana was just a placeholder for Fadwa Hammoud, ya know, just in case the election is nullified, or other stuff.

I only say that the "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending) like to use those transposible models.

This is going to be a rather bloody battle and it is going to be global.

We have an entire cast of characters waiting in the wings, absolutely unprepared to enter the world stage, right here in Detroit, but hey, what do I know?

I know I would suggest planning on an outdoor bar-be-que, invite anyone who wants to witness the Quantum Renaissance because you know what they say when it gets hot in Detroit, "They come out the woodwork."

AG v. AG: Flint evidence concealment claims 'not true,' top assistant says

"Going to eat you, Dana, I want your job and 

Lansing — Michigan Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud’s claim the state may have concealed millions of Flint water crisis documents relevant to a criminal probe in the basement of a government building is "not true," a top assistant in Attorney General Dana Nessel's office argues in a new court filing.

And neither are several other related assertions, Assistant Attorney General Christina Grossi said Thursday in what she acknowledged was a "highly unusual" attempt to address multiple "misstatements" by a colleague on the other side of the department's firewall.

Hammoud last week alerted Genesee County Judge Joseph Farah to the newly discovered “trove of documents” as she requested a six-month delay in the criminal case against former Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Director Nick Lyon. He is headed toward trial for involuntary manslaughter and other charges arising from an investigation of the Flint lead-contaminated water crisis.

The solicitor general also announced Monday she had fired special prosecutor Todd Flood, saying she did so after realizing legal "discovery was not fully and properly pursued from the onset of this investigation."

Nessel in January named Hammoud to lead the ongoing Flint criminal investigation through the Office of Special Counsel within the Department of Attorney General. Grossi leads the department’s State Operations Division, which handles a variety of legal issues for state agencies.

"The strength of our legal system is zealous advocacy on both sides of an issue, and my office is utilizing some of the most talented attorneys in the state to zealously represent their clients’ interests in the Flint matter," Nessel said in a statement. "This is the legal system at its best, and it shows that my Department’s conflict wall works. The State of Michigan is well served on both sides of this important issue."

The dispute within the Attorney General's Office is centered around documents and other material from the Department of Environmental Quality that had been stored in the basement of the Department of Technology, Management and Budget’s Joint Operations Center.

Hammoud requested additional time to examine the evidence, which could delay the criminal case against Lyon that began in June 2017. Whether the material was “concealed or simply overlooked,” a thorough examination “will serve the interest of justice,” Hammoud and Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said last week in a filing.

But the material in question had already been reviewed in accordance with procedures that Flood had agreed to, and “responsive” documents related to the Flint investigation had already been produced, Grossi said in a rare intervention notice by the Department of Attorney General. 

Michigan Assistant Attorney General Christina Grossi, left, is defending the Department of Attorney General's handling of recently rediscovered Flint water documents in a state building. 

The stored material did not consist of millions of documents, she said. Rather, it was mostly material cleared from the offices of environmental regulators Michael Prysby and Stephen Busch — who pleaded no contest to misdemeanors in 2018 as part of plea deals — after they had been put on leave.

Accompanying hard drives likely contain back-up images of computers that had already been searched, Grossi said.

The materials from Busch and Prysby mainly included training manuals, personnel files, DEQ policies and binders containing” metering and agenda notes not relevant to the Flint case, Grossi said.

In her filing last week, Hammoud claimed the evidence included a “list of names ominously titled ‘Phones/Wiped,’ along with data from at least one cell phone that (her team was) told did not exist.”

The Office of Special Counsel never provided the department with the names on that list, so it is unclear whether data from the phones in question had already been duplicated and preserved, Grossi said.

All told, Grossi outlined an extensive document discovery process and said the Department of Attorney General had produced 305,692 documents in the case consisting of more than 1,509,364 pages. Several state agencies hired private attorneys to help them respond to subpoenas and requests for information, she said.

Any “allegations of misconduct against assistant attorney generals” who were involved in the document production “are unsupported,” Grossi wrote.

The Office of Special Counsel declined direct comment on Grossi's filing, but Hammoud and Worthy issued a joint statement saying they "will address all matters relevant to our motion in court."

Private attorney Chip Chamberlain, who is defending Lyon in the criminal case, said Grossi’s filing is “entirely consistent” with his understanding of the discovery process and called Hammoud’s claims to the contrary “deeply troubling.”

“They appear designed to smear Mr. Lyon together with any number of hard-working public servants who tried to keep politics out of the whole process,” Chamberlain said.

Former Attorney General Bill Schuette, who appointed Flood to lead the investigation into the Flint water crisis, first announced charges against Lyon on June 14, 2017.

Lyon is set to go to trial in Genesee County Circuit Court on two counts of involuntary manslaughter and one count of misconduct in office connected to the Flint region's 2014-15 Legionnaires' disease outbreak that killed 12 people and sickened another 79 people.

In a Monday filing for Lyon, Chamberlain urged Judge Farah to reject Hammoud’s request to delay the case because of the material that had been stored in the basement of a state government building.

“The stay request is worse than meritless,” he wrote. “The motion invites the court to rescue the prosecution from its own team’s dysfunction, all at the expense of Mr. Lyon, who has been vigorously proclaiming his innocence by diligently seeking relief from the courts.”

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Flint Water Crisis Prosecution Team Found Wiped Phones - Todd Flood Is Gone

Todd Flood was doing more than just the Flint Special Investigation.

Flint special investigator Todd Flood removed from state's prosecution team

Todd Flood
LANSING, Mich. (FOX 2) - Detroit attorney Todd Flood has been removed from the state's prosecution team dealing with the Flint water crisis.

Flood was hired by former GOP state attorney general Bill Schuette, but the new Democratic attorney general Dana Nessel has accepted his resignation even though she told reporters earlier this year she wanted to negotiate a new contract with him.

Flood has recently had surgery to place a stint in his heart after doctors discovered 100% and 96% blockage in two arteries.

It was Flood who charged two top state officials with manslaughter for their alleged misconduct in handling the Flint crisis.

Millions of Flint water documents found in basement, prosecutors claim

FLINT, MI -- Millions of documents related to the Flint water crisis, including a list of state employees titled “Phones/Wiped,” have been discovered in the basement of a state-owned building, according to a filing Friday, April 26, by the Michigan Attorney General’s Office in Genesee Circuit Court.

Solicitor General Fadwa A. Hammoud made the explosive claim in a 10-page request for a six-month delay in the prosecution of former state Department of Health and Human Services Director Nick Lyon, whose attorney said the request amounted to nothing more than stalling in a case that was originally filed nearly two years ago.

“Although the duration of the requested stay is, admittedly, a lengthy one, it is indisputably commensurate with the volume of evidence that has been unknown to (if not withheld from) the People -- not to mention the importance of these prosecutions to the citizens of the state of Michigan,” the request says.

The postponement request also says the records -- collected in response to investigative subpoenas filed by former special prosecutor Todd Flood -- were never completely reviewed before criminal charges -- including involuntary manslaughter -- were filed against Lyon. The filing also claims prosecutors have learned “only a slice” of evidence requested was turned over to them and says evidence that was supplied “did not conform to data delivery standards that would have made it digestible, searchable and analyzable.”

> Ex-health director fights decision to stand trial in Flint water case

John Bursch, one of the attorneys for Lyon, called Friday a “devastatingly bad day” for prosecutors, who have “no case” against his client.

“Among the newly discovered evidence is a list of names ominously titled ‘Phones/Wiped,' along with data from at least one cell phone that the People were told did not exist," the request says.

Chip Chamberlain, an attorney for Lyon, called the requested delay “nothing but a stall tactic” and said the former DHHS director would fight the postponement.

Lyon asks judge to stop jury trial, overturn lower court's Flint water decision

"If allowed to proceed, this case will have a terrible chilling effect on those serving in state government as well as those merely considering such service," the filing says.

A spokeswoman for the attorney general declined to comment in detail on information in the new motion, saying it "speaks for itself. "

The Journal could not immediately reach Flood, who remains a part of the state’s prosecution team, for comment on Friday’s court filing.

In the filing, the attorney general’s office claims the new records were part of the response to subpoenas served on state officers and agencies, including Lyon, for data including voicemails, computer hard drives, audio and video recordings.

The request says that since the attorney general’s office took direct control of the Flint water prosecutions from Flood earlier this year, they have “learned of the existence of millions of pages of documents as well as phone extractions and other materials stored on hard drives recovered in a state-owned facility’s basement, that were responsive to the original subpoenas but were not turned over.”

The filing says those parties served the subpoenas were aware of the materials but “erroneously represented to the prosecution that the prosecution already possessed these materials in their entirety.”

In a brief in support of the request, the attorney general’s office says 23 boxes of evidence “were languishing in the basement” when information about them was discovered. Attorneys within the AG’s office were aware of the records but believed they were duplicates of data already turned over in relation to the case.

The same assistant attorney generals were responsible for the civil defense of “individuals whom this office is investigating in a criminal capacity" and took direction from attorneys outside the office “who are also responsible for the individuals’ civil (and now criminal) defenses," according to the brief.

Among the records in the boxes was data from a state employee’s cell phone despite claims from attorneys for Lyon that the employee had no cell phones preserved or imaged, the brief says, and the file titled “Phones/Wiped,” “which listed the names of eight state employees.”

Only one of these eight individuals appeared in documentation provided by the respondents, who could not explain the significance of the list of individuals," the court record says.

The brief claims that while there is circumstantial evidence of “bad faith concealment” by either Lyon or his attorneys, the state is not alleging that “at this time.”

“Simply put, the People issued investigative subpoenas that sought particular materials, and those materials were not provided,” the brief says.

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Cocktails & Popcorn: "The Girls" Are Powering Up: Janice Winfrey Takes The National Stage To Champion Voting Rights

"We won those elections fair and square because we said
so."

"The Puffed Up Power Girls" Featuring:

• Dana Nessel;
• Kym Worthy;
• Fadwa Hammoun; 
• Jocelyn Benson, and now,
• Janice Winfrey

Unifying in the puffed up power of being a woman, in alliance with #perkinscoiesucks, we sit awestruck, awaiting for the ultra leader of the power puffed up girls, but, hey, what do I know.

I know there is about to be some serious "Colored" Revolutionary tactics about to jump off in Detroit.

I can see you and if you know me, you know I know you know...

This is definitely Port worthy with bread, cheese and a fun little fruit.

Jacques: Detroit clerk to give election advice? Good luck

Janice Winfrey

Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is moving ahead with her promise to help Michigan election officials get ready for an influx of voting changes, following the passage of Proposal 3 in November.

That proposal, approved by voters, aims to make it easier for residents to cast ballots, from no-reason absentee voting to voter registration on Election Day.

Last week Benson formed the 25-member Election Modernization Advisory Committee to counsel her administration and the Department of State’s Bureau of Elections on the implementation of these reforms.

“The results of last November’s election are clear: Michigan voters want to make it easier to vote and harder to cheat,” Benson said in a statement on her advisory committee, which is  tasked with modernizing state elections, applying best practices and making Michigan a national model for "efficient and secure elections."

The committee is composed of clerks and other officials from around the state, as well as national elections experts.

One of the names seems out of place, however: Detroit Clerk Janice Winfrey.

Joselyn Benson

Winfrey made Detroit a national embarrassment after vote counting mishaps following the 2016 presidential election. Her incompetence was on full display then -- and in subsequent elections.

Winfrey narrowly beat her challenger for city clerk in 2017. Garlin Gilchrist -- now serving as lieutenant governor -- made the case that Winfrey’s handling of the 2016 election was a “complete catastrophe.”

Gilchrist came so close to unseating Winfrey that he demanded a recount, partly because of reports of “chaos and confusion” among Detroit absentee balloting. That recount ironically proved impossible to carry out fully because poll worker errors prevented about 20 percent of reviewed precincts from being tallied.

More: Our editorial: State must oversee Winfrey’s operation

That’s why it’s hard to understand what Benson hopes to glean from Winfrey -- unless she’s looking for a primer of what not to do.

Ahead of the November election, Benson called Detroit’s polling challenges “unacceptable.” And she said she’d work on standardizing poll worker training in Detroit and statewide to help prevent such blatant errors.

In the meantime, Benson has given Winfrey a statewide platform. Benson defends her choice, saying she wanted clerks “whose experience and challenges at the ground level are relevant and informative. That’s why it was particularly important to include a representative from the city of Detroit, Michigan’s largest city, who could provide input and experience on how these changes will play out at the local level.”

Yet Winfrey’s ineptitude places her in a special category.

As Sarah Anderson, chief of staff for the Michigan Republican Party, asks, “If this clerk has so thoroughly and routinely botched her basic job duties in Detroit, what damage will she be empowered to do to the rest of the state's elections?”

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Cocktails & Popcorn: Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel Replaces Special Prosecutor Flint Water Crisis Team - Federal Is Out - Wayne County Prosecutors In

Flint cocktails for "The Poors"
(always said with clinched teeth)

Why is Dana Nessel, the brand new Michigan Attorney General is "firing" the Special Counsel for the Flint Crisis?

First, she targeted Wayne County Prosecutor's Office legend Todd Flood with inference of replacing him, as a consultant, with the current Wayne County Prosecutor, Kym Worthy.

Then, she brings in Fadwa Hammoud, another former Wayne County Prosecutor to take over the investigation.

Now, she is getting rid of Andy Arena, former FBI Special Agent in Charge, who made a public declaration to go after the generational public corruption with the creation of a conjugal collaborative in Michigan governments.

Keep in mind that Matt Schneider, former Michigan Deputy Attorney General for Bill Schuette, is back as the Michigan Easter District U.S. Attorney and Barbara McQuade is on the Governor "The Gretch" Whitmer's transition team.

Dana does not look like she is being very nice playing in the conjugal collaborative.

It looks like she is trying to redirect the scope of the investigation, but hey, what do I know?

I know Andy falls under the FBI Enhanced Protection Whistleblower Act of 2017 and the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office used to be headed up by Mike Duggan, the current Mayor of Detroit.

I also know Dana does not want to talk about the 2016 and 2018 elections because she refuses to #sayhisname or that #perkinscoiesucks.

Based upon the following facts, I am going claim Dana Nessel as being a "Legal Genius" (trademark pending).

There is even an investigation in the U.S. Congressional Oversight Committee, led by Elijah Cummings, on the Flint Water Crisis, particularly what has happened to the lives Flint children, yet, Dana is more focused on pleasuring the women in her life, than the trafficking of tiny humans in Michigan.

Priorities.

FUN FACT! DANA USED TO PROSECUTE CHILD ABUSE CASES IN WAYNE COUNTY, BUT NEVER CHILD ABUSE IN FOSTER CARE

All I can say is that it is very, conveniently considerate, to lump all the former Wayne County Prosecutors, all in one office.

People profited from the Flint Water Crisis because it was intentional.

How do I know?

I know because you measure the ethics of officeholders based upon how they treat the children.

Right now, in Michigan, child poverty and infant mortality is increasing.

Let us see how this new Wayne County Prosecutor's Office gurls crew proceeds because the reasons for the replacement are quite questionable to being a cover up.

Hey, Bill...Smooches.

Andy Arena replaced as chief investigator in Flint water crisis

The chief investigator leading the state’s inquiry into the Flint Water Crisis will be replaced by a team member, who is a former Dearborn Heights police officer.

Andy Arena, the FBI Detroit office’s former director, was relieved of his assignment as head of the investigative team earlier this week, according to a statement from Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office.

Bill & Andy.
(This picture is art.)

Jeff Seipanko, a three-year member of the attorney general’s investigative team in Flint, will replace Arena.

Arena did not immediately return a call seeking comment.

The decision comes roughly two weeks after solicitor general Fadwa Hammoud was appointed to take the lead on the state’s criminal cases related to the Flint water crisis. Nessel said Hammoud’s role in the case allowed Nessel to avoid conflicts of interest by not taking a direct role in either the criminal or civil cases.

Flint Special Prosecutor Todd Flood, who along with Arena, were part of the Flint investigation and appeared with former Attorney General Bill Schuette in June 2017 to make the announcement of the criminal charges in the case. Flood could not be reached for comment.

“There is nothing more important to Attorney General Dana Nessel and to me than to bring these cases home,” Hammoud said in a statement Tuesday.

Seipanko has served as the officer in charge in all of the charged cases in Flint and is the “only certified law enforcement officer” on the team, an attribute Hammoud stressed as important in the statement announcing Seipanko’s promotion.

Since the preliminary hearings began in Flint over the water crisis, Seipanko has been a fixture in the courtroom, often times in the back or in private rooms and in constant contact and communication with the special prosecution team.

In January 2018, Seipanko testified at the preliminary hearing of Nick Lyon, the then-chief of the state Health and Human Services department, that he retrieved Lyon’s iPhone for information extraction. Lyon faces trial in the Flint water crisis case on charges, among others, of involuntary manslaughter.

Seipanko testified about a July 22, 2015, meeting in Lansing with Gov. Rick Snyder’s chief of staff Dennis Muchmore, urban policy adviser Harvey Hollins and Flint residents talking about the lead-in-water problem. A screenshot of a note from Lyon’s phone confirmed the meeting.

“Jeff Seipanko possesses the institutional knowledge and experience required to manage and direct all future investigative assets to bring these cases to conclusion,” said Hammoud.

Seipanko served with the Dearborn Heights Police Department for 29 years and retired from the department as a captain of the investigative services division.

In early January, Nessel asked Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy to review the Flint criminal cases, and Worthy was expected to make recommendations regarding the future of the prosecution, including Flood's future as special prosecutor. That review is ongoing.

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Solicitor General Hammoud Selects Internal Chief Investigator for Flint Criminal Cases 

LANSING – Weeks after taking the lead on the Flint water crisis criminal cases, Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud has selected a career law enforcement officer as the team’s new chief investigator. Jeff Seipenko, a member of the Attorney General’s Flint investigative team for three years, replaces Andy Arena, who had been appointed by former Attorney General Bill Schuette as chief investigator in the Flint Water Investigation. 

Hammoud relieved Arena of his assignment earlier this week. Seipenko has been imbedded as the only certified law enforcement officer with the Flint Water Investigative Team since its inception.

During that time, Seipenko has served as the Officer in Charge of all currently charged cases. “Jeff Seipenko possesses the institutional knowledge and experience required to manage and direct all future investigative assets to bring these cases to conclusion,” said Hammoud.

“It is important that we strengthen our internal team with certified law enforcement officers from within our department as we move forward with criminal prosecutions.” Special Agent Seipenko has more than 32 years of law enforcement experience, including 29 years with the Dearborn Heights Police Department. He retired there with the rank of Captain, leading the Investigative Services Division.

During his career, Seipenko has successfully led narcotic and surveillance teams, detective units, special operations and internal affairs investigations. Seipanko has decades of specialized investigative experience where he has managed and directed complex criminal investigations.

“We are committed to bringing justice to the people of Flint,” said Hammoud. “There is nothing more important to Attorney General Dana Nessel and to me than to bring these cases home.”

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Data in this book are dirtier than a glass of Flint tap water.

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Michigan Attorney General & Wayne County Prosecutor Team Up To Do What They Do - Cover Up Cover Ups - Flint Water Crisis Prosecution

This is quite the awkward prosecutorial situation considering the fact that the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office is under federal investigation with the Michigan Attorney General's Office in relation to the Flint Water Crisis and other stuff.

Oups j'ai dit une betise!

“Attorney General Nessel’s appointment of Fadwa Hammoud to serve as Michigan’s next Solicitor General is a brilliant choice. She is a visionary with an excellent work ethic. This is bittersweet for the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office and me personally. Fadwa has served all Wayne County residents with integrity, distinction, and honor. We are sad to see her leave Wayne County service, but the citizens of the entire State will be the beneficiary of her fairness and impressive reputation.” Wayne County Prosecutor Kym L. Worthy

I wonder what the gals have planned for Andy Arena?

From a fan...

Flint continued cover up and continued expolitation has officially expanded hard core into Flint and the cover up will likely continue. Unless I can get my hands on the Master Plumber who oversaw the Flint water valve turn on to help answer some questions. I bet they have info they don't realize they have and may help get to the root of the real problem. There is some pipe that is supposed to drain from under Flint City that no one seems to know where it is...as in they kinda lost where it was, or ao they kinda say but don't say.....and many others have been dead headed (sealed off) and whatever is under there is likely nasty and PFAS contaminated. Kildee is asking now for PFAS to be added for Superfund cleanup sites. How convenient. Need to find that outlet to get water tested. Oh, and people allegely from Easter Seals allegedly have a contract with MDHHS in Flint because of water and are handing out what they say are psych meds without any official diagnoses.

Former Wayne County prosecutor to take lead on Flint water prosecutions

Fadwa Hammoud

The state’s new solicitor general will take lead on the state’s criminal cases related to the Flint water crisis, including the prosecution of involuntary manslaughter charges against two former high-ranking Snyder officials.

Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Tuesday Fadwa Hammoud’s appointment as solicitor general, making her the first Muslim Arab American to achieve that post in the country. Hammoud is a former lead attorney at the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office.

Flint Special Prosecutor Todd Flood, who was appointed by Republican former Attorney General Bill Schuette, will report to Hammoud. He successfully convinced 67th District Court judges to bind over for trial former Health and Human Services Director Nick Lyon and former Chief Medical Executive Eden Wells on criminal charges related to 2014-15 Legionnaire's disease outbreak that killed 12 individuals and sickened at least 79 others.

 Schuette's personal supervision of Flood prevented him from engaging in the civil cases related to Flint, Nessel said. Both the civil and criminal cases have continued for years and cost taxpayers millions, she said.

“We don’t prescribe to the idea of prosecution for profit in this office,” Nessel said in a a statement. “I have worked closely with Ms. Hammoud as a prosecutor and trust her to make the right decisions and take the proper steps to ensure justice for the people of Flint. This department has spent millions of dollars on these cases, and our state residents deserve assurance that these cases are handled properly.”

On Tuesday, Flood praised Hammoud.

“Fadwa is a great person and an excellent lawyer who will serve the people of state and Flint very well,” Flood said. “I look forward to working with her.”

Schuette’s position overseeing Flood has remained empty since the turn of the year because Nessel was uncomfortable with the conflicts associated with the role, said Nessel's spokeswoman Kelly Rossman McKinney. Hammoud’s appointment allows Nessel to remain “above the conflict wall” by avoiding a direct role in either the criminal or civil cases.

“For now, (Flood) will report to the solicitor general,” Rossman McKinney said. “She’ll be in court with him tomorrow to watch, listen and learn.”

Special prosecutors will be in 67th District Court for the resumption of the preliminary exam of Patrick Cook, a Department of Environmental Quality water treatment engineer who is accused of misconduct in office, conspiracy to engage in misconduct in office and willful neglect of duty for allegedly manipulating a Lead and Copper Rule report on the levels of lead in Flint’s water.

There have been talks about a possible plea deal for Cook.

In early January, Nessel asked Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy to review the Flint criminal cases, and Worthy was expected to make recommendations regarding the future of the prosecution, including Flood's future as special prosecutor.

Hammoud’s appointment to the case does not interrupt the review of the prosecutions being conducted by Worthy, Rossman McKinney said. The review is ongoing and could influence the future of the cases and who leads them, she said.

Since Worthy and Hammoud worked together in the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office, “there’s a trusting relationship already established,” Rossman McKinney said.

Worthy declined additional comment on the review, but praised Nessel’s appointment of Hammoud to the cases, calling it a “bittersweet” moment for the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office.

“Attorney General Nessel’s appointment of Fadwa Hammoud to serve as Michigan’s next solicitor general is a brilliant choice,” Worthy said in a statement. “She is a visionary with an excellent work ethic.”

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