March 13, he continued. A high level review of elder care issues?. Since Moody was good friends with a select few of the public administrators he appointed, he alerted them to the complaining families who then suffered staggering retaliation in a probate court. "We have no specific instances of wrongdoing.". Teter had certainly not brought it up either at our meeting or any time afterwards. Theres a reason why this story is my last as a journalist. In response to emailed questions from the Appeal about the destruction of the Riders files, a representative for the Superior Court in Alameda County wrote that the files were eligible for destruction and provided a link to the state government code permitting their disposal. Teresa James, assistant division director for the Alameda County Superior Courts traffic and criminal division, confirmed that the Valerga, Richholt, and Neely files were destroyed in accordance with state law that allows the court to dispose of misdemeanor criminal files after five years. Two suicides. They wanted his license. In 2005, Hornung was acquitted after his second trial in which some of the charges against him were dropped. For years, multiple families had gone to Michael with horror stories about hispublic administrators. It would, therefore, not serve our goals for publication at all to provide you with the requested documents at this time, I concluded. Delphine Allen et al. Would dismantling Interstate 980 repair damage to Black neighborhoods? In 2008, Oakland paid $2 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit brought by 16 womenall of whom were Asian Americanwho said they were victims of Valerga. Michael Buchanan, and Officer Brian Liddy. Peter Wielhouwer, associate professor of political science and director of the Institute for Government and Politics at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, said the fact of early voting blunted Trump's aggressive campaigning in the last few weeks in Michigan. Seven points (the margin between the two candidates in the poll) is not representative of the gap (in the election). Four years ago, Trump won among the 1,182 votes there53%-40%, with 6% split between Johnson and Stein. These charges have surfaced over the last year or so, and have only driven the total number of public corruption cases that can be accounted for in the last four years. You lied to me, I wrote back. In Oakland County, for instance, where Trump got 42.3% of the vote, or just over 328,000 votes, James, did better, with 43.8% of the vote, or 334,469votes. However, when I saw that the list of attendees included State Public Administrator Michael Moody, I pushed back and alerted Rossman-McKinney that he was a focus of the investigation. When police searched Richholt and Neelys rental car, they found potential evidence of other crimes, including cash, zip-top plastic bags of cocaine, heroin, and marijuana, and firearms. Under Kirkpatrick, five previously achieved tasks were brought out of compliance. Harriette Cole: I don't want the neighbor's kids at my house, Dear Abby: My wife said she doesn't like it, but it's part of my life, Ask Amy: I feel guilty for not speaking up about my co-worker's activities, Ask Amy: I'm your cabin housekeeper, and you apparently have no idea what I do. Oakland County Prosecutor Jessica Cooper: "The Senator does not appreciate your constant attacks on the Attorney General." Michigan Sen. Peter Lucido: I can't help you. My opinion was, and still is, is that Valerga should have gone to prison, Rullamas said during the deposition. This year, despite trailing in many independent public opinion polls such asthe Free Press' by around 7 points, he brought it closer to 2 by outgaining Biden in areas like St. Clair County, where he added more than 10,000 votes, and Monroe, where he added 9,400. As corruption charges continue to surface in Detroit, public information from the FBI, news sources and local court documents shows that there have been at least 15 public corruption cases involving Detroit councilmembers or Detroit staffers; this number does not include contractors or business figures who have been involved in these corruption cases. An Oakland County man faces two years in prison after he admitted in federal court Tuesday that he was part of a scheme involving trash-hauler Chuck Rizzo Jr. to steal hundreds of thousands of doll He also saw raw numbers of voters swell in virtually every part of Michigan,which is a testament to his ability to generate additional support where it had seemed it had hit a ceiling. With this plea he is required to testify against Smith if requested to do so. The president, meanwhile, has repeatedly shown himself to be a political marvel, defying odds and proving pundits, handicappers and pollsters wrong. 2000-11-02 04:00:00 PDT OAKLAND -- In one of the toughest crackdowns against police corruption in Oakland history, the Alameda County district attorney will charge four police . But even as Trump added some365,000 voters to his totals in Michigan from four years ago in Tuesday's general election, his opponent, Democratic nominee Joe Biden, didfar better, running up surging vote totals in urban and suburban areas and narrowing Trump'sedge in key counties, including Macomb,Kent and Livingston. In Wayne County (excluding Detroit), since 2016, there have been four public corruption charges. Oakland County Courts are known for their corruption and their extortion. In Oakland County, the state's second largest county, turnout was nearly 75%, higher than the 72% seen in 2008; in Detroit which is getting smaller and the rest of Wayne County, turnout . Oakland, California CNN Four police chiefs in 10 days. Since 2016 there have been 10 public officials from Macomb County, either the County organization itself or a municipality within its boundaries, who have been charged with alleged public corruption crimes. The many decades of deceit, public corruption, evidence contamination, and including the lack of following up on anything. A survey of some 3,400 voters in Michigan done by the Associated Press as part of its election coverage found whites without college degrees made up some 54% of the electorate, and they overwhelmingly supported Trump 58%-41%. . B ) During the meeting, allow the AGs staff to review, but not keep, the documents. Since Ayers, Benson and their chief of staffs have not been charged with any crimes they were not included in the total number of regional corruption cases since 2016. My advice is to contact the Macomb County Bar Association, the Michigan State Police or the FBI." First time I can remember I've tried to report a crime and no one has . A 21-year-old man was arrested and charged with murder in connection with a Jan. 23 shooting in Oakland that killed one and injured six. You can't wait until the last week. Anyone with information about public corruption anywhere in Michigan should report it directly to FBI Detroit special agents and analysts at MichiganCorruption@fbi.gov. Third parties. Charges were filed by the Los Angeles District Attorney against Sgt. She invited me to be a join it on. We have concerns that the First Amendment right of access to court records may be violated by a statute providing for so short a period before records are destroyed, Kinzinger, whose firm serves as general counsel for the First Amendment Coalition, wrote in an email. The agency that oversees the Oakland Coliseum voted Friday to rescind its a multimillion-dollar naming-rights contract amid a conflict-of-interest scandal, but agency officials said they expect . I was already looking into Macks background when Catallo broke Bob and Barbs story. He said hed received no announcement but would check with his colleagues on the government beat. After all, they were out of state, But I never thought it would be. I have to come to the conclusion that there is a certain lie factor, a certain unwillingness of Trump voters to express themselves.". Under the Brady rule, prosecutors must disclose material that might help the defense, including information that undermines the credibility of state witnesses. Fired Oakland police chief sues city for, Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Chart: Bay Area rainfall totals for this week, Fired Oakland police chief sues city for alleged retaliation for exposing corruption, abuse of power. Theiralleged victims number in the high thousands of Michigan's most vulnerable senior and developmentally disabled citizens, each declared legally incapacitated wards and placed under a court-appointed guardianship and conservatorship. If you want to know exactly what Yun, Carney, and Fraser did to earn their brief,moment in the sun Friday, then you are quite welcome to click the links below: These stories goto the heart of both Gretchen Whitmer and Dana Nessels 2018 campaigns for Michigan Governor and Attorney General. At least two other cases identified by The Appealone involving officers Eric Richholt and Mark Neely Jr., the other involving Richard Valergahave also been destroyed. Exposing how the U.S. criminal legal system fails to keep people safe and perpetuates harm. And then of course in the mid-'70s, '76, '77, with the four children in Oakland County who were kidnapped and killed. But Biden was able to show some surprising levels of support in Republican areas relative to Trump. All rights reserved. The Riders case is significant for police accountability in Oakland. In 2000, Vazquez fled the country before he was arraigned on 18 felony counts including kidnapping, assault, and conspiracy to obstruct justice. The Attorney General has created an Elder Abuse Task Force, he told me. Gretchen Rachel Hammond is an award-winning freelance investigative journalist based out of Chicago. Indeed, outside Catallo and myself, no one ever wanted to talk to these families. With Detroit having turnout not seen in 20 years and turnout upsignificantly in both Oaklandand Wayne counties relative to 2016, Biden's margins in those counties he won in Oakland 56%-42%, compared with Clinton's 52%-34% and in Wayne 68%-31% to Clinton's 67%-29% more than made up the difference. Evidence Room: 248-858-5062. On July 3, 2000, Batt resigned and blew the whistle on the misconduct he witnessed. After all, the families had already agreed to go on the record with their stories. As for Smith, he pled guilty to a federal obstruction of justice charge for covering up theft from his campaign fund. Whether Moody had jurisdiction over them or not, even after public administrators like Munger had been fired by him in 2017, Munger still took and was taking deceased estate as well as guardianship and conservatorship cases at the Oakland County Probate Court. When Catallo was shooting the story, the Kirks attorney, Sterling Heights Mayor and rabid Democrat Michael Taylor showed up to do a bit of schilling for his clients. IRS delays tax deadline for Bay Area, but California hasn't followed: What should you do? While the rest of the country engages in hand-wringing over the treatment of undocumented immigrants not one civil rights group has raised a finger in protest about the rights that have been stripped from innocent, American citizens. Barry and Marion King's 11-year-old son, Tim King, was the last victim of the Oakland County Child Killer. In winning Michigan, data from the Secretary of State's Office indicatedBiden, nowthe president-elect,added nearly 522,000 votes to those won by Hillary Clinton in the state in 2016. Or one of the cases that had the DPOA that was ignored to see if we could file a motion to terminate. in Oakland County at their at the Red Fox in I think it was Bloomfield. The Truth About Marijuana and the Criminal Legal System, Florida Cops Nearly Sent a Five-Year-Old to Jail, When It Comes to Reporting Deaths of Incarcerated People, Most States Break the Law, M. Forrest Behne, Craig Waleed, Meghan Peterson, and Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, Gay And Trans Panic Is Still Being Used To Justify Anti-LGBTQ Attacks. by Nicole Audrey Spector Sure, the president of the United States wields immense power, as does the average member of the Senate and House of Representative, but when it comes to unchecked lawlessness, abuse of authority and corruption, they've got nothing over the county sheriff. Recently backsliding has left the department, as of February, eight tasks short of full compliance with the court. Its really hard toconfer a whistleblowing case when no one knew the whistle had been blown, Jackson said. Sheriff Bouchard is excited to announce several new programs this year, and the expansion of existing programs. For months, the president had been saying you can't trust absentee, mail-in ballots so his base was not using it. As part of his plea deal, Perez turned states evidence and accused dozens of other LAPD officers of misconduct. James Rullamas, who helped investigate Valergas sexual misconduct, said in a 2007 court deposition that the former officer received lenient treatment from the legal system. If your case does not appear in the MiFIle efiling system please email efiling@oakgov.com to have it added. Its my first and last OpEd so it calls for some trial anderror. where an initial count raised questions and led to a re-tabulation. We left at 5 pm with no comment but quite a lot of answers. Ways to get involved in the 2022 Election. But James won over Peters in that county, with 176,356 to 174,147 for Peters. Subscribe to our newsletters for regular updates, analysis and context straight to your email. The prominent law firm alsorepresents the city of Oakland, Alameda County and the Coliseum Authority, most notably in the ongoing legal battle against the Golden State Warriors over a roughly $40 million debt the authority says the team owes. Accepting what "is" here is NOT acceptable. However, they never faced criminal charges. I patiently reiterated that the wards had been placed in these homes by public administrators and was about to say the name Moody again when Teter lost his temper and told me I was twisting his words. Kirkpatrick was also recently criticized in her handling of the police fatal shooting of a homeless man, Joshua Pawlik, who was found armed and sleeping in 2018. This year, 1,311 voters cast ballots, andit was Trump 49.4% to 49.1% for Biden. "Kos" and "Daily Kos" are registered trademarks of Kos Media, LLC. But, I keptthe name of the Free Press out of requests for interviews. You shared the chart of the home sales information with me and it included one sale that was over $100,000 below the market value. With millions of those votes cast in the weeks before Election Day, it entirely changed the face of the campaign, and Avery wonders whetherit won't change things for good. L. Brooks Patterson: Well, I always thought that was a red herring. v. City of Oakland (or the Riders Case or Riders Scandal) was a civil rights lawsuit in Federal District Court regarding police misconduct in Oakland, California which has resulted in ongoing Federal oversight. One attorney who did described sanctions and threats of Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission complaints from both the PAs and the judges. This statute is written as a set of instructions and authorizations to a branch of government and doesnt necessarily take into account the rights of defendants or victims, Weisberg, the Stanford law professor, told The Appeal. ", ames Ryan Jr.'s company Public Affairs Associates (PAA) has longstanding ties to Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer and was among the, Gretchen Rachel Hammond is an award-winning freelance investigative journalist based out of Chicago. According to news reports from the Detroit Free Press and Detroit News, at least three members of the Detroit Police Department are suspected of accepting bribes from towing industry figures; no charges have been filed so these unnamed individuals were also not included in the regional public figure count. But not this time, evenwith Trump winning Macomb for a second time. OCSO in the Community. As much as anything, however, the 2020 election in Michigan may have been a simple reversion to the mean, an indication that, even with changing voting patterns within the state, Michigan's overall political nature hasn't changed that much after all. Angela Ruggiero covers criminal justice and the Alameda County Superior Court. Only the Detroit News was at all interested. One of the firearms found in the car was a shotgun that Neely and Richholt allegedly seized from an East Oakland mans house earlier in the day in a warrantless search. The Oakland Field Office of IRS Criminal Investigation has dedicated resources to unraveling the truth behind the extensive web of corruption, which Mohammed Nuru presided over, during his tenure leading the San Francisco Department of Public Works," said IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Mark H. Pearson. Monitor the livestream broadcast if youre worried about integrity of the process, but this isnt worth the back and forth with AGs office.. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. moving forward. Trump, despite ending his campaign in Grand Rapids and making west Michigan a focus of his campaign, raised less than 75,000 new votes. Its the easiest job in the world for Nessel; like telling Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York that she cant be a Duchess because all those weight watchers commercials were a bridge too far. So, it didnt pass anyones notice that, despite the simplicity of the job, the Attorney General couldnt even bring herself to say the word fired., Instead, after careful internal deliberation, she decided relieve these public administrators of their appointments.. "We're committing Oakland County - our employees, our resources, our programs and services, to making a real and measurable impact in the areas that matter most, All ways, moving forward." County Executive, David Coulter. "It's back to more typical levels this year.". donate today. In 2008, Oakland paid $2 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit brought by 16 womenall of whom were Asian Americanwho said they were victims of Valerga. Under the guardianship of Macomb County Public Administrator Robert Kirk and his wife Cathy, they were literally fenced inside their own home. Every single time, they were told to "get an attorney but hardly anyone dared to represent wards or families fighting Public Administrators and court-appointed guardians. In addition, former Detroit Councilman Gabe Leland pled guilty to misconduct in office in May of 2021, and he resigned from City Council following the plea. In February 2003, Neely and Richholt pleaded guilty to one count of agreeing to engage in prostitution and received one day in jail and three years of probation, a misdemeanor. Feds file obstruction case against ex-W. Bloomfield schools official . The department remains under a federal judges authority and bound by a settlement agreement that details numerous reforms. Yet, for the months which followed, Nessel refused to say the words public administrator and investigation in the same sentence. (Fugitive Apprehension Team/Detective Bureau) Investigative/Forensic Services. At least once a year, but usually more often than that, a public corruption cases surfaces in Southeastern Michigan that involves a public official. Two leaders of an Oakland construction management firm pleaded guilty Thursday to felony charges in the far-reaching San Francisco City Hall corruption scandal centered . "It's a huge reason we got the vote that we did, when you're talking about the numbers of third party votes we had in '16," Dulio said. Daily Kos readers dont tend towards the troll, yet never couch brutal honesty in niceties. Oct 30, 2019. Miller recently asked for the misconduct in office and conspiracy to commit a legal in an illegal manner charges against him to be dropped. I was fundamentally clear to him that, if Lucido was right about his dates, it was vital that I attend. By that, we're talking about the fact that while third party candidates played an oversize role in the 2016 election, with Libertarian Gary Johnson and Green Party nominee Jill Stein taking about 5% of the vote, they accounted for just a little over 1% in this election. Former LAPD officer Rafael Perez was convicted in 2000 on state felony charges for stealing eight pounds of cocaine from an evidence locker. It would be a long shot. Moody, you know about. The Oakland Police Department was placed under federal court oversight in 2003 following revelations that a squad of officers had spent the summer of 2000 running rampant in a predominantly Black. And while we don't know precisely what that percentage was yet across the state, Kiska's key precincts give a decent idea. And legal experts say that destroying records of police misconduct, even if authorized by state statute, may conflict with the constitutional rights of defendants. Bill Ballenger: The blue AMC Gremlin, child killer. I felt like Adlai Stevenson staring down Ambassador Zorin. He is guardian of her eldest son, Clarence. Four take plea deals in wild Brentwood homicide where victim, suspects shot each other, Feds charge two with robbing two San Francisco banks during the same day, One dead, another wounded in Oakland shooting, Prosecution wraps case in Alex Murdaugh murder trial. However, Vazquezs case documents were inaccessible to the public until Sept. 27, when the Alameda County clerk uploaded them to its electronic records database in response to questions from The Appeal. The Appeal was unable to locate Valerga for comment. Metricmaps.org. Throughout the trials, the Oakland Police Departments internal culture was examined in detail, as were political decisions by city leaders to undertake a zero tolerance crackdown on drug dealers, which community activistsand even the Oakland police unionblamed for stoking violence by street cops. In order to make her point, only one member of the public was invited to attend. And there are any number of places where such a change can be demonstrated, across metro Detroit. I shared the information with the AG and she would like us to get involved more deeply in a couple of cases immediately, he wrote. Charges were filed by the Los Angeles District Attorney against Sgt. I called my editor at the Free Press. The Istanbul Center hosted a discussion Jan. 19 with Ali Winston, one of the authors of The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and . And legal experts say that destroying records of police misconduct, even if authorized by state statute, may conflict with the constitutional rights of defendants. Well let me say something to you, we do have the evidence.. "He (Trump) grew his base considerably. In fact, the entire day went by with radio silence from both the Free Press and Rossman-McKinney. Kirkpatricks lawsuit seeks an unspecified amount of monetary damages for loss of pay, benefits and loss of future earnings. Sgt. Here's a look at how the state split the vote of 2020 and how Biden was able to beat Trump and put Michigan back into the Democrats' "blue wall" of states: A few weeks ago, the Free Press took a deep dive into the state's regions, their voting trends and their importance in electing statewide candidates. Not only that, but from 2003-to-2008, the MSC was provided audits of probate courts, in at least six counties. The pair and other officers brutalized and planted drugs on suspects and filed false police reports resulting in wrongful convictions. to settle a civil rights lawsuit brought by 16 womenall of whom were Asian Americanwho said they were victims of Valerga. Getting those voters to voice their support in public opinion polls isn't easy. In Macomb County, the recent names making headlines for alleged public corruption are former Macomb County Prosecuting Attorney Eric Smith, former Macomb County Chief Assistant Prosecutor Ben Liston and suspended Macomb County Assistant Prosecutor Derek Miller. And in Grand Traverse, Trump went from winning by 13 points four years ago to beating Biden by just 3. The fileswhich consisted of thousands of pages of hearing transcripts, motions, and evidencewere the best public record of the longest criminal trial in Alameda County history. Behind the scenes of the Michigan Elder Abuse Task Force, Nessels firings of four Public Administrators on Friday, the Detroit not so Free Press, Listening Tours, Kojak, Strip Searches and corruption at the highest levels. In Los Angeles County, the superior courts criminal division retained files for several former officers who were charged in the. As for the morning being a "high level review of elder care issues," either Rossman-McKinney lied to my editor or he lied to me. A public administrator was clearly just a title with no more consequences of its removal than telling the Duke of Edinburgh that he could no longer be a duke. Just as he did in 2016, President Donald Trump this year mounted a late-breakingsurge in Michigan, using anaggressive campaign to bolster turnout, disproving myriad polls that showed his support lagging and drawing even greater backingfrom voters across wide swaths of the state than he did four years ago. 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