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Apr 17, 2024 · Apr 17, 2024. House Speaker Lee Chatfield (right) and Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey (left) announced a lawsuit challenging Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's emergency orders on May 6, 2020 at the Capitol. By Scott McClallen | The Center Square. (The Center Square) – Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced 13 felony charges against former ...
May 2, 2024 · Former House Speaker Lee Chatfield and his wife, Stephanie, were arraigned Wednesday, May 2, 2024, on charges alleging they used different schemes to embezzle, steal and convert both private...
Apr 17, 2024 · Sister-in-law: Ex-MI House Speaker Lee Chatfield sexually assaulted me as teen Michigan has not done so, and politicians from Chatfield to Govs. Gretchen Whitmer and Rick Snyder have used them to collect millions of dollars without disclosing donors.
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Apr 16, 2024 · LANSING – Today, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced 13 felony charges against former Speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives Lee Chatfield, 35, of Levering, for orchestrating a scheme of self-enrichment against state, campaign, and non-profit funds.
- Protecting Integrity of Criminal Probes
- A Legal Thicket
- Striking A Balance with Public Interest
- In Open Court, But Still Secret
- Nessel’S Stated Commitment to Transparency
- When to Release Investigative Records
Nessel has defended the practice, saying the suppressed records protect the integrity of ongoing criminal investigations. “It’s disingenuous to create the impression that maintaining these documents under seal until the investigation is completed is nefarious in nature. To the contrary, it’s in keeping with the professional practices of any law enf...
The vast majority of court documents are generally considered public, but it’s typically hard to extract records that are not. State and federal courts are not subject to the Freedom of Information Act, making it more difficult to obtain suppressed records that can shine a light on judicial proceedings. Nessel’s office recently denied multiple Free...
Eric VanDussen, a Benzie County-based freelance journalist and videographer, has fought to allow the public to see more documents connected to the Whitmer kidnapping plot criminal cases. He is working on a documentary film about extremism in Michigan, an issue Nessel has repeatedly saidis a key problem facing the state. The cases stem from a 2020 e...
Other records relating to the kidnapping plot are also being shielded in Antrim County, where the Attorney General’s office requested the suppression of documents that had already been used in a public court hearing. The state produced approximately 100 exhibits during a preliminary exam last summer for five men accused in the Whitmer case. Accordi...
Since Nessel took office in 2019, she has called for greater transparency and accountability from other institutions and governmental units, including police, utility lobbyists, the Ottawa County Board of Commissioners, Michigan State University and Oxford Community Schools. In 2019, Nessel spoke to a gathering of the Michigan Press Association abo...
While there’s no nationwide data on police and prosecutor efforts to keep records secret, Clary, of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. said he’s seen an uptick in attempts to suppress records. “The routine historical practice, in state and federal courts, has been to make search warrants available to the public once the search has be...
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Apr 18, 2024 · Both Nessel and Benson raised concerns about Michigan’s current campaign finance laws after charges were filed against the Lee and Stephanie Chatfield, who each face multiple charges for financial crimes, including allegedly using funds from a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization to pay off $132,000 in charges to Lee Chatfield’s personal ...
May 31, 2023 · Another nonprofit tied to Shirkey — who led the GOP-led Senate from 2019 through 2022 — is accused of breaking Michigan campaign finance laws by failing to disclose fundraising to directly support Unlock Michigan, a petition drive that successfully overturned a law Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer used to issue orders early in the COVID-19 ...
