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The Free Press: That’s what it says on the cereal box

There’s a reason why this story is my last as a journalist.

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There’s a reason why I have boxes and flash drives full of evidence and no-one to whom to give them. There’s a reason for why this story is on my personal blog and not a mainstream outlet. These stories go to the heart of both Gretchen Whitmer and Dana Nessel’s 2018 campaigns for Michigan Governor and Attorney General. 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: Instead, after careful “internal” deliberation, she decided “relieve these public administrators of their appointments.” So, it didn’t pass anyone’s notice that, despite the simplicity of the job, the Attorney General couldn’t even bring herself to say the word “fired.” Those Oakland and Washtenaw County families whose stories I had the honor of telling knew that Nessel’s Frday dictum was bullshit. 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.Īs a result, this activity has continued unchecked for at least three decades, with probate court audits covered up by Nessel and her predecessors, the Michigan Supreme Court and the State Court Administrator's Office. Almost immediately, they are forced from their homes and into long-term care facilities or unlicensed group facilities with subhuman living conditions.Įither way, guardianship is a life sentence which hardly anyone in this country knows or about which anyone has cared to educate themselves. With no due process, or medical evidence presented as to a ward’s incapacity, shocking judicial overreach led them to be stripped of each of their constitutional, statutory, civil and human rights.

Their alleged 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. The judges decided on a sample of 2,278 guardianship and conservatorship cases my team and I reviewed. Munger (fired in 2017), Oakland County Probate Court Chief Judge Kathleen Ryan and her colleagues Linda Hallmark, Daniel A.

The subjects of Nessel’s proclamation were also central figures in my investigation alongside attorney Jon B.

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Ninety minutes later, I published a five-part, freelance series detailing an alleged massive abuse and exploitation ring operating out of a Detroit-area probate court. On August 23, 2019, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced that she had fired three Oakland County Public Administrators, John Yun, Jennifer Carney and Thomas Brennan Fraser and one Macomb County Public Administrator Robert Kirk.