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LANSING – A state prosecutor handling cases related to an alleged plot against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has been pulled off the cases because of alleged wrongdoing in an unrelated case, a spokeswoman for Attorney General Dana Nessel said Friday.
Assistant Attorney General Greg Townsend "was reassigned from his docket while the Department of Attorney General performs a comprehensive audit of his work," spokeswoman Lynsey Mukomel told the Free Press.
Mukomel declined further comment.
The AG's action follows Friday's announcement by Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald that she had found "evidence of potential breaches of prosecutorial ethics" by a prosecutor who secured arson and murder convictions in connection with a house fire in Royal Oak Township in 2000 that resulted in the deaths of five children.