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Macomb Countys prosecutor is investigating nursing home-related coronavirus deaths, saying there are questions about whether the transfer of recovering patients led residents and staff to be infected.

Mar 12, 2021 LANSING (AP) — The prosecutor for Michigan’s third-largest county said Thursday he will investigate nursing home-related coronavirus deaths, saying there are questions about whether the transfer of recovering patients into facilities led residents and staff to be infected. Macomb County’s Peter Lucido, a Republican who has criticized Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s nursing home policies in the pandemic, urged families with concerns about a relative’s “transfer, incid...

Apparently silence isn’t priceless. In fact, it costs a few hundred thousand taxpayer dollars and some billable hours from state-funded lawyers. Or so we learned this week as news broke of cushy separation agreements brokered by Gov. Gretchen Whitmerís administration in an effort to help at least a couple of state agency leaders out the door. Those agreements — one with former Michigan Department of Health and Human Services director Robert Gordon, and the other with former director of t...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The prosecutor for Michigans third-largest county said Thursday...

The Michigan Legislature, where majority Republicans have blasted Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer over severance payments to top officials, has disclosed nearly $700,000 in separation agreements or legal settlements over the past decade.

The disclosure from the Michigan legislature follows intense criticism of the governor for two high-end payments to former public employees who left the job.

AP Photo/Susan Walsh Last week, I wrote about New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s nonstarter of a press conference, and pointed out the real issue that should get him impeached and put on trial: His emergency powers order that led to the murder of thousands of elderly in nursing homes. Really, there should be both state and federal investigations mounted against Cuomo, as well as the other four governors who are complicit in using their emergency powers to force COVID positive patients into nurs...

Nessel and Special Prosecutor Kym Worthy took the evidence against the nine officials indicted in the Flint Water crisis to a one-man grand jury - a Genesee County judge - and presented it in secret proceedings with no defense attorneys present. That allowed the prosecution to avoid laying out its case in an open court before trial, which is the typical process, and it denied the defendants the opportunity to challenge the evidence before heading to trial. The goal was to avoid what happened t...

Lansing — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmers administration agreed to pay former state health department director Robert Gordon $155,506 in a separation deal that also required the two sides to maintain confidentiality about the circumstances that led to his abrupt departure. The agreement is the clearest evidence yet that the split between Gordon, a central figure in the states response to COVID-19, and Whitmer was not amicable, and it shows the Democratic administration used taxpayer funds to ...

Elizabeth Hertel, acting director of the health department, said she was not involved in negotiating a deal for ex-department director Robert Gordon.