Michael Markey News Today

A district court judge bound over Shawn and Jamie Wilmoth, both 37, of Warren and Willie Reed, 38, of Florida to Macomb County Circuit Court in Mount Clemens to face the charges related to allegations they submitted 68,000 fake signatures for political candidates in 2020.

Three petition circulators who helped cost five Republican GOP candidates a shot at the 2022 gubernatorial nomination will face trial on felony charges, a judge has ruled.

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The hearing to determine if three defendants will stand trial over fake petition signatures was suspended until Feb. 29.

Warren court hears testimony against trio facing multiple felonies stemming from fake signature scandal that knocked five GOP gubernatorial candidates off Michigan ballot in 2022.

Critics celebrated Harvard president Claudine Gay's announcement that she would resign amid allegations of plagiarism and a sharp backlash against her response to antisemitism.

Wilmoth and his two co-defendants are accused of defrauding the 2022 gubernatorial campaigns of Perry Johnson, James Craig, Donna Brandenburg, Michael Brown and Michael Markey, as well as judicial candidates Tricia Dare, John Cahalan and John Michael Malone, whose campaigns were derailed. Reed is additionally charged with theft from the gubernatorial campaign of Ryan Kelley.

 

A former state Supreme Court candidate, Hudson hopes to unseat Democratic Rep. Hillary Scholten next November.

Willie Reed is charged with 27 felony counts after allegedly defrauding nine Republican candidacies.