Rusty Chatfield News Today

Former Michigan state House Speaker Lee Chatfield (R-Levering) and his wife, Stephanie Chatfield, were arraigned Thursday over Zoom in an East Lansing court, as the pair face numerous felonies after the Michigan Attorney General’s Office accused the pair of using various schemes to embezzle nonprofit money to fund luxury vacations and lavish purchases. Nessel announces […] The post Former Speaker Chatfield and his wife plead not guilty to financial felonies appeared first on Michig...

Lee Chatfield's father organized at least one protest against COVID-19 mitigation efforts.

The search at Chatfield’s northern Michigan home comes amid an investigation into allegations of sexual assault.

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Michigan law requires educators to immediately report suspected abuse. But when a 13-year-old told Northern Michigan Christian Academy officials her teacher sexually assaulted her in 2004, they didn’t call police or child protection workers.

A former student at the Northern Michigan Christian Academy is speaking out about allegations of criminal sexual conduct by a teacher who also happens to be the former Speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives Lee Chatfield.

A former student at the Northern Michigan Christian Academy is speaking out about allegations of criminal sexual conduct by a teacher who also happens to be the former Speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives Lee Chatfield.

“You can’t believe everything you read in a newspaper,” pastor Rusty Chatfield told congregants at his northern Michigan church, two days after Bridge Michigan published a report in which Lee Chatfield was accused of sexually assaulting a teen at the affiliated Christian school. 

Lawyers for Rebekah Chatfield are racing to ensure that no records relating to her claim that Lee Chatfield sexually assaulted her are destroyed as her legal team gathers evidence for a possible lawsuit against the former Michigan House speaker.

Lee Chatfield, the former Republican Speaker of the Michigan state House of Representatives, is denying accusations that he raped his sister-in-law when she was underage, claiming they had a consensual extramarital affair.