Inspector General Report on Mayor Duggan & Make your Date
Interesting story. No wrong doing, but favorable treatment was provided to Make your Date.
The most troubling element is the attempt to cover something up with deleted emails. I think most Detroiters are really wary of corruption with Kwame, Louis Miriani and others, but this isn't enough to warrant anger. Happy to have a strong media watchdog in the Freep and DetNews, but in all the smoke, not a lot of fire. I wonder what will happen to Alexis Wiley. Curious to hear your thoughts.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2019/10/21/detroit-mayor-mike-duggan-deleted-emails/4054764002/
Michigan executes search warrant on Detroit's IT office
Michigan executes search warrant on Detroit's IT office
AP | Fri Nov 08, 2019 23:15 UTC
DETROIT [[AP) — Michigan's attorney general has executed a search warrant on the city of Detroit's information technology office. A spokesman for the attorney general’s office, Dan Olsen, confirmed the search warrant Friday to the Detroit Free Press but could not say what was taken or give details about an investigation.
City Corporation Counsel Lawrence Garcia said the city is “cooperating fully with the attorney general’s investigation.”
Last month, Detroit’s inspector general said a group called Make Your Date enjoyed special treatment from City Hall and that Mayor Mike Duggan’s chief of staff Alexis Wiley ordered the deletion of emails related to the nonprofit prenatal health program.
Duggan said the order to delete emails was a “mistake in judgment” by Wiley to protect junior staffers from possible records requests by a Duggan critic.
https://apnews.com/6aa3d8cf4b284841b68ecf1ad3d3b62e
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The Make Your Date Scandal?
Has this risen to the label of scandal yet?
Following on Meddle's post above I notice that it is the headline article of today's Free Press as State Attorney General Nessel has now entered the probe. This has all the scent of scandal--an affair, a divorce, preferential of treatment of a partner, and now deleted emails. Mayor Duggan has done a great job and I hope and pray for Detroit that these pieces don't come together.
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A spokesman for Nessel could not describe what authorities took during their search, but did confirm the search warrant involved the city's information technology operations at the Detroit Public Safety Headquarters on Third Street. Michigan State Police assisted in the execution of the warrant.
“I can confirm that a search warrant was executed today on the City of Detroit's IT department,” spokesman Dan Olsen told the Free Press.
For several months, Nessel's criminal division has been investigating allegations that city employees were ordered to delete government emails to hide the city's support of the Make Your Date prenatal care program.
https://freep-mi.newsmemory.com/?pub...a0766c_13411a9