"Macomb County's top two elected officials are at war.

County Executive Mark Hackel and Prosecutor Eric Smith, both Democrats, at separate news conferences Monday — 30 minutes and six floors apart in Mount Clemens’ county administration building — called for investigations of each other's offices over allegations of misspending.

Hackel said he will ask the Michigan Attorney General's Office to conduct a criminal investigation of Smith's spending of millions of dollars in drug and alcohol forfeiture funds.

Smith, at a news conference held a half hour earlier in anticipation of Hackel's announcement, said he wants the Macomb County Board of Commissioners to approve forensic audits of "millions of dollars in contracts" he says Hackel's office has handed out without "legislative oversight or approval."

Smith said he also wants the county board to approve a forensic audit of Treasurer Larry Rocca's office."

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