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Department of Attorney General Prepares for MLEAC Accreditation, Recommends Other MI Law Enforcement Agencies Follow Suit
The Michigan Department of Attorney General (DAG) recently welcomed a team of assessors from the Michigan Law Enforcement Accreditation Commission (MLEAC). The assessors came to examine all aspects of the Department’s compliance with the MLEAC standards in preparation for granting the Department MLEAC accreditation, Attorney General Dana Nessel announced. -
AG Nessel Re-issues Alert Warning Consumers About Dangers of Artificial Intelligence
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel joined Hank Winchester with WDIV-Detroit to alert consumers that artificial intelligence (AI) is now being used by scammers to make their requests for money and personal information more convincing. -
2 Charged for Criminal Enterprises, Defrauding Federal TARP Program and the City of Detroit
Two men, David Jeremy Gillespie, 39, of Detroit, and David Holman, 48, of, Metamora, were each charged this week with multiple felonies for allegedly conducting separate criminal enterprises to defraud the federal Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) of funds available to contractors conducting demolitions for areas hit the hardest by the financial crisis, which included the cities of Detroit and Flint, announced Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel. -
Active Clergy Abuse Prosecutions Conclude with Sentencing of Ann Arbor Priest for Criminal Sexual Conduct
Former Ann Arbor Catholic priest Timothy Crowley, 74, was sentenced to one year of incarceration at the Washtenaw County Jail and five years' probation, on two counts of Second-Degree Criminal Sexual Conduct (CSC), announced Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel. -
AG Nessel Celebrates Passage of Drug Immunity Repeal and Opioid Bar Legislation
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel applauds the passage of Senate Bills (SB) 410 and 592 through the Michigan House. -
Michigan AG investigation into 2020 voter fraud only now becoming public
MUSKEGON, Mich. (Legal Newsline) - An investigation by Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office into voter fraud surrounding the 2020 general elections only recently became public, with a Gateway Pundit report that cites a Michigan State Police record of the investigation. -
Michigan GOP AG candidate: 'Democrats running as Republicans infiltrated the party'
Matt DePerno announces GOP candidacy for Michigan Attorney General -
Lawsuit: 'Rogue' Mich. officials imposing shutdown orders despite Supreme Court ruling
KALAMAZOO, Mich. (Legal Newsline) – “Rogue government actors” keep pushing social distancing orders in Michigan despite a court ruling they were illegal, a Christian school alleges in a new lawsuit. -
Michigan AG sues over liquor sales
LANSING, Mich. (Legal Newsline) – Michigan’s attorney general says a liquor retailer is skirting state law. -
PFAS bill in Michigan would let State file more lawsuits
LANSING, Mich. (Legal Newsline) – The State of Michigan is backing up its litigation over chemicals known as PFAS with new proposed legislation. -
Flint water crisis settlement: Some six weeks before details, like attorneys fees, come out
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Legal Newsline) - The exact details of Michigan’s proposed $600 million settlement of lawsuits over the Flint water crisis won’t be revealed for at least another one or two months as lawyers, some of whom were hired by the State and will likely be seeking tens of millions in fees, work out the details. -
PFAS litigation heats up in Michigan; AG files two more, readies for discovery in another
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Legal Newsline) - A Michigan judge has cleared the way for his state’s lawsuit to proceed against numerous manufacturers of PFAS, a family of chemicals that leach into groundwater and persist in the environment for years or decades. -
Michigan sues DuPont, 3M and others over PFAS presence
LANSING, Mich. (Legal Newsline) – The state of Michigan is suing DuPont, 3M and 15 other defendants for allegedly contaminating water supplies with PFAS chemicals used in applications including firefighting retardant and Teflon nonstick cookware, causing a widespread health hazard. -
Michigan uses drug-dealer law to sue opioid distributors; Campaign supporter among lawyers hired by AG
LANSING, Mich. (Legal Newsline) - Michigan upped the ante in the litigation war against the opioid industry, suing the nation’s largest pharmaceutical distributors under a law written to strip assets from criminal drug dealers.