Michigan’s Director of Elections, Jonathan Brater, is accused of mendacity beneath oath to a grand jury within the case towards two sensible and brave election integrity attorneys and a revered patriot and former MI State Consultant.
On August 3, 2023, Democrat Muskegon Prosecutor DJ Hilson introduced legal costs towards Lawyer Stefanie Lambert, then-MI State Rep. Daire Rendon (R), and Lawyer Matthew DePerno, her Republican opponent, within the common election for MI AG in 2022, for his or her alleged position within the investigation of voting machines, reportedly given to them by clerks to be examined for potential fraud.
Nessel accused them of illegally having access to 5 tabulators throughout three Michigan counties, reportedly used within the state’s 2020 election.
One of many tabulators that was examined was reportedly given to Lambert and DePerno by the Barry County clerk in 2021. The vote tabulator was shared with them so it might bear a forensic examination by a professional crew of specialists.
In keeping with a state police report reviewed by Reuters, the township clerk instructed state police she gave the tabulator to an outdoor investigator working with Sheriff Dar Leaf’s workplace so it could possibly be “forensically” examined. The clerk stated the sheriff’s workplace had requested her to offer the machine to the investigator.
MI Lawyer Normal Nessel alleges the tabulator was illegally eliminated on March 9, 2021, and brought to a different county, the place it was examined by laptop technicians working with Lambert and DePerno.
Michigan’s extremely partisan Democrat Lawyer Normal Dana Nessel reportedly shopped for a particular prosecutor who can be prepared to tackle one other one in all her witch hunt instances towards a political enemy.
This time, in what might solely occur within the state of Michigan, the MI Democrat AG was searching for somebody to prosecute her political opponent within the upcoming AG race, Republican Lawyer Matthew DePerno.
The Detroit News first reported in April that Hilson had used a grand jury to weigh costs. As these proceedings performed out largely in secret, Hilson sought a ruling from Oakland County Circuit Choose Phyllis McMillen, a former sixth Circuit Choose appointed by the far-left Democrat Governor Jennifer Granholm, on who might entry voting machines in Michigan.
On August 3, 2022, Bridge MI reported that Particular Prosecutor D.J. Hilson introduced grand jury indictments towards Republican legal professional Matthew DePerno, Lawyer Stefanie Lambert, and former Michigan State Consultant Daire Rendon. Every was charged with a number of felonies, punishable by between 4 and 5 years in jail.
In an announcement, the Muskegon prosecutor stated, “The charging determination was the results of an intensive decision-making course of by an impartial residents’ grand jury.
This residents’ grand jury rigorously listened to the sworn testimony, analyzed the proof as required by legislation, and returned a choice to indict every of the defendants.”
Lambert and DePerno have argued that as a result of clerks granted them entry to the voting machines, their use of the gear was authorized.
Nonetheless, on July 12, McMillen sided with Hilson’s studying of the legislation, saying it was unlawful for somebody to take possession of a voting tabulator with out authorization from the Secretary of State’s workplace or a courtroom order.
Lawyer Dan Hartman’s Movement to Quash, citing “Prosecutorial Misconduct.” In his movement, Hartman reveals gorgeous statements that had been a part of a dialogue between AG Nessel’s Assistant Lawyer Normal Danielle Hageman-Clark, AG investigators, and MI SOS Lawyer Erik Grill.
Under is a transcript of the prosecutors that was hid from the defendants, based on Hartman’s movement to quash. In keeping with DePerno, they had been interviewing the witness, Michael Lynch (the investigator reportedly employed to examine the tabulator), after they requested him to depart the room, however the recorder was nonetheless on.
“They actually say they’re discussion board procuring, they don’t wish to decide a jury in Roscommon County, they admit the witness is stuffed with crap, and they should discover a crime, “even when it’s a conspiracy to you already know, commit a authorized act in a authorized method.” They had been instructed to fabricate a criminal offense,” DePerno explains.
Right here is the excerpt of the dialog between AG Nessel’s Asst. AG Danielle Hagaman-Clark, AG investigators, and MI SOS Lawyer Erik Grill:
Ms. Hagaman-Clark: Yeah, one, to me it looks as if and I…you already know, we will do no matter or the way you guys wish to do that, however, if we will prosecute anyone in Oakland County versus Roscommon County. Love you guys to demise up there however not a grand jury up there.
A number of voices: (laughter)
Ms. Hagaman-Clark: however I’m not down with making an attempt to choose no Roscommon Jury. Higher decide an Oakland County Jury. I’m not going that far I actually like Mary BeeBe. I believe she’s an awesome prosecutor. I don’t wish to be selecting a jury of her friends up there on this sort of crap.
Whereas, we will, you already know, cost all of them with some form of conspiracy cost it down right here as a result of
down right here is the place, you already know, diddling with the tabulators. I like that method significantly better than making an attempt to individually decide these guys off’ up in Roscommon.UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKERS: Yeah
Ms. Hagaman-Clark: You recognize, even when it’s conspiracy to, you already know, commit a, a… authorized act in an unlawful method. For you already know or any of these different election fraud issues we had been searching for Daire, finally it takes place down right here that at the least part of the crime arguably is dedicated in Oakland County. We are able to rope all of them in to make them come down right here to reply for slightly than up there your guys’ neck of the woods.
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKERS: Yeah
Ms. Hagaman-Clark: I believe we’ve got a greater shot.
One other Excerpt:
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKERS: that man is superior so far as the knowledge giving however its its completely absurd that he’s strolling into these locations getting these voting machines and he thinks he was doing this and and its authorized. I imply Stefanie will not be a police officer so far as I do know… unintelligible
Ms. Hagaman-Clark: God she’s a twit, she’s such a twit.
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKERS: I can’t wait to e book her— I’d have accomplished it at this level…
And as if that isn’t dangerous sufficient—there’s extra!
DePerno instructed us, “The AAG, AG investigators and MI SOS Lawyer Eric Grill had been all within the room. And this interview befell whereas the Antrim Co. case was pending, which implies Dana Nessel and Eric Grill (who had been my opposing counsel) began a legal investigation towards me (their opposing counsel), which is unlawful.”
He added, “They usually pulled in my witnesses and made them violate privilege, asking them in regards to the Antrim case whereas it was pending. After which argued earlier than the courtroom with out even disclosing to the courtroom that that they had interviewed my witnesses with out telling me.”
On Sunday night, Lawyer Matt DePerno found exculpatory proof that ought to put an finish to the witch hunt towards him, Stefanie Lambert, and former State Rep. Daire Rendon. He instantly filed a quick to dismiss his case.
From DePerno’s temporary:
Maybe probably the most damning piece of proof on this case, which was not introduced to the grand jury and which was not produced throughout discovery, is a letter dated Could 20, 2021, and written by Jonathan Brater, director of the Michigan Bureau of Elections to the Cheboygan County Clerk, whose County Board wished entry to the tabulators to look at them.
The Could 20, 2021, letter written by MI Director of Elections Jonathan Brater to the county clerk emphatically states:
You’re receiving this letter as a result of the Bureau of Elections has been knowledgeable that the Cheboygan County Board of Commissioners might try to permit an unqualified third occasion to realize entry to voting gear in Cheboygan County, purportedly to conduct a “forensic audit.”
The Board has no authority to require you or any municipal clerk to supply exterior entry to voting gear maintained by your places of work, and neither you nor municipal clerks in Cheboygan County ought to present this entry.
The Michigan Election Legislation entrusts clerks with selecting and sustaining their voting programs and doesn’t present any authority for county commissions to take management of this gear.
MCL 168.37a states that “a county clerk, in consulting with every metropolis and township clerk within the county” will ” decide which digital voting system can be used within the county[.]” Custody, programming, and assessment and testing of election gear is entrusted to certified election officers, not county commissioners.
Right here, Brater affirms it’s the clerk’s prerogative or alternative
In the event you or municipal clerks select to conduct further evaluations of your voting programs, that’s your prerogative.
In adition to confirming that it’s the clerk’s “prerogative” to conduct any further evaluations to their vote tabulators, Brater tells the clerks: “solely election officers, licensed distributors, or accredited voting system check laboratories ought to be granted entry to voting gear. In case you are concerned with having any kind of bodily assessment of your voting system, it’s best to contact an EAC-accredited voting programs check laboratory (VSTL).”
The Could 20, 2021, letter WAS NOT PROVIDED to Defendant Lambert or Deperno.
This letter was not offered by the Folks and was obtained actually on the EVE of trial.
At difficulty is Brater’s testimony in entrance of a grand jury, during which he testified beneath oath that the Barry County Clerk had no authority to supply her tabulator to DePerno and Lambert’s licensed crew of inspectors, which, is in direct battle with the December 1, 2020, memorandum issued by his boss, SOS Benson, titled “Recounts, Launch of Voting Tools” which said that safety of voting gear “can be launched as soon as all post-election audits are accomplished.”
From the transcript of Jonathan Brater’s testimony beneath oath in entrance of a grand jury, the place he’s accused of mendacity:
THE WITNESS (Brater):· February 2021 was when that replace was launched.I consider that further language about the place it stated, keep in mind, solely licensed distributors, et cetera, can have entry to that gear, I don’t consider we had beforehand offered that instruction as a part of the conventional launch of safety, it wasn’t new info however I consider we offered that particular instruction due to issues on the time that there can be requests to make unauthorized entry to gear.
JUROR:· And the memo and the varied communications that had been despatched out had been particular to this occasion, they weren’t contained inside different messaging or there was no different messaging included?
THE WITNESS:· That’s right.
At this level in his testimony, DePerno claims Brater uncared for to inform the jury in regards to the Could 20, 2021, letter to the Cheboygan County Clerk informing her it was the clerk’s prerogative to have their tabulators inspected by an accepted vendor.
Had Mr. Brater been trustworthy with the jury, would they nonetheless have agreed to cost the defendants? Would they’ve come to a special conclusion in the event that they knew that the clerk did nothing flawed, based on Brater’s latest letter, by giving the tabulator to an accepted inspector based mostly on her greatest judgment?
We spoke with Constitutional Lawyer Matt DePerno on the day after he found exculpatory proof that had instructed us had been withheld in his case.
DePerno defined that he found the proof on the day earlier than Stefanie Lambert was to look in courtroom. His lawyer instantly despatched the knowledge to Lambert and Rendon’s lawyer.
Beneath regular circumstances, DePerno’s bombshell discovery ought to change the path of this made-for-the-leftist media case, however we aren’t dwelling in regular instances.
The case towards three outspoken election-integrity fighters is eerily much like the eight felony costs towards 15 MI GOP Electors for merely casting an alternate slate of electoral votes for President Trump in 2020.
Though two of probably the most high-profile electors declared publicly in a press convention after casting their alternate votes for Trump that they had been solely casting their votes as a “backup” within the occasion the election outcomes had been overturned, so President Trump would nonetheless get the 16 electoral votes.
As is the case with the MI GOP Electors, the true punishment is the method itself. High Democrat officers use their positions to commit lawfare towards their political enemies, and the media does their half to smear and destroy the reputations of the INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY defendants, whose lives have been turned the wrong way up.
Matt DePerno instructed us that the fees towards him “have actually destroyed my life”—“They’ve destroyed my profession.” DePerno added, “My legislation observe is struggling. No one needs to rent a lawyer accused of committing felonies.” Sadly, that is exactly what those that commit lawfare towards their political enemies wish to hear.
On Monday, after receiving the exculpatory proof of their case from DePerno’s lawyer, Stefanie Lambert’s lawyer, Dan Hartman, who is understood for his fearless protection of election integrity in Michigan, filed a movement to dismiss his shopper’s case.
Oakland County Circuit Court docket Choose Jeffrey Matis agreed to reschedule Lambert’s trial for December 2, 2024 however rejected Lawyer Dan Hartman’s movement to dismiss. In his emergency movement to quash, Mr. Hartman accused the prosecution of a Brady violation over their alleged failure to show over proof.
From the Emergency Movement to Quash Lambert’s case by her legal professional Dan Hartman:
Defendant, Stefanie Lambert, joined within the reduction requested within the Depero Movement to Dismiss
Within the movement to dismiss, Mr. Brater is accused of willfully deceptive the grand jury to affect it. The state’s second strongest election official can be accused of threatening to indict clerks, and knowingly perjuring himself, as a witness representing the Mi Sec. of State.
“Brater lied to the grand jury by representing that it was a prohibition, slightly than a prerogative,” the movement to dismiss states. It continues, “This was a transparent misrepresentation of legislation and tact.”
Attention-grabbing that when Brater was pressed by the grand juror asking questions he moved from an INSTRUCTION to admitting it was contained merely in a NEWSLETTER to clerks after which Deperno on the eleventh hour claims to have found that neither is true.
On info and perception, Deperno’s Lawyer introduced this to the eye of the Particular Prosecutor earlier this week or final week and this was not disclosed.
If this lack of disclosure doesn’t warrant dismissal it should lead to an adjournment.
That is BRADY materials and it was by no means turned over by the Particular Prosecutor as a substitute it was
offered from a courtroom submitting by the CO-Defendant.This movement to dismiss can be heard within the District Court docket and can probably be reviewed of exculpatory proof as a BRADY violation
Stefanie Lambert’s case has now been postponed till after the election in December.
The decide known as a quick recess to assessment the movement.
Curiously, Hilson agreed to take the questionable case towards Nessel’s political enemy, Matthew DePerno, election-integrity legal professional Stefanie Lambert, and Republican State Rep. Daire Rendon.
Nonetheless, the Muskegon County Prosecutor uncared for to cost anybody with crimes in the massive Democrat-funded voter registration fraud that was first discovered in Muskegon, MI, in October 2020.
One 12 months in the past, the Gateway Pundit solely acquired a Michigan State Police report that exposed a shocking months-long investigation into GBI Strategies, a Joe Biden and Senator Gary Peters-funded “voter outreach” group.
The well-funded group, which has since disappeared, turned in between 8,000 and 10,000 voter registrations through mail and in individual to Muskegon Clerk Ann Meisch just one month earlier than the 2020 election.
In keeping with MI SOS Investigator Corey Aimes, a big amount of the voter registration purposes GBI Methods changed into the Muskegon clerk’s workplace had been decided to be fraudulent.
Though the MI State Police report clearly reveals MI SOS Benson’s investigator admitting that “a amount of the voter software varieties” they sampled had been “clearly fraudulent,” Muskegon Prosecutor DJ Hilson by no means charged a single particular person with any crimes associated to the 2020 GBI Methods case.
A number of companies, together with the MI State Police, Muskegon Police, MI SOS workplace, and MI AG’s workplace, had been concerned within the investigation; but, for some motive, Michigan clerks had been by no means instructed to be looking out for packing containers of fraudulent voter registrations being mailed to clerks throughout the state from a lodge in Auburn Hills, MI.
The statewide investigation started in Muskegon and was ultimately taken over by the FBI, the place it went to die.
MI AG Nessel and MI SOS Jocelyn Benson hid the investigation of the Democrat-funded operation from the general public, together with Michigan clerks. Finally, the GBI Methods investigation led to a raid on the voter registration operation’s headquarters, the place police discovered baggage of burner telephones and pre-paid playing cards, semi-automatic rifles with suppressors, and modified pistols that had been left behind by the GBI Methods proprietor whereas he was out of state.
