The Democrat who ran for re-election as Michigan’s Lawyer Basic in 2022, far-left Dana Nessel, has been prosecuting her Republican opponent, Matt DePerno, as a result of he tried to analyze voter fraud by having access to a Dominion Voting machine.
“That is what lawfare seems like: an unconstitutional appointment of a political ally to persecute a political opponent. Unlawful funding. All to assault your former opponent,” mentioned Matt DePerno
Michigan’s far-left Lawyer Basic Dana Nessel is presently nonetheless prosecuting the 2020 Trump electors, in addition to additionally engaged in, critics say, one other outrageous abuse of energy to punish her former GOP opponent, Matt DePerno, by means of what many imagine is a blatantly illegal prosecution.
DePerno, who challenged Nessel within the 2022 election, is presently going through costs stemming from his involvement within the investigation of election gear within the aftermath of the 2020 election. His investigation was licensed pursuant to a courtroom order within the case of Bailey v Antrim County and Jocelyn Benson. However in authorized filings DePerno’s authorized workforce is asking the courtroom to dismiss the fees outright—arguing that Nessel and her workplace have violated a number of statutes, constitutional provisions, and budgetary legal guidelines in orchestrating a political vendetta.
DePerno is particularly charged with “unauthorized entry to voting machines.” This stems from the Bailey case the place DePerno efficiently proved vulnerabilities and susceptibility to election outcomes and gear being administered remotely and anonymously by means of an open VPN.
On the core of DePerno’s movement is Nessel’s unprecedented maneuver to hand-pick Muskegon County Prosecutor Dale “DJ” Hilson—a political ally and rumored successor—as “Particular Prosecutor” to go after DePerno.
Hilson is the Prosecutor who has repeatedly refused to convey costs towards GBI Methods and the infamous Muskegon Voter Registration Fraud run by the far-left firm. Nessel ‘took over’ the investigation from the Metropolis of Muskegon, solely to quietly terminate and cancel the investigation, lying to the public when she said it had been handed off to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. DJ Hilson, who was additionally on the 2020 poll to function Muskegon County Prosecutor which he received apparently didn’t need outcomes of the election reviewed and due to this fact put the GBI fraud investigation on ice.
In keeping with the motions within the prosecution of DePerno, filed by lawyer Michael J. Cronkright, this appointment of Hilson isn’t solely unethical however outright unlawful and unconstitutional:
- MCL 49.160, the one statute allowing the appointment of a particular prosecutor, solely applies when a county prosecutor has a battle of curiosity and submits a proper petition, not when the Lawyer Basic has one.
- The Oakland County Prosecutor’s Workplace by no means declared a battle and had been the right ones to file a grievance; however they reportedly declined to take up Nessel’s apparent persecution of DePerno.
- Nessel declared her personal battle, then tried to make use of that very same statute to shoehorn in Hilson—a blatant misuse of the regulation.
- The Prosecuting Attorneys Coordinating Council (PACC), which processed the appointment, has no authorized authority to assign particular prosecutors underneath Michigan regulation. As a substitute, the one statutory authority given to PACC is to coach county prosecutors on modifications within the regulation.
In paperwork, it seems that the Prosecuting Attorneys Coordinating Council is coordinating funds to the prosecutors concerned within the case. This association could be very unusual, and prevents any public assessment over the operations of the prosecutor’s workplace. The way in which by which Nessel has appointed the prosecutor for this case is enabling her to arrange her personal governmental channels to prosecute political circumstances that’s fully underneath her management; but on the similar time she has publicly said that she not has any curiosity within the case, an clearly false assertion.
DePerno’s motions within the case additional allege that the appointment was not solely unlawful but additionally got here with a possible $500,000 price ticket, funded with out correct legislative appropriation. In response to Freedom of Data Act requests from the Gateway Pundit, the Michigan Lawyer Basic’s workplace claims they’ve spent nothing up to now on the prosecution of DePerno apart from meals and mileage. Little question which means that the state is incurring a big bill which will probably be paid and processed on the finish of the prosecution.
Below Michigan’s Appropriations Act, all authorities spending have to be explicitly licensed by the Legislature. But there isn’t a document that the Michigan Division of Lawyer Basic obtained correct legislative approval to pay for Hilson’s prosecution. Dana Nessel, who claims no additional management of the case, is having her workplace pay for the prosecution; the exact same workplace which acknowledge it was conflicted. However Mr. Hilson is the Muskegon County prosecutor and never licensed to behave outdoors Muskegon County. But he has been tasked to enter Oakland County to prosecute a case the Oakland County prosecutor rejected. On the similar time, Muskegon County is profiting.
This may occasionally quantity to an unlawful diversion of state funds—a cost that will elevate critical questions not nearly authorized ethics but additionally felony misuse of public cash.
DePerno’s movement additionally requests the courtroom dismiss the case due to a violation of MCL 49.158. That part states that the Lawyer Basic isn’t “permitted to prosecute or assist within the prosecuting any particular person for an alleged felony offense the place he’s engaged or all in favour of any civil swimsuit of continuing.” Discovery within the case towards DePerno has revealed that throughout the Bailey case (by which Nessel represented Jocelyn Benson), Nessel’s workplace contacted DePerno’s professional witnesses and threatened them with felony prosecution except they revealed confidential lawyer privileged and work product data.
Certainly, throughout one witness interview Danielle Hagaman-Clark, the Lawyer Basic’s Division Chief, acknowledged that she wanted to discover a method to file the case in Oakland County relatively than Roscommon County. She acknowledged that no grand jury will return an indictment “up there.” She mentioned, “I believe she’s an important prosecutor,” referring to then Roscommon County prosecuting lawyer Mary A. Beebe; however “I don’t wish to be selecting a jury of her friends up there on this sort of crap.”
Danielle Hagaman-Clark then said that they higher make up against the law “ even when it’s conspiracy to commit a authorized act in an unlawful method.” For that motive, she said they should “cost all of them with some sort of conspiracy cost down right here [in Oakland County]. I like that concept significantly better than making an attempt to individually decide these guys off up in Roscommon.”
For that motive, they wanted a again up plan when the Oakland County prosecutor declined to prosecutor. Plan B was to illegally usher in Dana Nessel’s trusted good friend – who had already killed the GBI investigation – to prosecute out of his jurisdiction, presumably with the promise to endorse him for Lawyer Basic if he can convey dwelling a conviction.
Additional, DePerno identified a recorded assertion made by Det/Sgt David Geyer throughout the investigation by which he acknowledged his workplace was being performed to hinder justice. Det/Sgt. Geyer said:
“Oh, there’s little doubt about it. Effectively, they simply dumped the whole voting investigation on me as a result of rapidly, after six months there’s a battle of curiosity, ya know. Um, so, I imply, I’m not, er . . . my investigation might be not going anyplace as a result of . . . what I understand, I obtained thrown into the center of a political absolute shitstorm of an investigation. Okay? Completely. Do I believe there was voter fraud? I do. Do I believe it had something to do with the poll containers? Completely not. Do I believe it needed to do with mail-in voting and absentee ballots and poll harvesting? Completely 100%.”
DJ Hilson is presently making an attempt to suppress these statements made by Danielle Hagaman-Clark and Det/Sgt. Geyer.
Political Lawfare in Motion
“That is full corruption,” DePerno mentioned throughout a current name. “What they’re doing right here isn’t about justice—it’s about punishment. It’s lawfare.”
His authorized workforce has referred to as on the Michigan State Legislature to intervene, demanding subpoenas for:
- Communications between Nessel and Hilson,
- Information of guarantees or inducements made to Hilson,
- Budgetary information that present how this prosecution was funded.
DePerno has requested all emails from Nessel—together with from her unofficial Gmail accounts. Apparently, Dana Nessel’s whole workplace copies emails to themselves by means of Gmail accounts after which by deleting the official e-mail, can deny FOIA requests as a result of the information not exist. DePerno warned the AG’s workplace that he doesn’t anticipate them to “lawfully comply,” prompting him to cc the Home Committees on Judiciary and Basic Authorities.
The forty fourth District Court docket in Oakland County has denied considered one of DePerno’s preliminary six motions to dismiss, however an attraction to the Oakland County Circuit Court docket is underway. DePerno mentioned he additionally plans to file additional motions as he continues to seek out exculpatory proof not turned over throughout discovery, perjured testimony of prosecution witnesses, and willful moral violations of the prosecutors. Because the authorized battle escalates, the case is shaping up as a constitutional take a look at of govt overreach—and a obtrusive instance of political lawfare deployed towards conservatives like Matthew DePerno, the 2020 Trump electors, and different conservatives.
Nessel has been caught overlaying up the Muskegon fraud since earlier than the 2020 election, and she was also caught threatening journalists from reporting on election fraud prior to the 2020 election.
