@mcuban The pharmacy already gets paid negative reimbursements. They're not going to want to perform any more "free" services.
Who the fuck would want to live their entire career life as a fucken doormat?
NEWS A new controversy is unfolding around Michigan far-left Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed. He got a sweetheart consulting deal with his former state health employer just days after quitting with no record of approval by the county commission, and he’s accused of funneling his income through his LLC to avoid paying payroll taxes as he campaigns on “pay your fair share.”
Eight days after Abdul El-Sayed resigned from his nearly $279,000-a-year job as Wayne County’s health director in 2025, he started his own consulting company and rapidly landed a $72,000 county contract to advise the department he had just been running.
The unusual part is the eight-day gap between his resignation and his company’s contract. And El-Sayed was simultaneously campaigning for the U.S. Senate. The timing is striking, and raises questions about conflicts of interest, insider sweetheart deals, and taxpayer-funded consulting.
The consulting work potentially enhanced his political profile for his Senate race. El-Sayed billed the county for work, for example, related to RxKids in November, while County Executive Warren Evans publicly praised El-Sayed’s role in getting the program going.
The county contract went to his AME Higher LLC consulting firm for “leadership transition assistance,” and “media and communications support,” among other things. His 2025 Senate financial disclosure reported roughly $167,000 in income from the LLC.
The structure allows him to avoid payroll/self-employment taxes for Medicare and Social Security on this income. Because AME Higher is a pass-through business, its profits flow to El-Sayed rather than being taxed as corporate income. H/t to the Free Beacon for reporting on this.
He reported only $130,749 in wages on his 2025 personal return, while more than $262,000 was reported as capital gains from a property sale and other income. “AME” appears to be based on Abdul Mohamed El-Sayed’s initials.
There is also a procurement question. A review cited by Wayne County Watch reportedly found no evidence that the Wayne County Commission had approved his $72,000 contract with the county health department, although a purchase order existed and invoices were charged to the health department.
The central fact remains difficult to ignore: a former county health director left office and, just eight days later, his former department hires his own company to help guide the department he had been running—while he was campaigning for the U.S. Senate. And then he avoids payroll taxes on his income via an LLC while telling you to pay your fair share.
That is more than a routine consulting arrangement. It is a taxpayer-funded deal and a tax avoidance setup that deserves scrutiny. #breakingnews #BreakingNews #BREAKING #breaking @x@AP@Reuters@ReutersBiz@FoxBusiness@FoxNews@EveningEdit@Google@nytimes@WSJ@CBSNews@ABC@NBCNews
@AbdulElSayed@MikeRogersForMI BREAKING: Abdul discovers airplanes fly from Florida to Detroit. Apparently Delta availability now proves political cowardice. Next investigative scoop: hotels have rooms.
Resurfaced clip from Abdul El-Sayed documentary shows him directing his crew to NOT film his shelf full of Qurans in order to "keep the shot secular."
He doesn't want people seeing that side of him.
I wonder why...
h/t @FreeBeacon
Abdul El-Sayed's House of Horrors
After he "fixed" a juvie jail, kids suffered rape, beatings, and were given expired meds
By Charlie LeDuff @Charlieleduff
Abdul El-Sayed, the unlicensed doctor, says he’s got the chops and experience to govern from D.C.
But does he?
On the campaign trail, on television, and online, he talks about his tenure as the Wayne County Health Director and his miraculous turn around of the fetid and violent juvenile detention facility.
“We had to rebuild it from the ground up,” he told a crowd of black pastors.
“We rebuilt it from the studs up,” he told a group of black Democrats.
“When the juvenile detention facility was in shambles, I declared a public health state of emergency to rebuild it,” he told CBS.
But those claims don’t hold up when you examine the officials records, court filings, or talk to people who actually worked at the juvenile jail. Those employees paint a picture of horror, abuse, and incompetence.
“Nothing was fixed,” said Jalal Malik-Ikram, a retired Detroit cop and former security officer at the juvenile jailhouse. “It was like prison. The kids called the shots, and their care and safety were beyond terrible.”
Malik-Ikram was fired for taking secret photographs to document the abuse. El-Sayed may have built the studs, but he forgot to lay a foundation.
“They were giving the kids expired medications,” Malik-Ikram said. “Or we couldn’t give the meds at all because it wasn’t safe. School? Education? There wasn’t none to speak of.”
El-Sayed came to work for Wayne County in 2023. His resume listed few professional jobs beyond his 16 months as the Detroit Health Director. He quit that job in 2017, ran for governor, and lost. From there he became a paid talking head for CNN during the Covid pandemic. Citing standard talking points, El-Sayed got most things wrong, including the benefits of school lockouts, masking outdoors, and the efficacy of the vaccine.
But El-Sayed was a “get” for the scandal-plagued county, whose Covid nursing home response was under intense scrutiny as was the plummeting life expectancy of Detroiters. In El-Sayed, they had themselves a real life TV doctor.
Wayne County paid him big—about $280,000 a year. That was $100,000 more than his predecessor, a black female, and $100,000 more than his successor, also a black female. This disparity came despite El-Sayed’s social justice position decrying the pay gap between white men and black women.
The month El-Sayed came aboard full-time with the county—March 2023—a 12-year-old boy was gang raped in the juvenile jail. Squalid and overcrowded, the deteriorating facility with overflowing sewage was a dumping ground not just for Detroit and Wayne County delinquents, but also for juveniles from across the state.
It was the embarrassed County Executive Warren Evans—not El-Sayed—who declared a three-month state of emergency. It was Evans who appointed El-Sayed his juvenile jail czar and handed him $10 million. El-Sayed spent the money. The kids got fresh underpants, the guards got a pay raise, but little else changed.
“[We] reorganized healthcare at the facility, raised salaries and wages by 35% to retain staff, and provided daily access to to hygiene products and clean underwear,” he told the Detroit News.
And it was Evans, the county executive, who lifted the emergency declaration in June 2023, calling El-Sayed’s 10-week tenure a great success.
But it wasn’t a great success. A week later, another kid was raped. Another week, and another beating. A few months later, the facility’s license was downgraded to a “provisional” status—requiring state supervision.
The findings by a state investigator were appalling—violence, irregular meals, 22-hour lockdowns.
In December 2023, two nurses filed a whistleblower lawsuit, alleging that they were fired after complaining to superiors that the children were being given expired medications.
In February 2024, the juvenile jail was given a second “provisional” license after a boy was savaged by other inmates.
Weeks later, a detention worker was charged and later convicted of the sexual assault of two boys. She is currently serving a 6-to-15-year prison sentence. One of the victims is now suing the county in federal court.
That’s when Malik-Ikram began snapping his photographs.
He tells the story of a gay teenager so distraught about being left in the general population that he pulled the florescent light bulbs out of the ceiling to harm himself.
“The kid ate the glass so they’d take him to the hospital,” Malik-Ikram recalled. “That way, he figured, when he come back to lock-up, he’d get placed on the safe floor. But they wouldn’t put him on the safe floor, so the kid would eat glass again. When that didn’t work, he got violent, and that’s when security officers slammed the kid’s head into the wall. I saw that, and I took pictures.”
Malik-Ikram was fired. He, too, has an active whistleblower lawsuit.
Last year, the children were moved into the new Wayne County Criminal Justice Complex, a project engulfed in corruption and cost-overruns. Violence and staffing levels remain serious issues there.
El-Sayed is now asking voters to consider his record at the juvenile jail as he pushes for Medicare for All when the truth is that he couldn’t manage medical care in a juvenile jailhouse.
But on the upside, he got kids toothbrushes and underpants.
@ScottCreative2@AbdulElSayed@MikeRogersForMI BREAKING: Wes discovers CAPS LOCK and concludes the case is closed. 😂 A flight itinerary proves you can get to Detroit. It doesn’t prove why someone hasn’t agreed to a debate. Apparently “MAGA MORONS” was easier to type than an actual receipt.
@VesperAegis@AbdulElSayed@MikeRogersForMI BREAKING: Local man refuses to read infographic, immediately publishes review of infographic. 😂 Next up: restaurant critic skips dinner, reviews the menu font. Pick one claim that’s false and bring receipts—or stick to graphic design.
@WallStreetApes “Go find a high-paying job in technology.” Fast-forward: AI crawls the work, writes the summary, keeps the traffic and threatens the job. Maybe politicians should stop pretending entire workforces can simply retrain into whatever industry automation hasn’t reached yet.
@EricLDaugh China is racing for AI, energy and industrial dominance while America debates more debt, more permanent spending and whether we should even build the infrastructure required to win. You couldn't design a better strategy for Beijing if you tried.
@PramilaJayapal Jayapal: “Republicans did nothing.” H.R. 7008: bans new covered stock purchases, regulates sales, adds penalties. Apparently the biggest loophole in the bill is hoping nobody reads it.