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No BS Newshour Episode #402
One Down, One to Go

BREAKING: Traci Kornak, the former treasurer of the Michigan Democrat Party, member of Dana Nessel’s Attorney General transition team, and a wine buddy to Democrats like Governor Gretchen Whitmer, has been charged with multiple felonies for abusing and stealing from a brain-damaged elderly woman, the late Rose Burd.

Kornak was charged with two counts of embezzlement of a vulnerable adult and one count of false pretenses.

→ AG Nessel, had every opportunity to stop Kornak. Instead, she aided and abetted the bilking and abuse of the old woman.

Nessel, quite likely, will face impeachment charges.

New legislation to protect the elderly is making its way through Capitol Hill.

Jay DeBoyer, Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, joins us.

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Why Is Detroit’s Police Board Full of Felons?
One served time for murder, another for running a chop shop, and a third for threatening to shoot a cop… Only in Detroit

By Charlie LeDuff @Charlieleduff

The Detroit Board of Police Commissioners is a veritable work-release program.

The board has not one… not two… but three ex-cons serving as civilian overseers of the Detroit Police Department.

Now I’m all for second changes. But six? Remember, these commissioners sit in judgement of the people who put them behind bars. The police.

I mean, you wouldn’t allow a troupe of pedophiles to work at a children’s circus, would you?

The vice-chair of the board, Darryl Woods, spent 29 years in the state penitentiary for first-degree murder. Gov. Rick Snyder granted him clemency in 2019 and Woods was appointed to the board in 2023 by then-Mayor Mike Duggan.

The second commissioner, Lavish T. Williams, has two convictions on his resume. One for shooting up a car with a guy in it, and another back in 2007 for running a chop shop. The man really likes tearing up cars, it seems. Williams is new to the board, elected last November when he ran unopposed in his district. He didn’t tell anybody about his priors, and nobody asked.

The third commissioner, Darious Morris, finds himself in the news for all the wrong reasons. He was also elected to the board in November, just nine months after he was released from probation for threatening to shoot a Warren cop during a traffic stop that had nothing to do with him. Body-camera footage shows Morris wearing a fake police badge that he purchased online.

Since nobody formally ran for the board to represent District 3, Morris ran as a write-in candidate. He garnered 518 votes. A total landslide. Morris never told anyone about his criminal history. And again, nobody asked.

Morris’s rap sheet doesn’t end there. He did time in 2009 after pleading guilty to forgery and impersonating a notary public.

In November 2021, Morris was caught playing dress-up again. That time he was pulled over by Detroit police officers who discovered Morris carrying a firearm and wearing a fake police chaplain’s badge. He tried to bullshit his way out of the felon-in-possession charge, but it didn’t work.

Morris must have delivered an inspired homily from the back of the squad car, because when Morris was hauled before the judge, his arresting officer was a no-show. Morris was kicked free and the charges were dropped.

That is, until Morris got elected police commissioner and was given a real badge. A nice badge. A golden badge. And the badge, it would seem, has gone to Morris’s head.

A few weeks ago, Commissioner Morris made a trip to the 9th Precinct on the city’s east side. The east side is a notoriously dangerous place, known by its macabre sobriquet: Zip Code 4820-DIE.

So when a real cop asked Morris to step through the precinct’s metal detector like every other nobody, Morris got butt hurt. Morris got angry. And naturally, Morris got on social media. He posted on Facebook personal information about the precinct commander and lieutenant.

That’s when the commissioner’s education into the Thin Blue Line began in earnest. Ross Jones of WXYZ got hold of the story. He rang-up Morris good, complete with an interrogation of Morris and an airing of all his prior body cam footage.

Then George Hunter of The Detroit News made inquiries to the Wayne County Prosecutor wondering why Morris’s gun charges were never reinstated? The prosecutor looked into it. And Morris was scared he was going back to prison. Until the prosecutor discovered that she could not reinstate the charges because the evidence—the handgun Morris was carrying that night—had since been melted down for scrap.

For his part, Commissioner Morris resigned from the board. Then Commissioner Morris abruptly un-resigned from the board.

And then, for whatever reason, Commissioner Morris called me. He said he wanted another interview. He said he wanted to set the record straight. So we set an appointment.

And then Morris ghosted me.

But I found him anyway, standing near the elevator shaft at police headquarters. Oddly, Morris was not wearing his nice, new golden badge.

[Michigan Enjoyer @mich_enjoyer]

The Democrat Treasurer Allegedly Ripped Off an Old Lady. The Media Ignored the Scandal

by Charlie LeDuff @Charlieleduff

Traci Kornak, the former treasurer of the Michigan Democratic Party, was hauled into probate court this week, suspected of embezzling from her ward, a brain-damaged elderly woman.

I caught Kornak feasting on the woman’s finances nearly four years ago and have written many stories about it since. I’ve made TV appearances. I even lost my newspaper job over it.

After my first story was published, Attorney General Dana Nessel, a close friend of Kornak, opened a superficial investigation that was no investigation at all. 

Her detectives made a few cursory phone calls before Nessel prodded them into shutting down the criminal case.

And Kornak, it is alleged, continued to suck the old woman dry.

At least that is what a special fiduciary attorney, Morgan Maul, believes.

Using phrases like “significant discrepancies” and “missing assets” and “concerns about charges,” Maul asked Jolene Clearwater, the chief probate judge of Allegan County, for a six-month extension of his investigation into Kornak’s decade-long conservatorship over the woman’s finances. 

The old woman died last April, and now the judge wants to know what happened to her money. Her condominium? Her insurance settlement from the car accident? Her trust? Her estate plan? Who made debit card purchases on the day of her death?

Not only did Clearwater agree to Maul’s request, she also ruled that Kornak—a slip-and-fall attorney by trade—must pay for Maul’s time.
Kornak, for her part, said nothing in defense of herself.

What began as a story about a simple insurance scam perpetrated by Kornak in the name of the old woman has morphed into a scandal implicating Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and threatening the impeachment of Dana Nessel. Kornak was a suspected embezzler, and Whitmer and Nessel knew about the allegations. Nevertheless, they allowed her to continue in her political position as treasurer of the state Democratic Party.

In fact, Whitmer was planning to appoint Kornak to a judgeship as soon as the criminal investigation went away.

But Kornak was never given a judicial robe, because I would not let the story die. After Nessel complained about a column I published in the Detroit News chronicling her unethical interference in the Kornak investigation, I replied to her on social media with the phrase “See You Next Tuesday”—a euphemism for female genitalia.
My pearl-clutching colleagues at the News feigned outrage, tarred me as a misogynist, and I was forced to resign. Professional jealousy is an ugly thing.

Not another word was written in the paper about the scandal, and I canceled my subscription. But I kept publishing. First online, and now with Michigan Enjoyer. 

And so here we are. Tuesday has arrived.
The Kent County Sheriff’s Office has completed its own two-year investigation into Kornak’s stewardship of the old woman’s financial affairs. Among its recommendations are charges of felony embezzlement, which carries a 20-year prison term. That report now sits on the desk of Chris Becker, the Kent County prosecutor, who is considering charges.

Most nauseating about this whole affair—beyond the alleged abuse of an elder who could not fend for herself —is that those in power knew all along. I called them. I shouted questions at them. I mocked them online, in print, and on TV.

Who are THEY? THEY are those who were in a position to protect the old woman. The governor. The attorney general. The Democratic Party brass. The Attorney Grievance Commission. The Probate Court. The Media.

THEY only proved themselves to be what THEY accused me of being—misogynists, abusers of women.

Worse, THEY proved themselves to be cowards.
There is a light in this dark story. Enjoyer has learned that the FBI has begun making inquiries into the sordid affair.

If justice can prevail, then things might be better for the next old lady.

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