Charged with Contempt!

No BS Newshour Episode #397

Charged with Contempt!

(0:30) I always knew Dana Nessel was contemptible and now it’s official.

Attorney General Dana Nessel was held in contempt of the House of Representatives after she blew-off a subpoena compelling her  to explain her role in the financial abuse of an elderly and incapacitated woman.

The old woman was ripped off of thousands of dollars.  

Nessel didn’t care. In fact, she covered for her friend.

(30:23) PLUS- We found Tommy Hearns. 

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TRANSCRIPT:

I gotta hold a Tommy Hearns.
But first,
hit me.
The dingbat Attorney General Dana Nessel.
It’s all true.
It’s all coming to a head.
Here’s a little tease watch.
I’ve spent my career defending the rights of our most vulnerable.
I’ve always said Attorney General Dana Nestle’s actions are contemptible,
but now it’s official.
And I am not a judge,
but this certainly seems like a dereliction of duty with a very vulnerable adult.
After violating not one,
but two conflict of interest ethical firewalls.
The motion prevails.
The Michigan House Oversight Committee held her in contempt and issued her office subpoenas for refusing to cooperate.
She didn’t even bother to show up to the hearing,
which had an empty chair with her nameplate.
Why?
Because one case involves her friend,
Tracy Kornack,
who’s accused of ripping off an old lady while in charge of her finances.
The attorney general claims that she has no knowledge of this case because of the firewall,
and that’s why she’s not here today.
That is a clear lie.
by our attorney general.
Emails show Nestle personally intervened,
letting Kornack off the hook to continue doing it.
It seems that instead of protecting Mrs.
Byrd, Dana Nestle was protecting Kornack.
The other case involved wrongdoing by none other than Nestle’s wife,
Elena McGuire.
In that one,
Nestle actually called Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson to take back a criminal referral,
which isn’t legal,
And Benson agreed to do it.
That’s a collusive act.
That’s one department head calling the other department head saying,
Hey, I need your department to act the way I want so potentially my wife doesn’t get prosecuted.
This is one Tuesday I’m never gonna forget.
What happens next?
I’ll see you on the next Tuesday.
Okay, let me explain in some detail.
It’s important.
This is kind of historic.
Attorney General Dana Nessa was held in contempt of the House of Representatives
after she blew off a subpoena,
remember,
I told you about that?
Which compelled her to explain her role in the financial abuse of an elderly and incapacitated woman.
As you saw,
the House Oversight Committee voted 10 to 6 to refer the charges to the House as a whole.
If convicted,
Nestle could technically be jailed and would only be the second time in the history of the great state of Michigan that a statewide elected official was held in contempt.
Dana Nestle used the power of her office to manipulate possible criminal cases against people she had relations with.
That’s what Jade DuBoir,
Chairman of the Oversight Committee,
said yesterday.
As the most powerful law enforcement officer in the state,
Nestle stepped around ethical rules to benefit those personally close to her.
The hearing was something like a criminal trial in absentia.
Legislators grilled an empty chair and nameplate carrying the Attorney General’s name.
This caused some temporary confusion since the chair seemed to possess the same IQ as Nestle herself.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
That was a good one.
I thought she was there.
In a crisp and precise presentation,
investigators for the committee,
wow man, they laid out two cases involving Nestle,
which can best be characterized as obstruction of justice.
In the first,
Nestle was shown to have crossed an ethical firewall that was to prohibit her
involvement in her office’s criminal investigation of a friend.
That friend,
as you all know,
is Tracy Kornack,
a slip and fall lawyer and treasurer of the state Democratic Party at the time.
She was accused by a whistleblower,
Joe LeBlanc,
of using the identity of her elderly client,
Rose Byrd,
and the tax ID number of the nursing home where Byrd lived to commit insurance fraud.
Nestle was obligated to stay out of it.
But she didn’t.
According to emails presented at the hearing,
Nestle told her staff that Kornak needed the case wrapped up because Governor Gretchen Whitmer,
also a friend of Kornak’s,
was considering a judicial appointment for Kornak.
The next day,
Nestle’s staff gave the active criminal case file to Kornak,
who was the suspect in that criminal case.
Two weeks later,
the case was officially closed.
After Nestle’s office shut down the case against Kornack,
the Kent County Sheriff’s Office opened its own.
And what did the sheriff find?
It found more than $100,000 missing from the old woman’s bank account before the insurance scam ever came to light.
It is recommended charges of embezzlement and identity theft against Kornack,
felonies that carry sentences of 20 and 15 years.
Kornack is also under investigation by the Allegan County Probate Court for billing the old woman nearly $100,000 after she died this year.
So she’s getting her before,
was getting her during,
getting her after.
And Bird’s probate case file is a handwritten note.
Do we have that,
Mark?
Yeah, I’ll put it up.
It’s from 2019,
where the old woman accused Kornack of theft and asked that Kornack be banished from her life.
I just want to look at that.
Look at that.
It’s in cursive.
It’s in block letters.
It has the vibe of like a seven-year-old.
It really made me sad to see this.
It really made me sad to see this.
Even the old woman.
with some brain damage,
new.
But back then,
the old probate judge didn’t allow it,
and Nestle’s investigators never found the note.
How do you not find the note?
It stinks to high heaven,
DeBoyer said.
In all of this,
the only person who was interviewed by Nestle’s office was Kornack.
In a second case,
Investigators showed committee members how Nestle had yet again jumped an ethical firewall,
this time involving her wife,
Elena McGuire.
McGuire and her associates were subjects of a criminal referral to Nestle’s office by,
wait for it,
Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson.
That referral accused them of campaign finance fraud involving a gay rights ballot initiative.
You guys remember one thing of Freddie?
McGuire was co-chair of that ballot committee called Fair and Equal Michigan.
Side note here,
investigators reminded the committee that a nearly identical criminal referral was made against a conservative group trying to strip Whitmer of her COVID emergency powers.
Nestle charged two people in that case,
and that case is currently in the courts,
but not the one with her wife.
Again, there was an ethical firewall constructed,
and Nestle jumped it.
Documents showed at the hearing that Nestle and Benson had agreed to make the criminal referral against McGuire go away.
Now, I’m going to quote emails here between Nestle’s people and Benson’s people.
Quote, I was informed by the Attorney General that she reached out directly to the secretary and that the secretary agreed to take this matter back for further review,
wrote Danielle Hageman Clark,
Nestle’s
criminal bureau chief,
she wrote that to Benson’s chief legal counsel,
Mike Brady,
to which Brady responded,
thank you for the heads up.
I will let the secretary know about our legal analysis that we lack any legal authority to take back or restart that effort,
meaning they couldn’t do it.
Brady soon found himself on the unemployment line,
according to DeBoyer.
Nestle’s contempt charges were being drafted yesterday afternoon,
and articles of impeachment may soon follow,
De Boyer told me.
And impeachment should be the least of it.
You watched it.
I watched it,
man.
It was very detailed.
I mean, these guys,
well, there was 2 gentlemen and a lady,
and they laid out the case very well.
I mean, I’ve
I’ve sat where you lay out the case,
right?
It wasn’t as good as that,
but it’s very detailed.
So I’ve sat through this sort of presentation before,
but they did a really good job.
Every nook and cranny.
The one thing that really got me,
like you pointed out that letter that she wrote,
she was asking for help.
She said, I need help with my finances.
This lady,
she basically said,
this lady is taking my money.
I don’t know what she’s doing with it.
She sent that to
Adult Protective Services.
This was a note,
a handwritten note straight to Adult Protective Services.
Adult Protective Services to this day,
as they pointed out,
will not release that case file to the committee.
They’re refusing to do so.
And so they’re going to have to,
they voted to subpoena that too.
But what reason would you have
to not turn over that file.
They’re using bureaucratic excuses.
But the only reason you don’t want to release that file is to cover up a failure.
It’s severe failure.
Yeah, I mean,
and it was a good video,
a good choice at the beginning with Nestle parading around like she’s been doing for six,
7, 8 years.
I’m here.
I’m a champion.
My #1 goal is to protect the elderly,
the vulnerable,
the most vulnerable amongst us.
It says everything about a society,
how well you protect the vulnerable.
Remember, all this shit going on with this old lady,
Rose Bird,
was in the middle of COVID.
Yes.
This is how I get on to her.
Like, what’s going on in the nursing homes?
How many are dead?
Why won’t Nestle investigate?
And all of a sudden your friend’s caught up in all of it.
And now it’s official record.
It ain’t me,
you know?
And I’m sitting there yesterday.
How many reporters are there?
Okay, there was one shaggy guy with a laptop.
I’m like, maybe he’s a reporter.
He stayed for the first half and not the second-half with the shit with her wife.
And when it was all said and done,
there was a press conference.
And there was two press conferences.
There was the oversight committee.
And then there was the speaker of the house.
Like, I guess the news is,
oh, these budget cuts.
These budget cuts,
right?
And I walk in there and they’re all fucking there.
It’s like a horde of media.
Like, what have they been doing all morning?
Because I didn’t know the Speaker of the House was coming.
And nobody really asked anything.
It’s like a huge story.
And one woman apologized to the boy and said,
I’m sorry,
I can’t split myself in two and be in two places at once.
So can you just tell me,
you know,
briefly what you talked about today?
What?
Excuse me.
Who are you and why are you here?
So this morning,
you know,
I Googled it and like just about nobody did anything on this.
Nope.
That’s how they get away with it.
See, I didn’t want to start a war,
but like,
I am so glad that I do not work at the Detroit News,
because this is where the whole thing got broke,
right?
They decide they want to attack me.
Oh, my feelings are hurt.
See you next Tuesday.
And you can’t protect an old woman.
You can’t even bring yourself to write about the fact that it’s quite
I’m not want to say probable,
quite possible.
The attorney general is going to be impeached.
And the only reason they wouldn’t impeach her is because if you’re impeached,
all campaign finance limits go out the window.
You can raise unlimited funds to protect yourself,
you know,
in the trial,
which Whitmer did.
She blew through the caps,
raised money in California,
$10 million,
but she was never
charged with impeachment.
So she had to give the money back.
She gave it to the Democratic National or the Democratic State Committee.
And a week later,
there’s glossy 4 tone,
4 color, 4 by 4 by 6,
almost cardboard campaign flyers with Whitmer and Gilchrist and Benson and Nestle.
And I’m like,
what a wash through.
Meanwhile,
this old lady
is suffering.
You had her and you didn’t do shit.
Thoughts, Ken.
It’s crazy because,
you know,
you think about,
you think about,
and the other thing was that the attorney general’s reason for not pursuing the case was because the victim didn’t want to cooperate.
They thought the victim was the nursing home.
They didn’t think it,
they just said it.
They just,
they said,
the nursing home doesn’t want to cooperate,
so they’re the victim in this.
And everybody on the committee was like,
what about the 80 some year old woman who’s getting ripped off?
No one’s thinking about her.
So that was really surprising.
And the other case involving her wife,
to me, that’s even more explosive,
because that could also take down Jocelyn Benson,
like DeBoyer said.
I’m surprised Jocelyn Benson went along with it to take back this criminal referral because that’s collusion.
That’s collusion on paper in e-mail right in front of us.
And he says that’s the most surprising part.
And I agree with him.
I think Jocelyn Benson could be in trouble.
So yeah, the committee was asking,
well, what’s the recourse besides what we could do?
How do you punish these people?
Because
you have to take an ethics exam before you even get on the bar.
Right.
The minute you know you have a conflict of interest,
you got to recuse yourself.
You don’t wait for months like Nestle did.
So they said,
we’re going to refer to the Attorney Grievance Commission.
Now I’m sitting back there next to Shaggy,
you know what I mean?
It’s all I can do to like not yell out.
And I’m like,
there they did.
Here it is.
So somebody filed a grievance against Kornack.
Back in September of 2022,
these are supposed to take six months.
Is it still pending?
No, they closed the case February 2025.
Took that late.
They had to do something with it,
right?
Because it was a judicial appointment waiting.
Yes.
And it says here,
following an investigation,
this matter was submitted to the commissioners for the review.
After their session,
the Attorney Grievance Commission determined that the evidence review did not warrant further action by the commission.
What review of what evidence?
You didn’t call the whistleblower.
You didn’t look at Rose Bird.
You didn’t look into her probate file.
You didn’t get a hold of me.
You didn’t do anything.
So one of the things here was,
here’s what happened.
This is how it’s alleged by
the investigators.
There’s 2 things you could be for an old person.
You can be the conservator,
which handles the financial shit,
paying your rent,
getting your bank accounts in order.
That’s one thing.
A guardian,
you have control of their life,
where they’re going to live,
you know,
what kind of medications,
who’s the doc.
She was a conservator saying,
no, I have power of attorney,
right?
Oh, power of attorney,
by the way,
that was witnessed
That’s for me.
All right,
okay.
Tease ahead,
everybody.
That’s for me.
So she’s claiming,
no, I can do that because I have the power of attorney.
This alleged,
and the committee filed it to be true.
They did an investigation.
The power of attorney to make Kornack the power of attorney for Rose Byrd
I gotta hold a Tabby Hurds.
But first,
hit me.
The dingbat Attorney General Dana Nessel.
It’s all true.
It’s all coming to a head.
Here’s a little tease watch.
I’ve spent my career defending the rights of our most vulnerable.
I’ve always said Attorney General Dana Nestle’s actions are contemptible,
but now it’s official.
And I am not a judge,
but this certainly seems like a dereliction of duty with a very vulnerable adult.
After violating not one,
but two conflict of interest ethical firewalls.
The motion prevails.
The Michigan House Oversight Committee held her in contempt and issued her office subpoenas for refusing to cooperate.
She didn’t even bother to show up to the hearing,
which had an empty chair with her nameplate.
Why?
Because one case involves her friend,
Tracy Kornack,
who’s accused of ripping off an old lady while in charge of her finances.
The attorney general claims that she has no knowledge of this case because of the firewall,
and that’s why she’s not here today.
That is a clear lie.
by our attorney general.
Emails show Nestle personally intervened,
letting Kornack off the hook to continue doing it.
It seems that instead of protecting Mrs.
Byrd, Dana Nestle was protecting Kornack.
The other case involved wrongdoing by none other than Nestle’s wife,
Elena McGuire.
In that one,
Nestle actually called Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson to take back a criminal referral,
which isn’t legal,
And Benson agreed to do it.
That’s a collusive act.
That’s one department head calling the other department head saying,
Hey, I need your department to act the way I want so potentially my wife doesn’t get prosecuted.
This is one Tuesday I’m never gonna forget.
What happens next?
I’ll see you on the next Tuesday.
Okay, let me explain in some detail.
It’s important.
This is kind of historic.
Attorney General Dana Nessa was held in contempt of the House of Representatives
after she blew off a subpoena,
remember,
I told you about that?
Which compelled her to explain her role in the financial abuse of an elderly and incapacitated woman.
As you saw,
the House Oversight Committee voted 10 to 6 to refer the charges to the House as a whole.
If convicted,
Nestle could technically be jailed and would only be the second time in the history of the great state of Michigan that a statewide elected official was held in contempt.
Dana Nestle used the power of her office to manipulate possible criminal cases against people she had relations with.
That’s what Jade DuBoir,
Chairman of the Oversight Committee,
said yesterday.
As the most powerful law enforcement officer in the state,
Nestle stepped around ethical rules to benefit those personally close to her.
The hearing was something like a criminal trial in absentia.
Legislators grilled an empty chair and nameplate carrying the Attorney General’s name.
This caused some temporary confusion since the chair seemed to possess the same IQ as Nestle herself.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
That was a good one.
I thought she was there.
In a crisp and precise presentation,
investigators for the committee,
wow man, they laid out two cases involving Nestle,
which can best be characterized as obstruction of justice.
In the first,
Nestle was shown to have crossed an ethical firewall that was to prohibit her
involvement in her office’s criminal investigation of a friend.
That friend,
as you all know,
is Tracy Kornack,
a slip and fall lawyer and treasurer of the state Democratic Party at the time.
She was accused by a whistleblower,
Joe LeBlanc,
of using the identity of her elderly client,
Rose Byrd,
and the tax ID number of the nursing home where Byrd lived to commit insurance fraud.
Nestle was obligated to stay out of it.
But she didn’t.
According to emails presented at the hearing,
Nestle told her staff that Kornak needed the case wrapped up because Governor Gretchen Whitmer,
also a friend of Kornak’s,
was considering a judicial appointment for Kornak.
The next day,
Nestle’s staff gave the active criminal case file to Kornak,
who was the suspect in that criminal case.
Two weeks later,
the case was officially closed.
After Nestle’s office shut down the case against Kornack,
the Kent County Sheriff’s Office opened its own.
And what did the sheriff find?
It found more than $100,000 missing from the old woman’s bank account before the insurance scam ever came to light.
It is recommended charges of embezzlement and identity theft against Kornack,
felonies that carry sentences of 20 and 15 years.
Kornack is also under investigation by the Allegan County Probate Court for billing the old woman nearly $100,000 after she died this year.
So she’s getting her before,
was getting her during,
getting her after.
And Bird’s probate case file is a handwritten note.
Do we have that,
Mark?
Yeah, I’ll put it up.
It’s from 2019,
where the old woman accused Kornack of theft and asked that Kornack be banished from her life.
I just want to look at that.
Look at that.
It’s in cursive.
It’s in block letters.
It has the vibe of like a seven-year-old.
It really made me sad to see this.
It really made me sad to see this.
Even the old woman.
with some brain damage,
new.
But back then,
the old probate judge didn’t allow it,
and Nestle’s investigators never found the note.
How do you not find the note?
It stinks to high heaven,
DeBoyer said.
In all of this,
the only person who was interviewed by Nestle’s office was Kornack.
In a second case,
Investigators showed committee members how Nestle had yet again jumped an ethical firewall,
this time involving her wife,
Elena McGuire.
McGuire and her associates were subjects of a criminal referral to Nestle’s office by,
wait for it,
Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson.
That referral accused them of campaign finance fraud involving a gay rights ballot initiative.
You guys remember one thing of Freddie?
McGuire was co-chair of that ballot committee called Fair and Equal Michigan.
Side note here,
investigators reminded the committee that a nearly identical criminal referral was made against a conservative group trying to strip Whitmer of her COVID emergency powers.
Nestle charged two people in that case,
and that case is currently in the courts,
but not the one with her wife.
Again, there was an ethical firewall constructed,
and Nestle jumped it.
Documents showed at the hearing that Nestle and Benson had agreed to make the criminal referral against McGuire go away.
Now, I’m going to quote emails here between Nestle’s people and Benson’s people.
Quote, I was informed by the Attorney General that she reached out directly to the secretary and that the secretary agreed to take this matter back for further review,
wrote Danielle Hageman Clark,
Nestle’s
criminal bureau chief,
she wrote that to Benson’s chief legal counsel,
Mike Brady,
to which Brady responded,
thank you for the heads up.
I will let the secretary know about our legal analysis that we lack any legal authority to take back or restart that effort,
meaning they couldn’t do it.
Brady soon found himself on the unemployment line,
according to DeBoyer.
Nestle’s contempt charges were being drafted yesterday afternoon,
and articles of impeachment may soon follow,
De Boyer told me.
And impeachment should be the least of it.
You watched it.
I watched it,
man.
It was very detailed.
I mean, these guys,
well, there was 2 gentlemen and a lady,
and they laid out the case very well.
I mean, I’ve
I’ve sat where you lay out the case,
right?
It wasn’t as good as that,
but it’s very detailed.
So I’ve sat through this sort of presentation before,
but they did a really good job.
Every nook and cranny.
The one thing that really got me,
like you pointed out that letter that she wrote,
she was asking for help.
She said, I need help with my finances.
This lady,
she basically said,
this lady is taking my money.
I don’t know what she’s doing with it.
She sent that to
Adult Protective Services.
This was a note,
a handwritten note straight to Adult Protective Services.
Adult Protective Services to this day,
as they pointed out,
will not release that case file to the committee.
They’re refusing to do so.
And so they’re going to have to,
they voted to subpoena that too.
But what reason would you have
to not turn over that file.
They’re using bureaucratic excuses.
But the only reason you don’t want to release that file is to cover up a failure.
It’s severe failure.
Yeah, I mean,
and it was a good video,
a good choice at the beginning with Nestle parading around like she’s been doing for six,
7, 8 years.
I’m here.
I’m a champion.
My #1 goal is to protect the elderly,
the vulnerable,
the most vulnerable amongst us.
It says everything about a society,
how well you protect the vulnerable.
Remember, all this shit going on with this old lady,
Rose Bird,
was in the middle of COVID.
Yes.
This is how I get on to her.
Like, what’s going on in the nursing homes?
How many are dead?
Why won’t Nestle investigate?
And all of a sudden your friend’s caught up in all of it.
And now it’s official record.
It ain’t me,
you know?
And I’m sitting there yesterday.
How many reporters are there?
Okay, there was one shaggy guy with a laptop.
I’m like, maybe he’s a reporter.
He stayed for the first half and not the second-half with the shit with her wife.
And when it was all said and done,
there was a press conference.
And there was two press conferences.
There was the oversight committee.
And then there was the speaker of the house.
Like, I guess the news is,
oh, these budget cuts.
These budget cuts,
right?
And I walk in there and they’re all fucking there.
It’s like a horde of media.
Like, what have they been doing all morning?
Because I didn’t know the Speaker of the House was coming.
And nobody really asked anything.
It’s like a huge story.
And one woman apologized to the boy and said,
I’m sorry,
I can’t split myself in two and be in two places at once.
So can you just tell me,
you know,
briefly what you talked about today?
What?
Excuse me.
Who are you and why are you here?
So this morning,
you know,
I Googled it and like just about nobody did anything on this.
Nope.
That’s how they get away with it.
See, I didn’t want to start a war,
but like,
I am so glad that I do not work at the Detroit News,
because this is where the whole thing got broke,
right?
They decide they want to attack me.
Oh, my feelings are hurt.
See you next Tuesday.
And you can’t protect an old woman.
You can’t even bring yourself to write about the fact that it’s quite
I’m not want to say probable,
quite possible.
The attorney general is going to be impeached.
And the only reason they wouldn’t impeach her is because if you’re impeached,
all campaign finance limits go out the window.
You can raise unlimited funds to protect yourself,
you know,
in the trial,
which Whitmer did.
She blew through the caps,
raised money in California,
$10 million,
but she was never
charged with impeachment.
So she had to give the money back.
She gave it to the Democratic National or the Democratic State Committee.
And a week later,
there’s glossy 4 tone,
4 color, 4 by 4 by 6,
almost cardboard campaign flyers with Whitmer and Gilchrist and Benson and Nestle.
And I’m like,
what a wash through.
Meanwhile,
this old lady
is suffering.
You had her and you didn’t do shit.
Thoughts, Ken.
It’s crazy because,
you know,
you think about,
you think about,
and the other thing was that the attorney general’s reason for not pursuing the case was because the victim didn’t want to cooperate.
They thought the victim was the nursing home.
They didn’t think it,
they just said it.
They just,
they said,
the nursing home doesn’t want to cooperate,
so they’re the victim in this.
And everybody on the committee was like,
what about the 80 some year old woman who’s getting ripped off?
No one’s thinking about her.
So that was really surprising.
And the other case involving her wife,
to me, that’s even more explosive,
because that could also take down Jocelyn Benson,
like DeBoyer said.
I’m surprised Jocelyn Benson went along with it to take back this criminal referral because that’s collusion.
That’s collusion on paper in e-mail right in front of us.
And he says that’s the most surprising part.
And I agree with him.
I think Jocelyn Benson could be in trouble.
So yeah, the committee was asking,
well, what’s the recourse besides what we could do?
How do you punish these people?
Because
you have to take an ethics exam before you even get on the bar.
Right.
The minute you know you have a conflict of interest,
you got to recuse yourself.
You don’t wait for months like Nestle did.
So they said,
we’re going to refer to the Attorney Grievance Commission.
Now I’m sitting back there next to Shaggy,
you know what I mean?
It’s all I can do to like not yell out.
And I’m like,
there they did.
Here it is.
So somebody filed a grievance against Kornack.
Back in September of 2022,
these are supposed to take six months.
Is it still pending?
No, they closed the case February 2025.
Took that late.
They had to do something with it,
right?
Because it was a judicial appointment waiting.
Yes.
And it says here,
following an investigation,
this matter was submitted to the commissioners for the review.
After their session,
the Attorney Grievance Commission determined that the evidence review did not warrant further action by the commission.
What review of what evidence?
You didn’t call the whistleblower.
You didn’t look at Rose Bird.
You didn’t look into her probate file.
You didn’t get a hold of me.
You didn’t do anything.
So one of the things here was,
here’s what happened.
This is how it’s alleged by
the investigators.
There’s 2 things you could be for an old person.
You can be the conservator,
which handles the financial shit,
paying your rent,
getting your bank accounts in order.
That’s one thing.
A guardian,
you have control of their life,
where they’re going to live,
you know,
what kind of medications,
who’s the doc.
She was a conservator saying,
no, I have power of attorney,
right?
Oh, power of attorney,
by the way,
that was witnessed
That’s for me.
All right,
okay.
Tease ahead,
everybody.
That’s for me.
So she’s claiming,
no, I can do that because I have the power of attorney.
This alleged,
and the committee filed it to be true.
They did an investigation.
The power of attorney to make Kornack the power of attorney for Rose Byrd
I gotta hold a Tabby Hurds.
But first,
hit me.
The dingbat Attorney General Dana Nessel.
It’s all true.
It’s all coming to a head.
Here’s a little tease watch.
I’ve spent my career defending the rights of our most vulnerable.
I’ve always said Attorney General Dana Nestle’s actions are contemptible,
but now it’s official.
And I am not a judge,
but this certainly seems like a dereliction of duty with a very vulnerable adult.
After violating not one,
but two conflict of interest ethical firewalls.
The motion prevails.
The Michigan House Oversight Committee held her in contempt and issued her office subpoenas for refusing to cooperate.
She didn’t even bother to show up to the hearing,
which had an empty chair with her nameplate.
Why?
Because one case involves her friend,
Tracy Kornack,
who’s accused of ripping off an old lady while in charge of her finances.
The attorney general claims that she has no knowledge of this case because of the firewall,
and that’s why she’s not here today.
That is a clear lie.
by our attorney general.
Emails show Nestle personally intervened,
letting Kornack off the hook to continue doing it.
It seems that instead of protecting Mrs.
Byrd, Dana Nestle was protecting Kornack.
The other case involved wrongdoing by none other than Nestle’s wife,
Elena McGuire.
In that one,
Nestle actually called Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson to take back a criminal referral,
which isn’t legal,
And Benson agreed to do it.
That’s a collusive act.
That’s one department head calling the other department head saying,
Hey, I need your department to act the way I want so potentially my wife doesn’t get prosecuted.
This is one Tuesday I’m never gonna forget.
What happens next?
I’ll see you on the next Tuesday.
Okay, let me explain in some detail.
It’s important.
This is kind of historic.
Attorney General Dana Nessa was held in contempt of the House of Representatives
after she blew off a subpoena,
remember,
I told you about that?
Which compelled her to explain her role in the financial abuse of an elderly and incapacitated woman.
As you saw,
the House Oversight Committee voted 10 to 6 to refer the charges to the House as a whole.
If convicted,
Nestle could technically be jailed and would only be the second time in the history of the great state of Michigan that a statewide elected official was held in contempt.
Dana Nestle used the power of her office to manipulate possible criminal cases against people she had relations with.
That’s what Jade DuBoir,
Chairman of the Oversight Committee,
said yesterday.
As the most powerful law enforcement officer in the state,
Nestle stepped around ethical rules to benefit those personally close to her.
The hearing was something like a criminal trial in absentia.
Legislators grilled an empty chair and nameplate carrying the Attorney General’s name.
This caused some temporary confusion since the chair seemed to possess the same IQ as Nestle herself.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
That was a good one.
I thought she was there.
In a crisp and precise presentation,
investigators for the committee,
wow man, they laid out two cases involving Nestle,
which can best be characterized as obstruction of justice.
In the first,
Nestle was shown to have crossed an ethical firewall that was to prohibit her
involvement in her office’s criminal investigation of a friend.
That friend,
as you all know,
is Tracy Kornack,
a slip and fall lawyer and treasurer of the state Democratic Party at the time.
She was accused by a whistleblower,
Joe LeBlanc,
of using the identity of her elderly client,
Rose Byrd,
and the tax ID number of the nursing home where Byrd lived to commit insurance fraud.
Nestle was obligated to stay out of it.
But she didn’t.
According to emails presented at the hearing,
Nestle told her staff that Kornak needed the case wrapped up because Governor Gretchen Whitmer,
also a friend of Kornak’s,
was considering a judicial appointment for Kornak.
The next day,
Nestle’s staff gave the active criminal case file to Kornak,
who was the suspect in that criminal case.
Two weeks later,
the case was officially closed.
After Nestle’s office shut down the case against Cornack,
the Kent County Sheriff’s Office opened its own.
And what did the sheriff find?
It found…
more than $100,000 missing from the old woman’s bank account before the insurance scam ever came to light.
It is recommended charges of embezzlement and identity theft against Kornack,
felonies that carry sentences of 20 and 15 years.
Kornack is also
under investigation by the Allegan County Probate Court for billing the old woman nearly $100,000 after she died this year.
So she’s getting her before,
was getting her during,
getting her after.
And Bird’s probate case file is a handwritten note.
Do we have that,
Mark?
Yeah, I’ll put it up.
It’s from 2019,
where the old woman accused Kornack of theft and asked that Kornack be banished from her life.
I just want to look at that.
Look at that.
It’s in cursive.
It’s in block letters.
It has the vibe of like a seven-year-old.
It really made me sad to see this.
It really made me sad to see this.
Even the old woman with some brain damage,
new.
But back then,
the old probate judge didn’t allow it and Nestle’s investigators never found the note.
How do you not find the note?
It stinks to high heaven,
De Boyer said.
In all of this,
the only person who was interviewed by Nestle’s office was Kornack.
In a second case,
investigators showed committee members how Nestle had yet again jumped an ethical firewall,
this time involving her wife,
Elena McGuire.
McGuire and her associates were subjects of a criminal referral to Nestle’s office by,
wait for it,
Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson.
That referral accused them of campaign finance fraud involving a gay rights ballot initiative.
You guys remember one thing of Freddie?
McGuire was co-chair of that ballot committee called Fair and Equal Michigan.
Side note here,
investigators reminded the committee that a nearly identical criminal referral was made against a conservative group trying to strip Whitmer of her COVID emergency powers.
Nestle charged two people in that case,
and that case is currently in the courts,
but not the one with her wife.
Again, there was an ethical firewall constructed,
and Nestle jumped it.
Documents showed at the hearing that Nestle and Benson had agreed to make the criminal referral against McGuire go away.
Now I’m going to quote emails here between Nestle’s people and Benson’s people.
Quote, I was informed by the Attorney General that she reached out directly to the Secretary and that the Secretary agreed to take this matter back for further review,
wrote Danielle Hagam and Clark,
Nestle’s
criminal bureau chief.
She wrote that to Benson’s chief legal counsel,
Mike Brady,
to which Brady responded,
thank you for the heads up.
I will let the secretary know about our legal analysis that we lack any legal authority to take back or restart that effort.
Meaning they couldn’t do it.
Brady soon found himself on the unemployment line,
according to DeBoyer.
Nestle’s contempt charges were being drafted yesterday afternoon.
and articles of impeachment may soon follow,
De Boyer told me.
And impeachment should be the least of it.
You watched it.
I watched it,
man.
It was very detailed.
I mean, these guys,
well, there was two gentlemen and a lady,
and they laid out the case very well.
I mean, I’ve
I’ve sat where you lay out the case,
right?
It wasn’t as good as that,
but it’s very detailed.
So I’ve sat through this sort of presentation before,
but they did a really good job.
Every nook and cranny.
The one thing that really got me,
like you pointed out that letter that she wrote,
she was asking for help.
She said, I need help with my finances.
This lady,
she basically said,
this lady is taking my money.
I don’t know what she’s doing with it.
She sent that to
Adult Protective Services.
This was a note,
a handwritten note straight to Adult Protective Services.
Adult Protective Services to this day,
as they pointed out,
will not release that case file to the committee.
They’re refusing to do so.
And so they’re going to have to,
they voted to subpoena that too.
But what reason would you have
to not turn over that file.
They’re using bureaucratic excuses.
But the only reason you don’t want to release that file is to cover up a failure.
It’s severe failure.
Yeah, I mean,
and it was a good video,
a good choice at the beginning with Nestle parading around like she’s been doing for six,
7, 8 years.