No BS Newshour Episode #409
Lock Him Up
Mike Duggan said he cleaned up the poisoned demo holes.
Then tell me why does a woman sit up late worrying about her four babies falling into a contaminated quagmire of mud and garbage 8-feet deep? Right next to her house.
Mike Duggan doesn’t belong in the Governor’s office – he belongs in a jump suit.
And where was the media this whole time?
Hiding in a dirt hole.
Now that it’s safe to come out, watch the reporters bamboozle you into thinking they care.
They don’t.
We do. The woman. Her babies. Tommy Hearns. Rose Burd. You matter. Power to the People.
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TRANSCRIPT:
Ooh, watch this, Mike. What the hell’s happened to former Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan? Dude looks like he’s OD’d on Ozempic. On December 31st, where I left, every single site that had been tested at Elevated Contaminants had been removed and cleaned and replaced.
He’s talking about the mass poisoning of Detroit under his demolition program. That’s why he’s looking like death, because he got caught. Tacoma Street, on the city’s east side.
He told you he cleaned all this shit up back in November. Does that look cleaned up to you? It’s a swimming pool, kids live here. We immediately removed it, we immediately replaced it.
And this isn’t the only one on the block, there’s like eight others. Let’s go for a walk. Sheesh.
Yep. And this. And there’s this one.
And if you don’t like this one, there’s that one. And this. Ken, can you help me? I’m stuck.
You can always play cornhole. I got four kids. What if my kids fall in here? Spend like this for a minute.
How long? Before Christmas. What? Before Christmas. Well, the mayor said he cleaned it all up.
No. It’s a lie? Yeah, that’s a lie. You gonna vote for him for governor? No.
Oh, hell no. I left reserves there that will more than cover the cost of that. Duncan didn’t leave any money.
The city’s broke. And Mary Mary Sheffield, she was sleeping with the guy who did this. She doesn’t have a plan.
Diane has done 2,500 of these. When are we going to get a holistic look at how bad this city’s been poisoned? Don’t fish in it. Don’t swim in it.
Don’t play in it. And don’t wash your puppy in it, okay? Hey, look, the city got your new swimming pool. I win.
I was obviously the one that called in the Detroit police and started a police investigation. Nah. You didn’t call the police, Mike.
I called the police. On you. From Tacoma Street on Detroit’s east side.
Charlie the Duff. The Enjoyer. Live from downtown Detroit.
It’s the No Bullshit News Hour with my main man. Charlie the Duff. And Karen Dumas.
Whoops. Still stood. Break it up.
She’s back. No more bullshit. Before we get to Karen Dumas and Conspiracy Ken.
If you’re listening, let me just let me just give you the information what you just saw. Mike Duff is a fucking criminal. What’s going on? As you saw or heard, there’s a working mother on Detroit’s east side with four, four young babies.
Her name’s Andrea Smith. And she should be worried right now about the price of gas and formula and diapers. But that’s the least of it.
He says human being. She’s more concerned about the gaping demolition holes on each side of her house filled with muck and rainwater and debris. And as you just heard her, she’s fuming.
Mayor, clean it up. She got four kids. What if they fall in there? What if a dog falls in there? You can’t get a dog out of there.
They’re eight feet deep. As far as Miss Smith is concerned, Mike Duggan belongs nowhere near the governor’s mansion. In fact, he belongs in a defendant’s chair.
The city of Detroit, under his 12 year stewardship, finds itself the victim of a mass poisoning of unknown proportions. Toxic dirt was used by the city to fill those demolition holes. And Duggan, by all accounts, pushed his demolition executives to the breaking point.
So he might have something good to campaign on as he makes his run to become Michigan’s next governor. But the mud pies exploded in his face. With no real plan to fix things, Duggan and the new administration of Mary Sheffield engage in profitty, stupidity, and sleight of hand to keep the lid on an environmental scandal that could rival the size of Flint’s water crisis.
Some quick but necessary background, my fellow Michiganders, because you’re going to pay for this shit. You’re going to have to. We can’t leave it.
The United States Treasury, in 2014, sent $260 million to the city of Detroit to help eradicate its enormous blight. You remember, that’s when Duggan took office. Demolition contractors were allowed by Duggan.
Listen to this, Karen. This is the linchpin. They were allowed by Duggan to charge whatever they wanted for clean soil to fill the holes.
Incredulously, no receipts or proof of purchase were required. No receipts or proof of purchase were required. Then the feds caught on, busted the contractors, and fined the city $5 million, and the city agreed going forward to require receipts for the dirt.
But the city never did collect those receipts. Once again, in 2021, the US Treasury Department, because there was a grand jury here on this shit, issued subpoenas for those receipts that the city was required to keep. They did not, and the city was popped for $13 million in bogus dirt charges.
Duggan, who’s dodged more grand juries in his career than John Gotti, settled with the US government for $1.5 million, and away went Treasury. But then Duggan pushed for another $250 million, that’s a quarter billion, from taxpayers to continue his blight crusade. And again, neither he nor his minions required proof that the dirt was clean.
A decade, more than 27,000 houses, that’s all the houses in Flint combined, were demolished under the stewardship of the Teflon leprechaun, and people like Ms. Smith have no idea just how bad things are in their neighborhoods. Real flesh and blood people. So far, the city’s admitted to 600 suspect holes and is now in the process of testing them.
And you read about this in the newspapers. After we made inquiries, they put up a website. But how do we know that’s the extent of it? Remember, Duggan never required the demolition contractors to provide proof of the origin of the dirt going back a dozen years.
They were taking it out of the Detroit River. They were dumping I-96 in the city, I-94. They were dumping all the toxic shit from Northland.
That’s what they did to Ms. Smith and her children. So is it hundreds of lots? Thousands of lots? Tens of thousands of lots? We could be talking about hundreds of millions of dollars in cleanup costs. And now we come to find out that Duggan’s handpicked minority contractor, Brian McKinney of the Guyanga Company, was allowed to illegally work without construction insurance.
So we can’t go to the insurance companies because there wasn’t any. Current Mayor Mary Shetfield certainly knew of this. She was sleeping with the guy, after all, while simultaneously voting to award him millions of dollars in contracts.
So now the taxpayer, me, you, Ms. Smith, even Conspiracy Ken, are on the hook of having to pay twice for the same dirty job. Just a few weeks ago, Duggan, as you saw, was cornered by the press who are suddenly interested in dirt. Let me remind you what Duggan said.
Quote, as of December 31st, when I left office, every single site that had been tested at elevated contaminants had been removed and clean dirt replaced. Did you see the clean dirt replaced? No. You notice Duggan looked like he was beat with a feather pillow, right? It’s either that or too much Ozempe.
But either way, he was lying. You saw it. Take a trip to Tacoma Street.
I meet you. I beg you. Get off your ass.
Stop regurgitating what these fucking criminals are telling you. And go to Tacoma Street and ask Ms. Smith, who’s living with those four kids in a hellscape of incompetence and danger. No less than eight gaping holes were on her street.
Right, Ken? Yeah. Fucked up when you saw it, right? Very fucked up. Would that happen? That would be unacceptable in any neighborhood in America.
And it should be unacceptable. Nobody working in the suburbs would have done that, nor would they have been allowed to do that. Uh-huh.
Now, in my neighborhood, somebody bought, like, you could put four houses on this lot, right? And they dug it up. Ain’t gonna put one big, you know, McMansion on that shit. I measured it today.
It’s eight foot cyclone fencing all around the property. There’s no fucking way. I’ve lived in LA.
Nowhere in LA does this go on. I lived in New York. Nowhere in the state of New York is this allowed to go on.
I’ve lived in Oakland, California. Not allowed to go on. Why here? That’s a good question.
That’s with Miss Smith. That’s our people. You’re right.
The toctus dirt in Miss Smith’s neighborhood was removed last October and November. And it’s not in there like dug and claimed. No dirt.
Instead, the crater’s the size of municipal swimming pools. With the spring ground thawing, the holes had transmogrified into a quagmire of clay and rock. And if a dog fell in, it wouldn’t be able to get out, much less Miss Smith’s toddler.
And as you heard, it’s been like this for a minute, she said, since before Christmas. Well, the mayor said he cleaned it up. She didn’t know.
That’s a lie. And she’s not gonna vote for him for governor. But with the dirt scandal spreading across the region, because it’s now into Southfield, Miss Smith’s solitary vote is the least of Duggan’s worries.
You know what’s going on in Southfield? Okay. So this all started. We did that piece.
Whistleblowers. They’re taking the mall and they’re dumping it into Detroit. Well, it wasn’t really the mall.
What Southfield was doing is they wanted to redevelop the mall. So they started taking all their municipal waste, dirt, highways, sewage, and dumping it there. And then allowing other contractors to dump it there.
And then Southfield couldn’t get it done. So they sold it to another developer. And that developer had to get rid of it.
And so Detroit’s living with it. So I’m hearing the feds are involved up there, the state. You know, Charlie, you ask why is that allowed to happen here? We have to ask the people who are in charge, why are you doing that here? Like you’re here.
You are supposed to be doing what’s best for the people that elected you. Well, in that case, that’s a question too. But why would they do that here? Why do we have people who sell out the people that they represent for what, a buck, you know, a dollar, another elected position? Why? That’s the other question.
Why? You know, I’m tired of hearing it. You’ll hear it in Lansing. I’m tired of Detroit.
Sick of it. Tired. Like, you know, whatever.
We’re not. How many times are you going to come to the well? It spread to Southfield, you know? Okay, now it’s Oakland County. Hey, Southfield, did you know, and this, the source is the office of the inspector general in Detroit.
I don’t yet have the analytics for the soil. I will get that. But I’m, I’m quoting the OIG, the contaminated soil at North, the old Northland mall, America’s, the world’s first mall is sitting in the heart of the future city.
Cause Southfield was built post-war future city gleaming towers, orange glass, the first mall, unbelievable. And right in the middle of your Valhalla, you’re having your little piece of the world. They get, they got toxic dirt been blowing on you for a decade.
But take it back to this myth and the street. You guys counted eight. That’s that particular block.
Just on that block. That’s just on that block. Big, enormous site.
Two of them right next together. Intermixed with houses. And that wasn’t the only set of children we saw next to those.
So there’s a whole big neighborhood, lots of kids there, lots of holes. So let’s talk about that for a second. There’s a kid or a couple of kids and they’re walking to or from school.
Remember we had talking about, you know, walking to school and being safe for decades now. So they just either trip or do as kids do. And they’re horsing around and a kid falls in there.
You got stuck. The kid gets stuck, drowns. You don’t have to have a lot of water to drown in or there’s, and then everybody’s reacting.
Then we got a press conference and we got all these organizations and we want our kids to be safe and everything becomes reactionary as opposed to being preventative. Why are those things open? Why are kids allowed and families? And then you also have contaminants that you’re inhaling from the standing water. Don’t forget about that.
Okay. So like the first hole was dug up in late October. So let’s just say all of November, all of December, all of January, all of February, and when almost all the way through March, five fucking months.
Now what to say to counselors, you saw busted the rash, showed him a few pictures. They’re playing dumb. Okay.
So a couple of contracts have come in to fill those holes, but not all the holes, right? Not all the holes, even on that street. And I’m like, okay, so that’s on the record. Acknowledge it.
Where are you getting the money for this? And you know how much it’s going to cost just to take the dirt out, which they already did and then put new dirt in the contracts for $40,000 per hole. Yeah. How much was it to demo it in the first place? 25.
So you add that on top of that. So now you’re at 65 grand. So now you’re at six and that.
Yeah. Okay. So let’s say, let’s say right now.
That’s stupid. And I’ve told by impeccable sources, the number of holes keeps growing. And the only way they’re going to identify holes is if law enforcement agencies like the police or the inspector general refers it to the city.
So we can just close our eyes to the rest of it, right? We got, but if it, let’s just say it was 500 and it’s way more. And there are 40 grand. That’s $20 million.
The city’s trying to push through an income tax because it’s broke. We know it’s broke. No way.
I thought we had a surplus and the balance was budget. The budget was balanced and we’re riding high. I thought.
Do we have that clip? Hey folks, I’m sorry. Okay. Let me do this.
Just stay with us here because we’re always talking like lions fans. I listened to 971 the ticket. Do you do too? Yeah.
You don’t sport. No, I don’t. Jay, you listen to 971, the ticket.
Okay. They’re like, what are the lines going to do? They gotta, they gotta loosen up the salary cap. They’re going to have to restructure golf.
Right. Who’s doing 60 million this year? Like we know golf’s contract doesn’t affect us. This does.
So bear with me. Pretend this is the lions still got Detroit in the name. It’s Detroit city.
Okay. Duggan’s so fake. He’s afraid of me.
I called his press people. He’s running for governor. They wouldn’t even put me on the press list.
Well, Charlie, they kicked us both of us off. They kicked me off of a list that we created when he took office in the mayor’s office, his communications, people wouldn’t even keep, they wouldn’t even keep us on the media list when we were writing for the paper, doing this and the whole, they’re like, no, we don’t want you to know what a brave mayor. But that’s, that’s, that’s, that’s unheard of.
What a toad. If you can’t look me in the eye, how are you going to look Trump in the eye? But how are you going to withhold public? Matt Hall in the eye. How are you going to get, how are you going to, you know, try to get your way in the legislature if you can’t even handle the media.
But the same way he got things quote unquote done here. Mike Duggan is a bully. He’s a political bully.
He always has no opposition in Detroit. He didn’t have to do with Republicans and he never had to do with Republicans in Detroit. He’s a Republican.
He is. He always has been. I don’t know where you all get this stuff from him being a Democrat.
He’s been a Republican since he’s been in Livonia. He’s been a Republican. He’s really neither.
He’s an opportunist. Well, and he, but he did a McNamara flip when McNamara wanted to run for county exec and he emerged as an independent. So he’s taken a page from his playbook.
His father was a federal judge was appointed by Reagan. Am I correct? I believe so. Okay.
So I’m not invited because I know what I’m talking about. So what did I do? So I’m looking, you know, like Duggan did two press conferences in December. Here’s the state of the city.
And Mary, like a, a fucking circus seal is clapping. I wouldn’t have clapped because we got the video. Now Duggan was saying, we got a hundred million dollars surplus because we’re so great.
Two things are going on. One, you know, all that COVID money, the ARPA money, it has to be spent by the end of this year, by December 31st, it had to be pushed out at December 31st, 2024. So last year.
So what do you do? All you do is put the unspent money in the budgets. You say, you’re going to hire a bunch of people. You don’t hire a bunch of people.
And then you say, look, we got a surplus. Let’s see. It’s called washing.
But this is the other thing. And I really wish people residents and the media understood and shared that all budgets have to be balanced by law. So they’re always balanced on paper.
Told some people to stand up and say, Hey, we’ve got a balanced budget means absolutely nothing. Point taken. Yep.
Point taken. But you, you can have unfunded shit like pensions, which is what got us. So here’s the other part.
This is the chief financial officer explaining, Hey, you guys budgeted for a $60 million surplus. It’s twice that. How did you do that? Well, listen.
What you’re seeing is that there were expenses that departments had that were, we were able to reclass to our bond dollars. So some of that surplus is related to our ability to be able to reclass expenses that are eligible for bonds. So that’s why originally we thought we were going to be closer to 60.
But as we look at our spending and we do a very, we drill down on every single expense and there are expenses that can be eligible for bonds. And then we would move those there, which then drives up our general fund surplus. So that’s, that accounted for about 40 million.
Okay. Of what you see here. Okay, great.
Thank you. Foreign language to me, but I will figure it out when I listen back on the recording. This is, this is relatively simple.
Here comes the mansplaining. Wait a minute. So two things that I take away from that, that, that sounds like a struggling family that’s working from check to check people, families that are criticized for doing the same thing that they’re doing.
I mean, that’s, that’s what I take away from that. Okay. So, right.
To explain to the folks what you heard, it’s like, think of Jerry Coff’s contract restructuring. She just said we bonded for expenses. What does that mean? Bond means I borrowed.
That means I took my credit card, right? I needed cash. I went to the store. I bought a six pack.
And I said, give me a hundred bucks. You still owe a hundred bucks. Now you got to pay 25% interest on it.
You borrowed to cover your expenses and you’re calling that surplus. That’s not surplus. Why did they do that? Because it’s all got to go into this demolition money.
That’s, that’s how they’re going to pay for it. And who’s the media person not smart enough to say, I mean, why would you say I hadn’t thought like a foreign language? Yeah. Just like that.
That’s over my head. Let me, it’s great. It’s simple.
Real simple. We just did a really good job. Don’t ask questions.
We’re fake. Mike Duggett. Would you deal? Okay.
And that’s the thing. I mean, how long I’ve been doing it since 2015. Go ahead.
Can I ask you a question, Charlie? And I, and I’m asking you this because I want people to understand. I try to explain something. They like, oh, Charlie’s, you know, he’s off the cuff.
He’s all of that. Tell me, tell us in your heart. Why does this matter to you? It’s really simple.
This is the truth. I’ve got all the awards hanging on my wall. When I died, my book says New York times bestseller, anything that you could achieve in this career.
I, I feel satisfied with my career. There came a point in my life where I’m just giving back because I like Andrea Smith. She was cool.
Wasn’t she? She was awesome. And she’s wearing a security guard uniform and she’s working her ass off. She reminds me of my mom.
One less kid, single woman working her ass off in Detroit, like my mom. And you’re doing this to her. And it’s too hard to see because the professionals are supposed to know what’s going on.
Like it’s a foreign language. Like, what did I just fucking hear? And I tell people all the time, and it may be surprising, but there are people who care. And Charlie is just one of those people who cares.
Now he has a flamboyant approach to telling the story, but the story is rooted in fact, and people should pay attention to the information and not be distracted by the presentation. Well, let’s put it this way. This is important.
Your son’s sitting over there. He’s a man of the world now. He’s inherited the earth.
He won’t inherit it. He’s already there. Just like the book says.
And this is not very interesting to him. So, you know, when I started at Fox, I think you might’ve even said it to me, Ken, that little box, be big in it, fill it up. Because what did we just talk about, Mark? Dirt, asbestos, cadmium, mercury, bonds, demolition.
Now we’re borrowing to cover expenses. That’s how Detroit went bankrupt. And in a young man, you’ve inherited the earth.
In a couple of years, we’re not going to have the money for those pensions. It keeps up like this. That’s now the old people.
In fact, because city council now knows we’re in on all of it. They tried to watch this folks. Ready? They tried to remediate one of these holes with emergency money.
Emergency money is HUD money, community block grant stuff. Yeah. You by federal law cannot take federal money and put it into fixing a fraudulent construction scheme.
So I showed up and you know what they said? How did that get in there? That was a mistake. Let’s red flag that. Take that out.
So yesterday they snuck these in and nobody watched. Now, how do I know about this? Ladies and gentlemen, this is really kind of cool. I think, how do I know about dirt? Okay.
Why did I get involved in dirt? Remember when I was on Fox two and I would do the Americans and I’d go everywhere. I’d be in the Ferguson riots. I’d, I’d be on the border.
You know what I’m doing? All kinds of crazy shit. And I will come home and I open up the free press and there’s Doug and talking about a great job he’s doing with the demolitions. And I’m like 15,000, 20,000.
This is where it started when Karen Dumas was basically trying to run this city under Dave Bing and land this crashing airplane of a municipality. Right. Try to save everybody.
I was up your ass on these demolitions because they being did demolition 10,000. And I had a little spy in the building department and he would bring me the lists. And I would, I would show up to these things and bust Dave’s ass.
I like Dave. But that’s what you were supposed to. And I love you.
But that’s what you were supposed to do. Exactly. And nobody’s doing that anymore.
And that is to the disservice of residents. You get kicked out of the club. Yeah, I guess.
But they care about being in the club. They want it. They got to be in the lunch crowd.
That’s true. That’s what, that’s what they kind of, that’s a little nickname for the, the Lansing people who cover the government, the lunch crowd, because they got up, they can’t jeopardize their invitation to the table. If they ask hard questions, no one will invite them and they won’t feel special kicked off the list like we did.
My friends, the people I consort with, they don’t wear suits. They’re not carrying briefcases. They don’t have stickers on their car.
They’re normal work a day. Interesting people who like football. They wear UPS uniforms.
They wear security guard uniforms. They’re the people to help. They drive cars that weren’t built in this century sometimes.
Yeah. Yeah. But they’re the ones that’s helping to keep our community together.
I mean, they deserve better. They deserve more. Are the community and they’re being lectured to by a class of people that got to be exposed.
But I think people too are also in a position where they’re struggling right now for so much that this, you know, doesn’t land at the top of their priority list. Although they should pay attention to it because it’ll have an impact on them down the road. I hope people listening are somewhat interested because this is just like a natural conversation I have every day with my friends.
This is what we talk about. This should make me old. I know.
I don’t look at going to be 60 going to be 60 in a couple of days. I know you don’t know. It’s just safe to compliment.
I know. All right. Listen now.
How’s the house over there? I’m not saying where. How’s your house? It’s a nice house. It’s okay.
No complaints and caught on fire. Thank God. The pipes haven’t burst.
Thank God. Do you know what you do if that happens? I assume call my plumber. Public Adjusters Midwest.
Don’t call the plumber. Oh, right away. Listen, write this down here.
Okay. But don’t wish that on me, Charlie. That’s that’s a lot.
Listen, that’s just like Mike Duggan’s budgeting, you know, and the situation going on in Iran. Hoping is not a plan. That’s true.
All right. You’re absolutely right. So it’ll be the worst day of your life.
Public Adjusters Midwest. This is for real. They even have metal cards.
Like, you know, they’re like American Express. Yeah, this their number now sits in my insurance papers. Okay.
I’m not called. I’m going to call the fire department first, and then I’m calling Public Adjusters Midwest. Okay.
The insurance company has an adjuster. They come over and they tell you what the damage is. Right.
Right. Just like female when your shit floods. Yep.
These people are your adjuster. They deal with the insurance company. What do you know about a roof? What do you know about fire damage inside the wall? If you can’t see it, you don’t know about it.
You hire these guys. So they basically are your insurance lawyer. They handle the entire claims process.
They get you more money and they can provide a contractor who’ll do the work at a 10% discount. Because I think the way it works is they’ll take 10% of the final settlement. So if the insurance companies offers you 10 without them, okay, you get 10.
If they offer you 20, then you get 18. And then the contract will come in and you make up the 10. Isn’t that smart? Because if the insurance company is not interested in giving you anything more, then they have to.
And so they’re going to come and approach it like I’m cutting a corner. We can give you two screws instead of four and hope that it holds it together. Yeah, I get it.
So call pamfirst.com, P-A-M, call pamfirst.com or 855-975-2020. Last thing, when I went in there, I was fascinated. I sat with him a couple of hours, ran him through the questions.
Do you know if you’re covered for sewage backup? Do you know if you’ve got full coverage? If you’ve got what you need? I’m not sure, but I assume that we should. Again, assuming is not a plan. Well, I mean, you know, that’s… Here’s what we do.
855-975-2020. Listeners of the program, they’ll go over your insurance for you. No cost.
They’re not insurance brokers. They’ll just make sure you got what you need. The right kind of coverage.
Now, this is also important because you think about the lady who had a daughter in her vehicle and there was an issue because her coverage wasn’t what it was supposed to be. And the little girl wasn’t covered. So yeah, we think… They don’t do cars.
No, no, no, no, not cars. I’m just thinking in terms of insurance. We all think that because we have insurance that it covers it.
So no, I was just saying that was just an example of how you think your insurance is covering you and it’s not. But Mark, Ken, Karen, did you notice how much your insurance gone up over the last couple of years? Oh yeah. Holy fuck.
My water, everything. I want to make sure if I’m paying, I’m going to get it. Charlie.
Yeah, a lot of people don’t know this, but insurance companies, they don’t like to pay out money. Well, I know that. I don’t know if you guys… It’s crazy.
Yeah, it’s one of those things. They really don’t like it. Their job is to make money.
And the way they make money is not give you money. But that’s health insurance, auto insurance, home insurance, all insurance. I mean, it’s… If insurance companies love to give out money, then Sam Bernstein wouldn’t have a job.
Just, you wouldn’t see all those lawyer commercials. Insurance companies love to give out money. Okay.
Now, with the money you do have, you want to make sure it’s working for you and not running away from you and do not believe your financial statements.
That’s just a piece of paper. You need to talk to Luke Nowacki at Pinnacle Wealth 248-663-4748. What a beautiful mind.
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What is 50 grand after tax? $37,750. What about state tax? Yeah, I’m throwing both in there. What about sales tax? There’s no sales tax.
Well, you’re buying the beer. There’s income. You’re buying the beer.
Yeah, we write that off. Luke Nowacki, Financial Wealth Management. Expense allowance.
248-663-4748. Does he got a website over there? He does. I don’t know what it is.
He’s far more responsive when you call him. But if you want to, yeah, just search him, Luke Nowacki, Pinnacle Wealth. It’ll pop right up.
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Now, another big story emanating from here and then all of a sudden everybody else is doing. Boy, I wonder how you found out about that. Tracy Cornack, back in court, bound over to circuit court in Kent County.
That’s Grand Rapids for those of you that don’t know it. You might remember Tracy Cornack was the acting treasurer of the State Democratic Party, wine pals with Gretchen Whitmer, worked for Dana Nessel. We caught her four years ago while working at the Detroit News.
Allegedly, well now the judge believes there’s probable cause too. So I don’t know if I have to do that anymore. She’s been charged with ripping off a brain-damaged old lady and apparently, God bless her, Rose Byrd, the brain-damaged old lady who passed away, didn’t get a Catholic funeral.
She was incinerated, much cheaper that way. Didn’t like being called a brain-damaged little old lady to which I, if Rose is looking up, it’s a joke. We look it down.
It’s a little to know what you were going through. So if I just said an elderly client that- It doesn’t resonate. You’re finding out in court now, she was in a catastrophic car accident, sharing settlement with Sam Bernstein.
We got ahold of it. She had to wear a helmet when she used her walker because she would fall over like a lot. So she was in a wheelchair.
This is who we’re trying to protect, Karen. Yeah, I understand. And that’s who needs to be protected.
We do. I mean, people don’t think about that until they have a friend or a family member in that position. But you have to be able to make sure these things are in place so everybody’s protected.
And so what came of this? Interestingly enough, the judge added a fourth felony charge. Whoa. Attempted, what is attempted false pretense is over $50,000, but less than $100,000.
So she’s up there for embezzlement of a vulnerable adult, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Look how long it took, Charlie. You went to her house.
I mean, we talked about this for years. How long it took for somebody to pay attention to it and follow up? She had very powerful friends. She had very powerful friends.
One of them was the attorney general who, and there’s a lot of evidence to show, inserted herself into the case illegally, breached the firewall. When we wrote it in the news. And let the defendant, well, not even defendant, let the target in the investigation read the entire investigative file.
And then close and say, there’s nothing to see here. And Nestle said, well, this is holding up a judge appointment for this woman. This woman could have been a judge.
If people didn’t see this story. Would have been a judge. She would have been a judge.
She would have been sat in judgment of us. She would have been trying to put people in prison. So they let her go and she continued allegedly to feast on the old woman for three more years.
The old woman has a son who’s a certified schizophrenic. He’s also on a trust. She got her claws into that one.
Apparently, I think it’s today they’re in court. I think Corneck has resigned that trusteeship and somebody, the daughter or the sister of Rose wants to be the trustee of her nephew. And somebody in this probate world is trying to get his hands on it.
To which everybody in the world has got a probate problem. Like Tommy Hearns is calling me and I’m like, I appreciate it. And I get all of it.
And I read all of it. And if I don’t get back, I hope you understand. There’s not enough hours in the day and I’m not a lawyer.
But I’m trying. But Charlie, people see you as the one person willing to try to push through the BS and that you’re willing to take stuff on. And so everybody, I mean, I get emails and messages all the time.
Can you show this to Charlie? Can you get to people? There are people that are looking for help. There are people that are looking for solutions and they don’t have anybody else to turn to. And man, like, you know, and it’s a swamp like this.
So political. Do you have that footage right there? OK, just pause right there. Now you see those of you listening.
Let me describe it. You see the lawyer. Just pause it, Martin.
You see the lawyer right there standing on the left. Yes. And you see Kordag and her lawyer seated on the right, right in between them.
Go back to the back wall there. There’s a dude in an Oxford and a sweater. I have it on good authority.
OK, that’s enough. Yeah, I see. I was told that that’s the ex-husband of a current Supreme Court justice.
If true, what’s he doing in there monitoring this thing? This run of the mill probate shit. That’s how deep this goes. Kordag herself was the campaign manager for Bridget McCormick, who was the chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court.
She worked in Dana Nessel’s transition team. She’s Gretchen Whitmer’s pal. Everybody’s entangled.
They all knew. So remember, we worked at the Detroit News. They all knew and they were all getting campaign donations from her too.
Some of this money probably. Remember, she’s the treasurer of the party, so she’s the one dispersing the million-dollar checks. Wow, that’s unfortunate, Charlie.
It is. And it’s exhausting because at some point you expect better from people. You do.
And I don’t think that’s unrealistic. Friend of mine, I know she’s listening. She listens all the time.
And I know a lot of you do and I’m really proud of that. So we thank you. We were working on demolition yesterday and she said, damn, Charlie, we’ve been working all day on this.
I go, yep, all day. But that’s what it takes though, Charlie. It does.
It’s what it takes. Running details, running details. So you’re not just shooting your mouth off, which we’ll get to.
Just shooting your mouth off on air and giving people false information. Now, remember, I wasn’t fired from the Detroit News when I said, see you next Tuesday to Nestle, right? I was kind of forced to resign and fine because my own colleagues were piling on me. And God bless Frank.
Frank Donnelly went to court there and wrote about this. And Frank is a superb writer, right? He’s probably the best newspaper writer in the state of Michigan. And so, you know, it’s good to see him.
He looks well. He looked really well. And then they have him doing it.
Because they shat all over it. When I put up, see you next Tuesday. My colleagues, that’s disgusting.
You’re misogynist. I didn’t know what that was. I was like, remember we talked about that, Mark? I said, is that some kind of suburban thing or something? That’s a white woman.
Is it a white woman? Okay. I had no idea. I’m like, why is everybody so upset? What is that? You would have known if I said, bitch.
Yeah, but I mean, okay. But I guess, I don’t know. That never made it to the city or to the hood.
I didn’t know what it was. So let’s think about this. Okay.
Well, we’re just looking at media, just getting on the gravy. So Frank writes, this was a hot potato in Lansing for the last four years. When the story first appeared in 2023 in the Detroit news.
Well, it was 2022 and I wrote it. And the story that caused the controversy, which I said, see you next Tuesday, was when I exposed Nestle covering this up in 2023. Anyway, I’ve had a lot of time to think.
I looked up misogynist. It’s not gender specific. You don’t have to be a guy.
It’s gender fluid. It’s gender fluid. In fact, there’s six different sexes that could be a misogynist.
It’s a rainbow of sexes out there. Okay. Well, here’s your misogynist.
Tracy Kornack was a misogynist. You alleged like, let’s, the judge found probable cause a brain damaged old woman. Tens and tens and tens of thousands of dollars left in the dark taped her, her lights shut, took light bulbs out, turned the temperature down.
Dana Nessel, who allowed this to go on Gretchen Whitmer. That was your friend, everybody on Facebook. Like, why are you pointing it out to Whitmer? You know, for sure.
She’s not going to answer. No. I want you to know that I reached out to her to make sure, you know, she knew about this.
And then another woman share alive and good over there at the Detroit news. Oh, I’m sorry. Chad, live and good.
All right. That’s the dude who decides that’s disgusting. You need to resign your own colleague, the political editor from the Detroit news.
Let me point this out. Since that day in 2023, the Troy news never touched the story. Let it go.
They aided and abetted in this when it appeared in your paper. That’s a fucking sin. And today I call you up.
Is that the wrong thing to do? No. Well, let me say this to Charlie. When we first joined the news in 2022, I posted on social media, Charlie and I are going to be doing Collins all along.
Everybody was excited. Somebody saw that the other day. I don’t know how.
And they commented on it and said, congratulations. So it put it back in circulation. And we’ve since gotten another hundred.
Congratulations from people who think that we just joined the news today. And that was in 2022. And neither of us are there anymore.
So did any of those people say they’re going to subscribe? Yeah, they did. They said, oh, they said, no, we’re going to, you know, we’re going to read. It’s going to be great and blah, blah, blah.
But that just goes to show you people aren’t reading the paper. They aren’t even reading Facebook posts in detail. That’s three-year-old post.
Yeah. And look, do not subscribe. Four years old.
This is 2026. In fact, you know, I said it before, I’ll say it again. In order to really unsubscribe because it kept resubscribing.
I had to cancel my credit card because, you know, it’s the $1 for the first month. And then it’s $14 a month. I paid $20.
$19.99 for the news. $19.99 for the free press. You should probably reduce that.
You should probably cancel them. That’s almost $500 for these things. Well, Cranes is over $200 for their, I mean, it’s expensive.
New York Times. You get some value for Cranes though. I don’t think you can say the same for the Detroit News.
More than over a grand to be mal-informed. Why don’t you share passwords? That wouldn’t be right. Oh, that’s right.
How unethical of me. Wow. Just, just wow.
Then there’s Tommy Hearns. Okay. Karen and I both know Tommy.
What do you make of that? Okay. So we were not in court last week. News reports.
Here we go. WXYZ was the only camera in court today. It’s like we were doing a podcast.
They only knew about it. Yeah. We already did the story three weeks ago.
Yeah, you did. You did that. That’s, nobody had, nobody knew about it.
Nobody was talking about it. Nobody was helping him. Nobody was trying to help.
No. So it, it’s unfortunate because I think it’s pretty common in families. First, either somebody dies or they become incapacitated.
Everybody vultures in. We just happened to be witness to this because he’s a celebrity. But where were all these people, you know, when he lost his house or where was he when he was in transition from being, you know, the world champ to just an average citizen? Where were these people then? Right.
Is anybody doing their job and checking out what happened to his house? And if there’s some money to be recouped and are we willing to even put it this way? His house went up for auction, sheriff’s auction, because he owed like about 125 grand in taxes and it sold for 250. And so you would think Mr. Hearns is entitled to $125,000 minimum, right? Did the statute limit it? Like there’s a redemption period. I think there’s six months in order to ask for that money back.
Maybe missed it. Maybe, uh, the crooks in, uh, the County of Oakland, because man, my water bill’s going up, man. It’s better money.
Like, like no tomorrow. Like that’s remember when Oakland County used to be run fiscally responsibly. It’s not now.
And they’re taking Tommy’s house. RIPO Brooks Patterson. Yeah.
People, people didn’t always like Brooks, but he did what was supposed to be done for the people he represented. I remember a lot of press conferences where we’ve done the budget for three years ahead of now. And then, then after he died, that’s that shit stopped because nobody gives it because Dave Woodward and the council there just spend money commission, spend money as long as there’s a sheets, gas station, whatever.
Just spend, spend us into oblivion. Dave Coulter is the County. No, I’m Woodward.
Dave Woodward is the, uh. No, I’m, I’m, I’m moving on from Woodward. Dave Coulter is the chief executive.
Dave Coulter, whatever Doug had asked him to vote on when it came to water rate increases, it would happen. Why did Oakland County have to help pay for that big water main that busted and froze Southwest Detroit out? Why? Not that we’re going to let our people freeze. You know what I’m saying? There’s FEMA money and et cetera, et cetera.
But I think people too, they, they, they sit back and say, there’s so much going on. We don’t know where to look at first. We don’t know who to look at, who to ask for.
It just becomes overwhelming and they just get, uh, accountability fatigue. They just say, Those are the people in charge. And those are the people in charge.
Right there. Good one, Ken. Exactly.
I mean, so, you know, setting the record straight. The, I wouldn’t go into it, but like just the time, money and energy it took just, just to get Tommy someplace safe. And the news is he’s been appointed a conservator and a guardian.
Right. His son, Ronald, I understand based on published reports. His older son, Ronald.
Right. But they’re still wagging this crap out on Facebook. Somebody sent me a, I mean, which is elementary to me, uh, it’s petty, but somebody sent me a screenshot where two ladies were, and they were like, yeah, well, Karen Dumas.
And I’m going to tell you all now. Don’t put me in that shit. I don’t have anything to do with it.
I don’t do gossip. I don’t do pettiness. Keep me out of it.
Because if I have to inject myself in that, it’s going to be a whole different conversation. I’m not, I don’t, I don’t do that. Cause that Facebook is like the TV news crowd.
It’s like, I want clicks and I was involved in this. And it’s like, whatever game you play and play it, leave me out of it. You know, I’m doing what I got to do for the, I told you.
The guy, if you’re my age, Tommy Hearns is your spiritual big brother. If you’re from around here. Right.
And if it’s your big brother’s in trouble, then you help your big brother. And that’s it. But he and the lady that Tracy Korn, everybody deserves.
Nobody deserves to be taken advantage of. Everybody deserves to be protected and safe. They don’t need to be exploited by the very people who should be helping to protect them.
Whether you’re Tommy Hearns or what was her name? Rose. Yeah. Yeah.
Or Ms. Rose. Like they both deserve the same thing. Or Ms. Smith and her children.
Or Ms. Smith and her kids. You’re absolutely right. You know, I hope this is interesting to y’all because that’s, that’s really what it’s about.
And my thoughts really do go out to the people at the synagogue. Where do you try to blow it up? Birmingham. Isn’t it in Birmingham? I was in West Bloomfield.
I spoke at that place. It’s huge. A while ago.
It was really cool. It’s the biggest reformed synagogue in the world. In the world? That’s what they said, man.
Wow. Good people, man. Really good people.
And what were you telling me like before we went out here today? Like how the media. Yeah. Watching the coverage.
I’m convinced that the people in charge have ruined my former profession. It’s just, it’s just crazy. I mean, the problem is, is that you cover an event, it’s breaking news coverage.
As soon as it happened, it was about one o’clock or so. People went on at least by two o’clock. It was breaking news coverage from two o’clock till after the evening news.
And what happens when you don’t have facts is you get your little anchors and your reporters out there and they got to fill time somehow. So instead of facts, they’ll speculate and then they’ll just guess. And that’s kind of what we have.
One of the local stations saying, Oh, we have the, we have the clip. Oh, we do. We do have the clip.
What do you see? I mean, it’s not just fear of Iran and what’s happening. There’s been a rise in white supremacy as well here in the U.S. White supremacy. Maybe it was white supremacy that did it.
You know, you know what? There’s really been a rise in, if we’re just going to be dumb fuckery honest is anti-Semitism. That’s true. Like I’ve never seen, I didn’t think it ever be possible.
I think it’s just a rise in hate period, Charlie. It is. Everybody hates, they hate themselves.
They hate people that don’t look like them. I mean, it’s just, it’s like that everywhere. I mean, so we hear about it, but there, there, there’s a lot of, there’s a lot of hate.
And I think that hate is driven from frustration, from anger, from lack of connectivity and awareness and just struggle that is now normal in life. And it comes out that way. And, you know, it’s like, so who was it? It was a naturalized citizen from Lebanon who is, is this true? This is what I heard.
So maybe that he was angry that members of his family in Lebanon died at the bombing of the Israelis. That’s, that’s what we heard. That’s what I heard.
That was known later in the day, probably after the evening shows. And then the narrative switch, the media narrative switch. Oh, that poor guy, his family was killed by Israel.
That’s why he did it. And then a few hours later, we’ve come to find out his poor family were actually Hezbollah commanders. And then what did they do? So what did they do? They shut up about it.
So he packs a van full of fireworks and tries to blow up children. Okay. Now look, you’re half Arabic.
Yeah. I, my best friend’s Arabic. When my mom went through a divorce, where do you think I went in high school to study for a warm meal, you know, to, to succeed with my friend.
I had a heart, an Arab. It’s part of my culture. So I’m not hating that.
I see more bullshit from Fox news and well, you know, Dearborn, the leaders of Dearborn. And I’m like, you mean the mayor? I mean, the mayor is a Muslim, the leaders. And it’s very, very, very Islamic.
It’s 55% Muslim, but it’s an American place, but it sounds good. And it feeds the fear, you know, that every or the blame that everybody is looking for. And that’s just not, it’s just, it’s not, it’s not fair.
I mean, it’s really just not fair. I mean, that’s almost like when one person does something, everybody that they represent, whether it’s a gender or race or they become guilty is like, Oh, those people always do. No, that person did it.
Like it’s unfair to. I mean, you know, that mosque did hold a funeral for the guys, Hezbollah militant people who were killed before he did the attack. So his family gets killed.
He goes to the mosque for the funeral for the Hezbollah commander. Okay. It’s his family member.
He’s a Hezbollah commander though. Well, you know, do churches really do big funerals for like neo-Nazis and stuff? I don’t think they do. Jeffrey Dahmer’s dad sat in court every day.
That’s what I’m saying. You, you have family members. We, everybody has a family member.
That’s, you know, my, my, my church. Don’t hijack my show. Shut the fuck up.
A conspiracy. Yeah. We’re going to do a new bit.
Right wing Ken. It’s I got a jingle already. It goes like this.
Change it. Conspiracy Ken. Conspiracy Ken.
It’s never the cock. It’s always the hand. Conspiracy Ken.
I have a master’s degree in rhetoric. And he does have a master’s degree in rhetoric. So we call him Dr. Beck.
We’re going to give you a PhD. And then he went off. He didn’t even learn.
Balance it. That’s what I said. I’m going to give you a PhD.
He got a PhD in LUV. It’s a doctor. So let’s review.
This is just turned into the media has become infantilized. Don’t know how budgeting works. You don’t keep track of the people.
You cover for politicians that are favorable to giving you empty tips. You want to set the record straight on things that you’re not even on the record on. You spout off with conjecture that isn’t true.
Do better for the people. So I’d like to make an announcement here. Karen is now back full time.
It’s wonderful to hear, Karen. Thank you so much. We’ll see you next week.
Hey, you playing Mike Duggan.
