No BS Newshour Episode #403
Who Paid for the Coat?
OUTRAGEOUS!
The Democrats’ treasurer sneaked in for arraignment for embezzlement of an old woman.
The old woman’s family left out in the cold.
Are there more stunts being employed to cover for the politically untouchable? Well, Traci Kornak’s being touched now.
Joe LeBlanc was the original whistleblower in this outrageous tragedy.
Nursing Home Joe walks us through the cover up.
He reported the abuse and was fired from his job.
Attorney General Dana Nessel and her cronies bent over backwards to avoid him, not contact him or ask anybody for his cell phone number.
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Transcript:
The Democrats treasurer, Tracy Kornack, is an embezzler of an old woman. Stop touching me. Stop touching me.
At least that’s what the Kent County prosecutor believes, or he wouldn’t have charged her with three felonies. Stop touching me. What happened to the woman’s money? Stop touching me.
I got ahold of some investigation notes. Sit down. It’s pretty sick.
We’re talking about nearly a half a million dollars of what we’ve uncovered. So I think it’s important for those that are watching this to be reminded of that and that dollar amount and the negligence from the attorney general. Kornack was a court-appointed conservator to a brain-damaged old lady named Rose Bird.
The old woman complained that she was being ripped off. Adult Protective Services came in, and that’s when Kornack took it out on Rose. Get the f*** out of that mailbox, I just saw you on camera.
Kornack screamed at the old woman, cut her off from the world, dined out on her debit card, even locked her away in the dark. Rose wanted to be buried, but Kornack cremated her. It was cheaper that way.
For me, it’s more than just about the work. It’s personal. Attorney General Dana Nessel had the case first almost four years ago.
She could have caught Kornack then, but she let her go, because Kornack was a political pal. Did you collude with the Attorney General to make this case go away? Now Nessel faces potential impeachment, the first time in the history of Michigan. The Attorney General’s office is one of two things.
It is either wholly incompetent, or it is corrupt. I’d say it’s both, incompetence and corruption. And I say, justice for Rose Bird.
Live from downtown Detroit, it’s the No Bullshit News Hour, with my main man, Charlene LeDuc. And Karen Dumas. Is this the hole in one? It’s a hole in one, $50,000 if you hit it.
Luke Nowacki, Financial Wealth Management. What is $50,000 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. Eh, we write that off. Luke Nowacki, Financial Wealth Management.
248-663-4748. Tracy Kornack grew angry when she found out the authorities were onto her, and she punished the old woman for it. She isolated her.
She didn’t even tell the old woman that her family members had died. The old woman liked to sit with the lights on, so Kornack, her court-appointed conservator, removed the light bulbs and the nightlight. She instructed that the old woman’s room be kept cold.
Kornack, against the wishes of the old woman, installed cameras in her quarters so she could monitor the comings and goings of investigators. Kornack, who was recently the Michigan Democrat Party treasurer, attempted to secretly record a confidential conversation between the old woman, Rose Byrd, and a social worker who chronicled the abuse for two laborious years, trying to build a case against the politically powerful lawyer and orchestrate her removal from the old woman’s life. Investigators’ reports and forensic accounting documents obtained by me at the Michigan Enjoyer and here on the No Bullshit NewsHour paint a sickening portrait of abuse and betrayal of Rose Byrd, who died last year at age 87.
These documents also show that the authorities charged with protecting the vulnerable and elderly woman dithered. Kornack would buy items like bulk toilet paper with the old woman’s money, but only give the woman a sleeve of it. Kornack swapped Christmas cards sent by family members with unsigned replacements.
She verbally abused the old woman, quote, It is now alleged that Kornack looted Byrd’s estate while she was the Democrat treasurer, that she used the old woman’s debit card for expensive clothes and liquor and food for herself. And when the old woman died last year, Tracy Kornack incinerated her body, even though Rose had asked for a Catholic burial. Cremation, after all, is cheaper than a casket.
Kornack lived the high life, quote, Kornack had come to court in an extravagant fuchsia overcoat. Observers in the galleries wondered how it was paid for. Black would have been more appropriate.
Black is funereal. And Kornack’s career, reputation, and freedom are on life support. After a three-year investigation, Kent County Prosecutor Chris Becker last week leveled three felony charges against Kornack.
Two counts of embezzlement from a vulnerable adult and one charge of false pretenses. Combined, they carry a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison and restitution. Kornack’s friends seemingly have abandoned her.
Governor Gretchen Whitmer, whom Kornack often bragged about being a happy hour buddy, has said nothing in her defense. Attorney General Dana Nessel, too, has a personal and well-documented relationship with Kornack, having hired her as a transition team member in 2018 when she was elected attorney general. Kornack, until last year, was one of the most powerful Democrats in Michigan, tasked with handling tens of millions of dollars of the party’s cash.
Now, Kornack is a pariah. Looking at Byrd’s case file, compiled by investigators at the Kent County Sheriff’s Office and the state’s Adult Protective Services, it seems all of it could have been stopped and should have been stopped well before Byrd’s death. Six, six enforcement agencies watched in real time.
The Kent County Sheriff’s Department, Adult Protective Services, the County Prosecutor, the Attorney General’s Office, the Michigan State Police, the Attorney Grievance Commission. Governor Whitmer, as you know, was fully aware. But Kornack was powerful.
She was among the untouchables. Cross Kornack and you could find yourself on the unemployment line. In one log, Stephen Conrad, the Adult Protective Service worker assigned to Rose Byrd, memorialized the call he had with Amanda Van Essen Worth, a special assistant attorney general attached to Nestle’s office.
And I quote, The case was reviewed with Amanda, he wrote, in February 2025. She reported that because of the sensitivity of the case and the connection that Ms. Kornack has with government officials and the mystery surrounding the last people to blow the whistle on Ms. Kornack, that it was best to wait. With what is being reported, Amanda did not feel comfortable with filing in probate.
Rose Byrd died six weeks later. And in the end, Kornack will probably face a jury. But there is Nestle’s culpability too.
In her capacity as attorney general, Nestle had the original case against Kornack. Her office conducted an investigation that appears to be little more than sock puppet theater. I was contacted four years ago by Joe LeBlanc, right over there.
At the time, director of the assisted living center where Byrd lived, Heather Hills. Byrd’s room, board and medical needs were paid by an insurance company after her catastrophic car wreck more than a decade ago. LeBlanc accused Kornack of concocting an ornate scheme to bilk the insurance company of an additional $50,000 for care provided to Byrd by Kornack’s daughter.
Care that it does not appear to have ever been given. I wrote that original story in July of 2022. Nestle had no choice but to open an investigation.
Curiously, Kornack called Nestle’s chief investigator unprompted. Unprompted. That’s according to the attorney general documents obtained through a public records request.
Kornack told Nestle’s investigator that she was indeed withdrawing $50,000 from Byrd’s accounts to pay her daughter, but was planning to replenish those funds once the insurance company sent the check. But the insurance company had already sent the check six months earlier and that check was returned by Heather Hills, concerned it was all a scam. Nobody in Nestle’s office, it seems, noticed the obvious inconsistency, or they simply ignored it.
Now, with Kornack charged in Kent County, Nestle is attempting to cover her tracks since she is the subject of an impeachment investigation by the House Oversight Committee. As you heard earlier, the attorney general’s office is either one of two things, said committee chairman Jay DeBoer. It’s either wholly incompetent or it’s corrupt.
Or, in my opinion, it was both. Why? Because Nestle jumped an ethical firewall constructed by her staff to prohibit her from communicating with her pal Kornack. Again, according to internal attorney general documents, not only did Nestle communicate with Kornack, she pushed her staff to send Kornack the active criminal case file against Kornack herself.
Worse, the attorney general’s investigator never talked to Rose Byrd, nor her caregiver, nor George LeBlanc. This needed to go away, Nestle implied to her staff in December of 2022. Quote, Ms. Kornack has contacted me regarding this matter.
Mr. Redacted’s allegations are apparently holding up a potential judicial appointment for her in Kent County. She has requested the documents from our investigation, unquote. Whitmer was going to make her a judge.
And so the documents of a live case were indeed sent to Kornack. Two weeks after that, the case was officially closed. But Kornack never got that judicial appointment.
A few weeks after Nestle closed the case, a caregiver for Rose opened a bank statement of hers that had mistakenly been sent to the nursing home. Normally, all of the old woman’s mail went directly to Kornack. Even the family Christmas cards.
The caregiver noticed a $30,000 withdrawal. When confronted with the statement, Kornack snatched it and shouted, What’s that? Give it to me. You don’t need that.
That’s mine. That’s when the caregiver approached Adult Protective Services with her suspicions. And that’s Kornack.
How do I say this? Basically, that’s when Kornack really became abusive toward the fragile old woman. That, according to these protective service documents, Kornack demanded that caregivers leave Rose in the dark. She duct taped the switches in the thermostat.
She forbade the caregivers from giving Rose her constipation medicine. The reports are as outrageous as they are nauseating, especially in light of Nestle’s social media theatrics claiming elder abusers will be sent to prison. A forensic audit commissioned by the Kent County Sheriff’s Office has found questionable payments and transactions to Kornack from Byrd totaling at least $419,640.05. That does not include Rose’s insurance settlement from her car accident.
A special fiduciary for Allegan County Probate said he cannot find a record of it and is now conducting his own forensic analysis stretching back 10 years. When called in for questioning by the sheriff’s investigators, Kornack didn’t hesitate to invoke her political connections. I’ve already been cleared of this by the Attorney General’s office.
It should be noted that Byrd left a trust for her son, who’s 64 years old, and a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic, another old vulnerable person. The fiduciary is hunting for that money as well. Now, if anything good can come from this horror, it would be the passage of legislation that might truly protect society’s most vulnerable who are caught up in the hell that is Michigan Probate’s system.
A system that has shown itself to be corrupt all the way up to the governor’s mansion. And we might call that legislation the Rose Byrd Bills. Welcome in, Joe LeBlanc.
How are you? Thanks for getting in the car and motoring on down, bro. It’s good to be here. It’s important, man.
Well, how are you feeling? What do you make of this? I think you summarized it pretty well. I mean, it is what it is. Did you drive all the way down here to go, it is what it is? He’s thinking, what am I going to tell the world? It is what it is.
Are you relieved? Are you happy it’s to a conclusion? Yeah, of course. Of course. Did you ever think you’d see this? Yeah.
You did. To an extent. I mean, this isn’t okay with anybody.
This resonates across the board. This isn’t political, religious. This isn’t ethnical.
Everyone has parents. So, yeah, I mean, to an extent, I’m like, I knew it would resonate. But you need help.
And that’s what I’m most grateful for. I mean, Charlie was there from the very beginning. And Mark, I’ll tell you, you were open and honest with me from the very, very beginning.
Like, this is what you’re looking at. This is what you’re dealing with. And yeah, I’ll just leave it at that.
I smell a fucking rat in all this. It’s not done. Okay.
Kornak, according to the court docket, was supposed to be arraigned February 17th. So she could do the walk of shame, right? And probing press would get a picture. But what happened? Unannounced.
Unannounced, they changed it. She showed up yesterday morning. Good thing.
The good people at WODTV Grand Rapids, they’re connected. They got a tip she was coming in. Do we got that? There it is.
Yeah, there she is. There she is. She’s walking with her lawyer, makes a left, trying to hide behind a partition.
That’s a see-through, made of glass. There she is, waddling towards the elevator again, combing the back of her hair this time. Press the button.
There’s no reporter to yell anything. Thank God the camera man was there. That one’s going up.
Yep, still there. Had a cut. It was a long wait.
I had a lot of questions for her. Nothing. Jeez.
They didn’t take her mugshot. Where’s the mugshot? She turned herself in, so there’s no mugshot. When I got arrested, my mugshot went around the planet before I ever got out of the fucking cooler.
Why would that be? Why would there be no mugshot? Just favorable treatment? Yes. You get to turn yourself in and there’s no mugshot. Come on, man.
That’s bullshit. I do not also yet have the charging documents or prosecutor’s statement, but I have to rely on our pals at Wood TV. This just came known to me last night.
Court documents say that the audit of Byrd’s finances during the conservatorship revealed questionable transactions totaling $123,290.17. But they found $420,000. So what’s the difference? I’ll tell you. Because that’s the amount they could track from 2020 to 2023 when their investigation ended.
Yeah. Everything else is statute of limitations. Oh, you know what I’m saying? So how’s this the favorable treatment? How’s this going to work out? Seems to me she’ll get convicted of a felony.
She’ll plead to that. She’ll do no jail time. And before this case is over, restitution will be made.
So with whose money? Because there’s another $300,000 missing plus her insurance settlement. You see what I’m saying? Is this justice? That’s a great question. Well, it’s not health care.
That’s for sure. Because it gets paid for. Is that what you’re saying? Yeah.
Everybody’s looking at this from a political standpoint. But don’t you think there’s health care workers watching this? Don’t you think there’s families that are watching this, seeing this? Some of it, it’s resonating. This is the message that they get.
This is how they get to look at it. Yeah. This is what happens.
She can skip her preliminary examination. You can skip those. I’m talking to Rose’s family.
And they wanted to be there on the 17th because they want to look her in the eye. And they don’t get to do that. They’re the ones that hit me to this.
What’s going on? I go, I don’t know what’s going on. Right. I think there’s a lot of people that wanted to be there on the 17th.
Well, if she cops some kind of plea, though, doesn’t that have to be approved by the victim’s family? I mean, in general, they’re supposed to take into account the victim’s families, right? I don’t know. In this kind of case, it would seem. Yeah.
Well, it would only be right. But so many things in this case haven’t been. But they’re not even notified of anything.
Nobody’s notified. This is skullduggery. So two counts of embezzlement, felony embezzlement, that’s supposed to 15 and another five.
And then the third count, false pretenses, is another five. The false pretenses is here, according to Wood TV. The court documents say.
That’s the $30,000 that. The Rose’s aid. Yeah, I noticed.
Okay. This is the part that’s important. The court document also lays out allegations that Kornak and properly billed state farm insurance from which bird received money through an accident settlement.
As I told you. It says a state farm agent reported Kornak was billing her conservative fees at her attorney rate and that she built in-home care at a professional rate when Kornak’s daughter was simply filling in to help bird and should have been paid at a family rate. The document also says Kornak used the assisted living facilities tax ID number while billing her daughter’s hours, even though she didn’t work there and didn’t have permission to do so.
Okay. Why is that? But the embezzlement is worse, right? Using the old lady’s identity to steal from the insurance company is another thing. It’s lesser, but it matters because that’s what Joe brought to the attorney general through me all those years ago.
And then, I think Nestle’s a coward, total, total, despicable, criminal. I didn’t get a statement, but it goes on to say a statement released to news eight last week. Nestle’s office acknowledged it did open an investigation into Kornak and closed it without results.
The statement says that the investigation was into an insurance fraud allegation and that it was closed in part to lack of cooperation from the complainant, a lack of belief by the insurance company that it was defrauded and lack of cooperation. So what are we hearing here? We’re hearing the attorney general, the chief law enforcement agency in the state of Michigan couldn’t put, the complaint was different. It was a financial complaint.
It was exactly the complaint that Kent County prosecutor now charged with false pretenses. So what I’m saying is shut the fuck up, Nestle. This is the exact same case.
Somehow some Backwater County prosecutor can put it together, but you couldn’t. And the reason you couldn’t is because you didn’t want to, because we have all the documents. It was a complete coverup.
It was obstruction of justice and you directed it. So I want to know Speaker Matt Hall, where are we at with the contempt charges for Nestle? Won’t show up, won’t answer questions. Where are the impeachment charges? Dude, let me go like this.
Okay. Joe, what was your last day of work? August 1st, 2022 at Heather Hills. Like you’re supposed to be there one more month.
You, they asked you to stay out for a year, two more months. And they asked you to walk. And before you walked, what did you do? I submitted a report through the attorney general’s portal, elder abuse portal, elder abuse portal.
So you, you went into this brand new portal of hers. She went on TV three days earlier. It’s open.
And she went on there July 27th, my birthday. It was a great birthday present. My brother’s birthday too.
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, great birthday present.
And yeah, I reported it. Um, August 1st, 2022, three o’clock. And then you said goodbye, Heather Hills.
Okay. And did they ever contact you? No. So you would be a complainant, right? The main complainant.
That portal was designed for administrators and directors. Cause Nestle was banning about like, you would know better than anybody. Cause you have the proximity to the people, right? Right.
All right. Well, let’s two weeks, two weeks after your story hit the air, you filed it. No, two weeks.
She, after your story hit the air, she opened this portal. I didn’t know that. Yes.
Okay. I pulled it up because it’s also in the documents. Let’s see here.
This was, this was an insurance case. She said, even though somebody has been Cornex been charged with false pretenses, I have it here. Department of attorney general, healthcare, healthcare fraud complaint form.
You send it. August 1st. Here.
It says the day it was open was August 15th. Two freaking weeks later. It says right here.
Complaint class, patient abuse type financial. Complaintants information. Joe LeBlanc administrator suspect in the case, Tracy Kornak power of attorney, financial abuse, financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult.
That’s what you reported. Said her bills weren’t being paid. Even though state fire, I’m supposed to be paying them.
They sent them to Cornex. Right? So this isn’t an insurance complaint. This is an elder abuse complaint.
Right? You know, better than I, this is your industry. I mean, it’s, it’s all of it. You can’t find it.
You can’t, it’s not there. I gave you everything. I handed in everything.
And to say, I’m not what? Cooperate. I’m uncooperative. Right? Right.
Well, how could you be uncooperative when they never contacted you? Look, here’s, here’s a followup in these documents. I’d be uncooperative if I filed the complaint. Well, you, you refuse to speak to him.
You refuse to speak to my guest. Great. I wasn’t there.
They never got ahold of you now. Watch here. What’s the date on this thing? Two weeks after it’s open first open.
So a month later, it gets to the attorney general’s investigator. To which she writes the plot thickens on the cornet complaint. Drew making from a healthcare fraud division called me today.
to tell me they received an online complaint on the new portal that nursing facilities can use to report neglect and abuse. That complaint was filed by Joe LeBlanc, alleging financial exploitation, $20,000 against Tracy Cornack’s ward, Roseburg. I called the general counsel for the village of Heather Hills, Richard Solano.
The call went to voicemail and the mailbox was full. They said, they called their woman and said they had no clue about the online complaint. She explained that LeBlanc resigned last June, 2021, given a year’s notice as his last day with the facility.
And the last day with this facility was August 1st, 2022. So they knew you didn’t work there. They knew you didn’t work there.
Then why is it two days later, the fraud division sends an official letter to you addressed at Heather Hills saying we found nothing to your complaint. Wow. Without even talking to him, it was so silent that I went on Tucker Carlson and you should see him freaking out in his internal memos.
Once I go on Tucker Carlson and um, I go to do a piece. I go to see Joe in Grand Rapids and remind me to tell people about the raw footage. I’m interviewing Joe in his driveway and it gives me, or how did I get her number? I had her number.
I had some documents and I called the investigator, put it on speakerphone because they hadn’t contacted him. They hadn’t gotten the files from him that showed all this quite plainly taken to. They asked him to cash a check for 30 grand and take 10% for himself.
That’s what Cornette did as she’s trying to catch him up in embezzlement. Imagine if he cashed a $30,000 check pocketed three grand gave all the rest would be on him. And what do you think the accountant saying? Yeah, she didn’t give a fuck.
But the investigator might as well tell her name. Lori Bates never even bothered to get them. So I said, this is very strange for a reporter.
You don’t do this with investigators, government officials. Give them, give them your documents. You know what I mean? Normally you’re like, no man, that’s, that’s privileged.
You know, you’re going to have to subpoena that. I’m not giving it. I gave him to her cause I knew she didn’t have them.
And then they wrote in there. The plot thickens up. LaDuff sent him.
I, I don’t want to talk to him anymore because he was I, I needed to get permission from my superiors on speaker. I sent him in Joe LeBlanc’s driveway. You want to talk to him? No, right? No, no, no, no.
It just said, just send the files. That’s insulting. That’s a cover up by incompetence or whatever.
It never even would have happened if I didn’t send the documents. It’s ignorable.
But Mark, you asked me, did I expect this? That I did. The cover up? The cover up, you did. Oh yeah, absolutely.
Because of who she was or just how they treat elders? The connections, I mean, I watched COVID for two years. I mean, I saw, we won’t get into that. But yeah, it was the same thing.
To protect political allies, like no investigations. So it’s the same playbook. I don’t know, would you, I got up this morning, because you can see the pattern here now.
Yeah. Secret dealings with the courthouse. Obviously, the prosecutor had to agree with it.
They were there. You know what I’m saying? So it goes away and Cornak quite likely will, even though being gotten caught, will make money. There’s 300,000 that they found.
But you said that there’s a financial fiduciary looking into that money. It’s not that easy to cover up money and where it goes. It really isn’t.
I mean, a forensic accountant can uncover that kind of stuff. I mean, maybe I’m being Pollyannish and hopeful that it does get uncovered. We’re going to have to watch because again, statute of limitations.
I don’t know how long this goes. And we’ll see who’s being cooperative and who’s not. I thought the statute of limitations went farther for like felonious extortion of a vulnerable individual.
With hope. That’s what I thought I knew. I don’t know anything.
I just woke up this morning thinking to myself, would I have invested my life’s essence in this again if I knew this? Yeah. I don’t know. Would you, Joe? It’s the right thing.
Yeah, I would have to. It’s the right thing. Nobody wants to do the right thing.
That’s why there’s corruption everywhere. Joe, have you ever thought of maybe like, I mean, hindsight 2020 of reporting it elsewhere? No. No.
Well, I shouldn’t say that. Instead of the portal. Oh, in terms of.
Yeah. Could you have reported it elsewhere or other? I mean, it makes sense that you would report it to the attorney general. She has a portal.
She’s the top cop in the state. It’s supposed to go directly. That it’s supposed to go to Adult Protective Services once it hits that portal.
Yeah, but it never did. So that’s look, media. Let’s be friends again.
All right. Just be honest and don’t take that bullshit. Lying ass stain and Nestle’s spin on this thing.
The very same crime that you looked into has been charged. Also, Joe, specifically on your portal that you did jumping jacks over alleged financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult. It’s exactly it’s at that point.
It’s not a financial crime. It’s a crime against a human. So who has to complain? There’s your complaint.
You don’t see that you’re a fucking fraud. Hey, Flint, I’ll never forget what you did to you. This is when we first started hitting heads.
I’m like. Oh, I’ll just say that for next week. Oh, man.
Oh, man. Remember that $3,147.90? I finally got the documents. It’s all fucking weird.
It’s shocking what’s in there. Not for the reason you’re thinking. It’s shocking.
The cover up continues. So let’s let’s review. Yeah, I want to get back to his question.
Oh, go ahead. Yeah. No, you asked me, could you have reported it anyplace else? Yeah.
You don’t typically report to the attorney general, but she opened up that portal. But well, then I do you report to the for the portal? Normally, you would go to Adult Protective Services. You would go.
But you see what’s happening in Adult Protective Services. You’ve got the attorney general’s office jumping in on this thing. And so as a health care worker, I do want changes.
But if you want to know where the problem is, there it is. Now, I did my job. Charlie did his job.
Where’s the issue? Let’s remember something. Adult Protective Services comes in after the AG closed the case and never calls Adult Protective Services. Immediately, two weeks later, this happens.
They go round and around for two years. Right. Yeah.
Two years watching this, chronicling it. Nothing. As I told you in the monologue, the social worker went to the attorney general’s office, goes, look, look, this is bad.
At least let’s go to probate and get Kornak out of her life. Yeah. Right.
Then we’ll worry about the very least. Yeah. And what did the attorney general’s assistant attorney general say? She reported that because of the sensitivity of the case and the connection that Ms. Kornak has with government officials and the mystery surrounding the last people to blow the whistle on Ms. Kornak, that it was best to wait, that she didn’t feel comfortable.
So. They what? OK. Kent County shuts their case off in 23, 20, late 20.
No, no. Attorney general closes it. Then in 2023, for two years, they watch in real time while it goes on.
When six months earlier, Joe, I already told you what’s going on. And six weeks after this was written in the law, Roseburg dies. I just I can’t get over the treatment that Kornak, you know, because she was mad that she’s being investigated, which I think you just brought up a really good point.
I want it to go. I want to really focus on the fact that if Adult Protective Services would have removed her as conservator, a lot of that stuff probably wouldn’t have happened. Right.
Because that was after that case. So Roseburg suffers this indignity of not having the correct temperature in a room or living in the dark, not getting Christmas cards, not getting the phone right. She couldn’t talk to family members.
Cell phone went missing. It’s not. I mean, it’s a process, but it’s not that hard to remove somebody as a conservator, especially with allegations hanging over their head of stealing money.
And don’t because that’s the one sole thing a conservative supposed to do is watch the money, not necessarily. You’re not the caregiver, I guess, would be the physical caregiver. Right.
You’re just supposed to be the fiduciary of the person’s money. Joe’s right. And hey, I suspect financial abuse because Rose’s rent is twenty thousand dollars in the arrearage and there’s talk about evicting her.
Oh, my God. Joe being the director’s like, we’re not evicting her. No, no, not her fault.
Heather Hills is for profit. But I mean, I’ll go straight to hell if I’m evicting some 83 year old lady, 86 year old lady like that’s just not going to happen. You try to make things work.
But when you see what’s going on behind the scenes and I’m like being even put in that position during covid. Yeah, during covid. Oh, let’s go back to something here, because because I don’t know why is it possible that Kordak’s daughter gets charged because the bank accounts filling up and there’s no record, at least in some billing periods.
I don’t have them all during of her being there. The electronic sign in because you were telling me the other day during covid, you guys put a whole system in because it would be illegal not to be documented who’s going in and out of there. Oh, wow.
Yeah. You remember the restrictions you had to sign up and show driver’s license to go to a restaurant. That’s true.
I forgot about that. Yes. So none of this adds up.
Do those logs exist? Yeah, I have them. Is anybody going to do something about that for her daughter? They just got charged. OK.
This is exactly what Nestle had. Nestle meddled in, turned over and Whitmer. By the way, folks, you laughed at me when I did it on Twitter.
Oh, Madam Governor, I still haven’t heard from you. You know, I don’t. What do you call it when you poke somebody, when you at them? Oh, yeah.
What is that? Tag them or tag them. Yeah. Poke, poke, tag.
Right. What do you expect? I said, you’re going to see. Yeah.
I’m leaving you all a record. Dozen calls. Right.
Man, a judgeship. You were holding a judgeship. They were going to have this woman sit in judgment of us.
Filed. Well, I guess the good thing is that that never and never came to be right. So it’s a small thing that she lost.
Nestle needs to pay. Yeah. Well, Nestle does, too.
Yeah. You know, she’s term limited. And frankly, Charlie, I don’t care if it’s incompetence or if it’s done on purpose.
Right. Incompetence isn’t always the best defense from a law, especially when there is negligence involved. Well, I don’t even know how you can make incompetence an issue at this point.
Well, she isn’t. But if you want to throw in stupid, I mean, I’m not going to stop you. How do you argue incompetence? I would call it willing incompetence.
I’d call it obstruction of justice. Well, if you want a legal term. Which in health care, that’s neglect.
Yeah. That’s abandonment. You know, I’m getting serious shit for that.
Nestle is a complete fraud. Again, like I’m sure you saved them. I saved them.
We’ve even put them on this program. There’s no need to pull them up. All the stupid commercials, all the dumb town halls that Nestle held, right? All the campaign commercials.
It’s a lie. Yeah. Speeches to conventions.
Oh, we’ll do that for next week. She refused. Nestle took a lot of money from the nursing home industry, refused to open an investigation as to what they did or did not do during COVID.
She even spoke at their annual convention. Keynote speaker. Bring it to you next week.
It is, it’s, it’s. Okay. The next thing on the list.
Well, I want, it’s my show. No, go ahead. I’m just kidding, man.
You know, the one thing, because I want to end things on a high note, like I really do. The one thing I am seeing, and I’ve seen over the last three and a half years though, is I’ve told my story and talk to people is it’s pulling people together. You know, when I watched that oversight and they’re talking about things and, you know, as a Democrat, good, it’s like, you know, how do we fix this? I’m like, good for you.
Let’s work on this. You know, people are recognizing this, this jumps across every party line. And when you recognize the problem, you start seeing people pulling together.
And that’s nice. I don’t know. I’m a little more cynical than you.
Well, I mean, somebody’s got to be positive. They talk and there’s no contempt hearing. They talk, there’s no impeachment charges.
They talk, nothing gets done with probate. They talk and a probate judge, I believe her father, who’s an attorney, his partner, and somebody that owns a guardian company, they have a thousand, this company, this one guy has a thousand rose birds and the FBI has to come in. We know probate hears them.
They come in and ring them all up. And you know, we get in that case a mugshot. So I’m seeing how this is all getting manipulated.
It ain’t going to happen. Yeah. But I’m not talking about those people.
Those are the people that are all pissed at me. All those people in the media, the politicians, bureaucrats, they’re all pissed at me, but it’s the families, it’s the people, it’s the nurses, the administrators, the caregivers, they understand what’s going on. That’s why you had those people there that were like, they knew who you were there.
They’re there asking you about cases, showing paperwork and all of that. And like, yeah, they have advocates group. There’s a lot of people that are following this, but those people, God bless them.
The reason they show up is because they can’t get anything done 10 years later. Right. And they’re looking at us like we have a magic wand and we can do something and we can, except shine a light.
Yeah. And everybody wants a light shine on their own rose. And I wish I could, but I’m watching it.
And they were all planning a bus trip. It’s on the talk boards and everything online. They all were going to this arraignment and this arraignment was manipulated.
So what do you think is going to happen? That’s why we’re doing this show. Can’t let it die. Not now that I know what I know.
Right. No, there’s a whole group of people that have had these personal experiences and, you know, people have thought they were crazy. People thought you were crazy.
Oh, yeah. Um, but it’s, it’s like family members, professional people, attorneys, his Catholic groupies with like, I don’t know, Joe, you know, but you saw it through. Now they, now they call I’m, I’m getting, I’m getting messages from people in a similar job position that he had going to God bless him.
He’s right out long. I suspected stuff and I’m like, and cool, I guess. And what? But no, you’re right.
You know, you got your reputation back, but now what? Well, that’s the way I look at it is now it’s out there. Now it’s out there and it’s up to us. What are we going to do about it? Now, you know, so what do we do about it? Okay.
And that’s all that is, is a question because now the media will acknowledge it and they’ll be on their Sunday talk shows and it instantly twists into what this could mean for the midterm elections. Will it be an issue? I’m like some, y’all sat and watched it and they, and I was a lunatic. Yeah.
Why are you taking shit for this? I came to you. I asked you for help. I take, I took shit for all these years.
I know now, um, I need to explain there by what’s going on with the Detroit board of police commissioners. This is, this is, but, uh, let’s, uh, let’s first, um, remind you that, uh, the insurance company has an adjuster. So I want you to write this number down, Joe, for your parents.
Okay. The worst day of your life. Cause you know, they live in the country.
Remember the, the weather that came through and pipes were exploding and houses were catching on fire up there. Yeah. All that.
So the insurance company sends an adjuster and he gives you a number and you say, why don’t you have an adjuster to work it out with the insurance company’s adjuster? Because the insurance company’s adjuster is there to save the company money. That’s what public adjusters Midwest is all about. They’re like your insurance lawyer.
So this is mainly for catastrophic fire and water damage, right? To commercial buildings or your residence or your cottage. Before you call the insurance company, call public adjusters, Midwest Pam at eight, five, five, nine, seven, five 2020 call Pam first.com. They’ll do all the work and get you more money because I, I think I’m kind of a man’s man. When I had damage from a storm, here you go.
Here’s your check. And I’m like, Oh, I have plaster. You know what I mean? They’re going to skim drywall mud on there.
And I was like, Oh fuck. So their card is in my insurance papers. And if you’re not sure about your coverage, isn’t it? No bullshit new special call them and they’ll check your insurance papers for you.
They’re not an insurance company. They just know what the insurance company’s up to. That is eight by five, nine, seven, five, 2020.
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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. Now, I’m all for second chances, Joe, but six? Remember, these commissioners sit in judgment of the people who put them behind bars, the police.
I mean, you wouldn’t allow a troop of pedophiles to work at a children’s circus, would you? The vice chair of the board, Daryl Woods, spent 29 years in the state pen for first degree murder. Governor Rick Snyder granted him clemency in 2019 and Woods was appointed to the board in 2023 by then mayor Mike Duggan. Mike Duggan, chicken shit.
Won’t put me on his press list. That dirt thing’s getting big, but that’s for another day. The second commissioner, lavish T. Williams, the reason I say lavish T. Williams is because T is really his name.
It’s his government name. It’s Terrence William. He just likes being called lavish.
He’s got 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. I mean, lavish really likes tearing up cars.
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, Darius Morris, finds himself in the news for all the wrong reasons.
He was 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 them. He just walked up on it. He didn’t like the way the cop was doing it.
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. Now, Morris’s rap sheet doesn’t end there.
He did time in 2009 for pleading guilty to forgery and impersonating a notary public. In 2021, Morris was caught playing dress-up again. That time, he was pulled over by the Detroit police officers who discovered Morris carrying a firearm and wearing a fake police chaplain’s badge again.
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. So 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 of Detroit 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 butthurt. 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 a call. He got a hold of the story. He rang up Morris good, complete with an interrogation of Morris and an airing of all of his prior body cam footage.
Just happened to get it all. Just like that. Just happened to get it.
Then George Hunter of the Detroit News made inquiries to the Wayne County prosecutor wondering why Morris’s gun charges were never reinstated. And so 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 and then Commissioner Morris abruptly unresigned 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. Gonna show him to you.
It’s weird. Morris wasn’t wearing his nice new golden badge. Detroit Police Commissioner Darius Morris is in the news for all the wrong reasons.
Turns out he not only likes to impersonate a cop, he’s even threatened to shoot one. Say it again. Say it again.
You would have shot me. He called me to explain his side of things. Then he ghosted me.
I found him anyway near the elevator shaft. See if I get this straight. About 2010, you did a bid state bid for mortgage fraud, mortgage fraud and impersonating a public official.
And then five years ago, you were charged with felony gun possession while wearing a fake badge around your neck. That correct? I had a chaplain’s badge. Yeah, OK.
Not a real one. Wasn’t given to you by the police. It wasn’t given to me by the police department.
OK, then that charge got dropped because the cop didn’t show up to court. Yes. OK, then in 2023, you were convicted of.
I was convicted of assault, resisting obstructing the police officer from Warren Police Department. So you threatened to shoot a Warren police officer while wearing the fake badge. It was about wearing the chaplain’s badge.
OK, now you got a real badge. Yes, I have a board of police commissioners. Oh, you have it on? No, I don’t have it.
OK, OK, so now that you have a real badge, you got upset. You got butthurt when you went to a precinct and a real cop made you go to the metal detector. Then you put his face and name online, right? That’s not correct.
That’s not what happened. When I went to the precinct, I had been there prior to on multiple occasions. I hadn’t since I have been elected.
I had not been subject to the search until after I made a complaint against a police officer out of that precinct. What do you say in here? I’m lost. I made a complaint against an officer.
And then went on Facebook. Yes, I did. Now, don’t you think if you like dressing up, wouldn’t it be safer to get a job as a shopping mall Santa Claus? It probably would.
Probably would. Thanks, Commissioner. That’s extreme evangelism.
The chaplain with a gun. Let’s look at this dope. He did a couple of years in prison for mortgage fraud and posing as a notary public, right? Did a couple of years.
He did a couple of years. A woman got ahold of me on Facebook, messaged me. I rarely check him, so don’t.
But it just happened to come across. And she’s like one of the people you’re talking about. We got to set things straight, get things fixed.
So I looked her up. She was convicted of embezzling. She was convicted by Nestle, no less, of embezzling from not one, but 10 adults.
Right? 10 adults for a total amount of $21,000. $21,000. So she was charged with things like theft of a vulnerable adult less than $200.
Like multiple. Got convicted and was sentenced to three and a half to seven years in prison. I looked up the woman’s appeal.
She lost the appeal. So that’s what somebody got for $20,000. We’re talking $420,000.
Where is it? This dope’s due in time. Justice isn’t blind. It’s never equal either.
But we’re going to do what we can, right, Joe? It’s not over. Dana, I’m coming. Oh, and, uh, Gretchen.
It ain’t looking good. Wait till next week. See you next week.
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