We are at the halfway point of the year. As a matter of housekeeping, dear reader, here are updates on some exclusive stories that have appeared in this space in 2025.
Grandma Killer Demands Dollars
While former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo finds himself in the crosshairs of a criminal investigation for lying to Congress over his nursing home response, Gretchen Whitmer, Michigan’s dingbat-in-chief, who copied Cuomo’s nursing home co-mingling of the healthy and infected, appears to be skating off scot-free.
But not so fast. What did Whitmer tell the DOJ back in 2020 when federal investigators demanded Michigan’s nursing home data?
No one seems to know.
Under Michigan’s Freedom of Information Act, we asked for that material as well as all conversations between her office and that of Attorney General Dana Nessel.
The response? It will cost $3,147.80 to process.
I say we call their bluff and start a GoFundMe page (coming soon).
Dum Dum Dana’s Caught a Case
The trial of One Finger Freddy, the serial signature forger whose sloppy work in 2022 took out five Republican gubernatorial candidates, has been dragging on for years. One wonders if this is just another case of Dana Nessel’s serial incompetence or something more nefarious?
Turns out One Finger Freddy’s political dirty deeds trace back to Nessel’s wife, Alanna Maguire.
Maguire was the co-chairperson of a gay rights ballot initiative in 2020 that hired Freddy to gather signatures. Like the Republican candidates, the ballot initiative went down in flames after he delivered nearly 200,000 bogus signatures.
The way Maguire’s campaign paid Freddy way so audacious that a criminal complaint was sent to… Dana Nessel!
Even though Nessel has brought criminal charges against her political enemies for the very same charges, the criminal referral against her wife seems to have had died in the darkness.
Until our report, that is. Now, the Michigan House Oversight Committee has exhumed the case.
SOS! Save Our State
Jocelyn Benson thumbed her nose at federal law when she issued Real IDs. On many occasions, her office never checked or never recorded official documents confirming a person’s residency, social security number, or citizenship as required by law. We have confirmed that the Transportation Security Administration has indeed opened an investigation.
Shri Shoots a Grosse Pointe Blank
Poor Shri Thanedar. Not only does the diminutive Detroit Democrat not know which communities he represents, his Democratic colleagues in Congress recently told Axios that his impeachment attempt of Donald J. Trump “is the dumbest f—ing thing” and “a waste of f—king time.”
Like his lab-test beagles, Thanedar’s impeachment stunt has been stuffed in a cage to die.
Samson Defeats Goliath
Armed with the sling of social media (and a stone provided by Michigan Enjoyer) Charles E. Brooks Jr., the unofficial Mayor of Detroit’s East Side, has delivered a political knockout to the mayor of Detroit’s downtown, Mike Duggan.
Bombarded by public outrage, Duggan and his bureaucracy were forced to return the title to Brooks’ property, know as “The Castle,” which it had confiscated on the grounds of blight.
Unsatisfied, Brooks called for a criminal investigation into the “devilish” Detroit Land Bank Authority on financial and environmental grounds. Every candidate at the Detroit Mayor’s debate last week promised to do so.
Not one to be caught flatfooted, Duggan is trying to beat it out of town before the city goes broke and is making an independent run for the governor of Michigan.
No More Alleged Terrorists Next Door?
Issam Bazzi was given parole into the U.S. after wading across the Rio Grande in 2021 with his wife and daughter. He was even provided transportation to Dearborn, paid for by American taxpayers.
Problem is, Bazzi came up as a “Category 5” hit on the Terror Watch List, making the Venezuelan the first known suspected terrorist to be wittingly allowed into the country.
Sources say Bazzi has been ordered deported following an Enjoyer investigation. So why is he still here? Because Bazzi—with suspected ties to Hezbollah and Venezuela’s Maduro regime—has filed an appeal based on “humanitarian grounds.”
Think of it: Due process. Humanitarian considerations. Right to parole.
Ain’t America grand?
Charlie LeDuff is a reporter educated in public schools. Follow him on X @Charlieleduff.
