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Trump renews attack on Michigan Senate ahead of sanction hearing
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Lansing Former President Donald Trump on Saturday attacked the Michigan Senate and repeated unproven claims about fraud in Detroit s November 2020 election, two days ahead of a key court hearing.
Trump lost Michigan to Democrat Joe Biden by 154,000 votes or 3 percentage points. The GOP senators review, a series of court rulings, bipartisan boards of canvassers and dozens of audits have reinforced the outcome. The only reason Detroit, Michigan, is not yet under investigation is because the Republicans in the state Senate are a bunch of weak RINOs that are afraid to act, Trump said in the statement.
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A 39-year-old Metro Detroit man has been charged in Detroit U.S. District Court with stealing about $300,000 in unemployment benefits by fraudulently filing in the names of inmates in the state prison system.
Terrell Dwayne Mason worked with a state employee since the spring of 2020 to file more than 40 fraudulent Pandemic Unemployment Assistance claims those filed by self-employed or gig workers in the name of inmates or recent parolees, according to a complaint in federal court records.
Mason was charged Wednesday with mail and wire fraud, money laundering and aggravated identity theft.
In 2011, Mason was arrested and sentenced for organizing a scheme that provide fake IDs and fake credit cards to groups sent around the country to buy electronics and ship them back to Michigan. He was sentenced to probation but has been arrested at various points over the last several years for violations.
Lansing An attorney representing six Michigan Republicans who sought to overturn the state s election says claims made in the effort by conservative lawyer Sidney Powell were opinion in the eyes of the law.
Attorney Stefanie Lambert Junttila laid out that argument in a filing Friday night as a group of Republican lawyers faces a push for sanctions in Michigan s Eastern District federal court. Indeed, based on case law, Ms. Powell s statements are not legally considered fact, Junttila wrote. Rather, by placing her statements in the broad and specific context of political debate, there are legally considered opinion.
Earlier this month,Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel asked a federal judge to consider Powell s response to a $1.3 billion defamation suit from Dominion Voting Systems in deciding whether to sanction her for the lawsuit that challenged Michigan s election results.
Nessel asks judge to consider Powell s stunning admissions in deciding sanctions detroitnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from detroitnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.