Overview
- Aric Nesbitt asked the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s role in a $20 million grant scandal in a letter to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.
- He said the state investigation cannot be impartial because Attorney General Dana Nessel is personally close to Whitmer.
- The Attorney General’s office said there is no conflict and that the work will follow the evidence, not politics.
- State prosecutors earlier filed felony charges against Fay Beydoun over the grant, which went to her firm Global Link International while she sat on the MEDC executive committee.
- As charges were announced, prosecutors noted MEDC chief Quentin Messer as a possible target, and Democrats pointed out the grant was sponsored by former GOP House Speaker Jason Wentworth.