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Watching The Watchmen

Meanwhile, Gregory Townsend, one of the lead prosecutors handling the cases against eight of the defendants in Michigan state court, was reassigned in May pending an attorney general audit into whether he had withheld evidence about buzzfeednews.com/article/kenben…

deals cut with informants during a murder and arson trial in Oakland County in 2000. And on Sunday, in a matter apparently unrelated to the alleged kidnapping conspiracy, one of the lead FBI agents in the case, Richard J. Trask, was charged in state court in Kalamazoo with

assault with intent to do great bodily harm. According to court records, Caserta and his cohorts held field training exercises and plotted the kidnapping in the basement of a vacuum shop near Grand Rapids. The plot was foiled as undercover agents and an informant were

embedded in the group, whose members were ultimately arrested in a setup by the FBI. At least seven FBI field offices, along with the operational divisions at the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, D.C., were reportedly involved in coordinating the arrests.

At least seven FBI field offices, along with the operational divisions at the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, D.C., were reportedly involved in coordinating the arrests.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel charged seven other men (Pete Musico, Joseph Morrison,

Shawn Fix, Eric Molitor, Michael Null, William Null, and Paul Bellar) with state crimes, including providing material support for terrorist acts, firearm crimes, and gang membership Nessel is the second openly lesbian person elected attorney general of a state in the

United States (after Maura Healey of Massachusetts) as well as the first openly LGBTQ person elected to statewide office in Michigan. She is also the first Jewish person to be elected Attorney General of Michigan.

In 2005, Nessel opened her own legal firm, Nessel and Kessel Law

In 2018, Michigan passed legislation approved under former Governor Rick Snyder codifying an agreement between the state and Enbridge Energy to replace the Enbridge Line 5, sitting on the lakebed underneath the Straits of Mackinac with a tunnel below the bedrock.

Despite a judge's ruling upholding the law in March 2019,[28] Nessel issued an opinion that month stating the law was unconstitutional “because its provisions go beyond the scope of what was disclosed in its title.”.[29] After Enbridge filed a lawsuit, a Michigan Court of Claims

judge ruled in favor of Enbridge and rejected Nessel's reasoning, stating, "the argument advanced by defendants misses the mark."The attorneys general of Minnesota, Wisconsin and California have filed friend-of-the-court briefs in support of Nessel's lawsuit.[

In January 2020, Nessel filed suit against seventeen companies, including 3M and DuPon