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TexasTowelie

(120,804 posts)
Sun Jul 18, 2021, 01:51 AM Jul 2021

Michigan sheriff enlists private eye to grill clerks in vote fraud probe

LANSING — A Michigan sheriff investigating the 2020 election is using a private investigator to question clerks, an unorthodox arrangement that baffles local officials in a region former President Donald Trump dominated last fall.

Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf, a Republican who plotted to seize voting machines after the November election and was in communication with allies to Trump at the time, is now working with a private investigator named Michael Lynch, a former security official for DTE Energy in Detroit.

Leaf did not answer calls or respond to a text message from Bridge Michigan. The Hastings Banner newspaper reported that the sheriff said Lynch was recommended to him by Stefanie Lambert Junttila, a Detroit-area attorney facing potential sanctions related to the “Kraken” lawsuit that sought to overturn President Joe Biden’s election win.

Lynch and a sheriff’s deputy have visited at least six township clerks, according to Barry County Clerk Pam Palmer, a Republican who criticized what she called a secretive investigation that has frightened local officials.

Read more: https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/michigan-sheriff-enlists-private-eye-grill-clerks-vote-fraud-probe


Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf is one of a handful of self-described "constitutional sheriffs" in Michigan who contend they are the highest level of governmental authority and can defy or disregard laws that they find unconstitutional. (Photo courtesy of Chris duMond)

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Michigan sheriff enlists private eye to grill clerks in vote fraud probe (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jul 2021 OP
Who died and made him emperor? N/t royable Jul 2021 #1
No one-- he's just a "constitutional sheriff". That's a title or position that only exists in... TreasonousBastard Jul 2021 #2
I would not be afraid and would be inclined to tell him and his private dick to FRO... wcmagumba Jul 2021 #3
my thought too. ZonkerHarris Jul 2021 #4
Typical white supremacist fat pig PortTack Jul 2021 #5
Is he wearing a toupee? niyad Jul 2021 #6

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
2. No one-- he's just a "constitutional sheriff". That's a title or position that only exists in...
Sun Jul 18, 2021, 02:04 AM
Jul 2021

the warped minds of some reactionary troglodytes.

wcmagumba

(3,914 posts)
3. I would not be afraid and would be inclined to tell him and his private dick to FRO...
Sun Jul 18, 2021, 02:07 AM
Jul 2021

f**k right off....

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