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Michigan State Police: Not investigating $450,000 Oakland County contract

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Michigan State Police won’t examine a $450,000 Oakland County expertise contract signed with a county worker.

A criticism filed with the county sheriff’s workplace by Commissioner Mike Spisz final month was referred to MSP.

On Wednesday, MSP spokesman Lt. Mike Shaw advised The Oakland Press that state police had acquired and reviewed the sheriff’s investigation report however discovered that “no legal legislation violations had been contained within the report and no investigation had been opened by MSP.”

The Zaydlogix contract offered 5 technical workers for the courts and the province’s Regulation Enforcement Administration Info Programs (CLEMIS).

CLEMIS was reworked into an impartial authority earlier this 12 months. County officers acquired an nameless e mail in July that Zaydlogix was owned by a county worker. It’s in opposition to county coverage and state legislation for a authorities worker to have an out of doors contract with their authorities employer. County officers carried out an inner investigation and canceled the contract lower than per week after receiving the tipster’s e mail.

A county-funded outdoors investigation by the legislation agency Miller Canfield led to disciplinary motion for 4 workers. CLEMIS supervisor EJ Widun and Zaydlogix founder Shukur Mohammad, a provincial IT worker since 1999, had been suspended with out pay for 4 weeks and resigned in November.

Zaydlogix has not acquired any funds. Firm workers who had been already engaged on CLEMIS had been transferred to different technical staffing companies with provincial contracts.

Spisz, a Republican from Oxford, advised The Oakland Press that he was “overly pissed off” that there can be no police investigation, including that state police investigators didn’t have all the data they wanted as a result of they solely acquired a abstract of the Miller Canfield report.

Spisz mentioned an MSP official advised him Thursday that investigators “thought there was nothing.”

He mentioned he’s particularly pissed off that nobody outdoors the federal government has seen the complete Miller Canfield report, “not even the police.”

County spokesman Invoice Mullan mentioned the federal government was not conscious of MSP’s resolution however had no additional clarification.

Spisz mentioned his requests to learn the complete Miller Canfield report had been denied.

“I am all for a redacted report,” Spisz mentioned. “The abstract (of the Miller Canfield report) raises extra questions as a result of it says state legal guidelines had been violated.”

The general public, he mentioned, “wants to know what actually occurred.”

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