I have always had the greatest respect for law enforcement, in fact before I joined the Marine Corps I had taken classes in criminal justice for almost a year because I wanted to be a police officer myself. Maybe it's the Libra in me, I don't know, but I have always craved justice, and I have fought for it on behalf of others all of my life.
Lady Justice is always depicted blindfolded, with scales in her hands, meaning that she is blind to bias, so that every citizen in the United States is treated equally under the law, no matter who they are or what position they may hold.
But over the last 34 years during my career as a journalist I have seen justice denied the citizens of these United States many times. Twice during those three decades I have been able to takedown powerful people who abused the trust placed in them, violating the rights of innocent people.
In 1986 an assistant state attorney in Martin County Florida hid exculpatory evidence that would have proven the innocence of a 16-year-old boy accused of attempted rape and attempted murder.
As a result of my reportage, Todd Patrick Neely, who had been facing 20 years in prison, was freed with the apologies of the court. The assistant state attorney who prosecuted him was fired and lost his license to practice law.
More recently, during the second Bundy trial in Las Vegas Nevada, Steven Myhre, the Acting US Attorney for the District of Nevada, was also caught withholding Brady material that would have proven the Bundys were acting lawfully by resisting with force of arms when thugs from the Bureau of Land Management – who had no arrest or law enforcement authority – attacked their family farm, killed their cattle, and destroyed their water supply.
In the case US v. Bundy, et al, as she dismissed the government's case, “with prejudice,” US District Judge Gloria Navarro cited, “flagrant prosecutorial misconduct,” as the reason; noting that Prosecutor Myhre, “made several misleading statements to the defendants and the Court,” that, “The government's conduct in this case was indeed outrageous,” that the prosecution showed, “a reckless disregard for the constitutional obligation to seek and provide evidence,” that Mr. Myhre engaged in, “deliberate attempts to mislead and distort the truth,” and that, “the Court finds that the universal sense of justice has been violated.”
Mr. Myhre was subsequently relieved of his duties as the Acting US Attorney for the District of Nevada, and he will never try another case in federal court again. I would have preferred he had been imprisoned, because as a result of the illegal persecution of the Bundys, LaVoy Finicum was murdered by federal agents and troopers for the Oregon State Patrol while he had his hands in the air; but I will take what I can get.
The major cities of this country are currently in flames, because a bad cop murdered an innocent man. The rights of citizens all over this nation are violated every single day by bad cops. They cannot be allowed to exist.
I realize that 99% of all police officers, deputy sheriffs, and federal agents, are good, decent, men and women who take their oath to uphold the law seriously. I will cover the six of all of those men and women, literally and figuratively, until the day I die. By the same token, dirty cops, prosecutors, and judges can expect to be exposed for the oath-breakers and criminals that they are.
As I said, I take no joy in reporting this information; but the citizens Alpena County need to know what has transpired. Over the next few minutes I will present evidence that I have obtained from the Alpena County Sheriff's Department, and the Alpena County Prosecutor's Office, that implicates Alpena County Sheriff Steven Kieliszewski in a federal crime, a felony that carries a penalty of a hefty fine and a 3 year prison sentence in a federal penitentiary.
This all began in 2017 when a man by the name of Peter Fournier took offense to my reports on the Bundy trial that was taking place in Oregon. Fournier is a known violent criminal who has attacked reporters in the past. An heir to the Procter & Gamble fortune, Fournier has nearly unlimited resources, and regularly flies around the country to intimidate, harass, and assault Conservatives who get in his sights.
Fournier flew to Flint from Portland, rented a car, and drove 3 hours to Alpena where he went to Pizza Hut and bought a pizza with the intention of adulterating it and delivering it to me posing as a Pizza Hut driver so he could see the look on my face when I took delivery.
According to MCL 750.436, a person shall not do either of the following:
(a) Willfully mingle a poison or harmful substance with a food, drink, nonprescription medicine, or pharmaceutical product, or willfully place a poison or harmful substance in a spring, well, reservoir, or public water supply, knowing or having reason to know that the food, drink, nonprescription medicine, pharmaceutical product, or water may be ingested or used by a person to his or her injury.
(b) Maliciously inform another person that a poison or harmful substance has been or will be placed in a food, drink, nonprescription medicine, pharmaceutical product, spring, well, reservoir, or public water supply, knowing that the information is false and that it is likely that the information will be disseminated to the public.
A person who violates this law is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 15 years or a fine of not more than $10,000.00, or both.
Alpena County sheriff's deputy Mike Lash was dispatched to my home to take a report on this assault. Mike went to Pizza Hut and obtained security footage of Fournier buying the pizza. A couple of days later I was informed by a friend that Fournier had uploaded footage of the assault to Twitter, which Mike also obtained.
In the text above the Twitter post, Fournier gleefully admitted to adulterating the pizza before delivery.
That is not only a felony violation of Michigan state law, it is also a violation of federal law because Fournier crossed state lines in order to carry out this assault.
About a week later I was given a copy of a four-page report generated by the Alpena County Sheriff's Department that detailed the evidence gathered by Mike Lash. I was told to keep my head on a swivel, but not to worry, because the Sheriff would take care of it.
But Sheriff Kieliszewski did not “take care of it.” Whether out of sheer incompetence, or because he just didn't like me and was hoping that Fournier would come back and finish the job, he did not transmit that report to the Alpena County Prosecutors Office. That is a violation of 18 USC § 4. Misprision of felony, a federal crime that carries a penalty of up to three years in prison.
18 USC § 4 states: Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the United States, conceals and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
The 9th Circuit Court elaborated on what makes up the elements of misprision of felony when deciding the matter of US v Olson in 2017. For instance, in order to establish beyond a reasonable doubt that a person is guilty of this crime the government must be able to prove the following elements of misprision of felony:
1. That the individual alleged to have committed the underlying crime did, in fact, commit the crime.
2. That the individual accused of misprision was fully aware that what he had witnessed was a crime.
3. That the witness accused of misprision failed to tell the authorities what he knew.
4. That the witness accused of misprision took active steps towards concealing the underlying crime.
The Sheriff’s Department generated a report based on facts collected by Deputy Lash, detailing the evidence collected. That satisfies Element 1.
If he did not know that adulterated food products in the state of Michigan was a felony, he is a bad Sheriff and deserves no donut. I’m sure, however, that the Sheriff did know that the assault was a felony, so Element 2 is satisfied.
By failing to notify the Alpena County Prosecutor, who at the time was Judge Ed Black, the Sheriff satisfied the requirements of Element 3.
Not being a lawyer, I’m not sure how Elements 3 and 4 differ under the law, but to my mind – and most lay observers, I would imagine - not transmitting the report to the prosecutor equates to concealing the underlying crime, making Sheriff Steven guilty of violating 18 USC § 4. The State Department and Department of Homeland Security regard misprision as a “crime of moral turpitude,” one for which a resident alien may be deported from the United States.
But let's say that I am totally mistaken, that I can't read plain English, and don't understand the law at all; that the Sheriff’s actions are not a violation of 18 USC § 4 – it’s still wrong.
I know for a fact that some of you watching me right now are laughing at me. You think that it's funny that somebody tried to kill me and the Sheriff did nothing about it. What if my children had eaten that pizza and it became sick, or died? They are innocent. Still think it's funny?
I want you to think for just a moment what you would do if somebody assaulted you, or a member of your family, and the Sheriff let him get away with it because he just doesn't like you. Are you still laughing?
Sheriff Kieliszewski not only put my family in danger by failing to report this crime so that a warrant could be issued for Fournier’s arrest, he endangered the lives of countless others as well. As a result, Fournier is not in a Michigan prison or in a federal penitentiary where he belongs. He is free to continue his crime spree, harassing, intimidating, and assaulting anyone he chooses.
I don't know about you, but I will not vote for a man who dispenses justice based on his own personal biases. The Sheriff has proven himself unworthy of his office, and he should be ashamed.
We might not have to worry about it though, because this past Wednesday I called The FBI office in Bay City and reported the same facts to them as you have just seen. I was told that an agent come up to Alpena to conduct interviews sometime next week. Come August 4th, Sheriff Kieliszewski may very well be in federal custody.
I'm not going to take any chances. Until the Sheriff has been arrested I will continue to support Terry King with my whole heart, because I know for a fact that he DOES care about the people under his charge. When my mother and wife died within a few months of each other in 2015, one of the very few people outside of my family to ask if I was OK was Terry King.
On the next episode of The Truth Is Viral, I will be presenting the video testimonies of several people who have had the same experience of having the Sheriff let them down, only to have Terry King lift them up, literally in one case, when Terry saved the life of a gay man in the Alpena County Jail who had hung himself after the Sheriff repeatedly ignored his pleas for mental health treatment.
In a couple of minutes I am going to open up the phone lines so that you can weigh in on this extremely important subject. Until then, please enjoy a little 4th of July Rock ‘n’ Roll by two of Northern Michigan’s favorite musical acts - Jason Eller and Bobbing for Piranhas.
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