Michigan’s Director of Elections, Jonathan Brater, is accused of mendacity below oath to a grand jury within the case towards two good and brave election integrity attorneys and a revered patriot and former MI State Consultant.
On August 3, 2023, Democrat Muskegon Prosecutor DJ Hilson introduced prison prices towards Lawyer Stefanie Lambert, then-MI State Rep. Daire Rendon (R), and Lawyer Matthew DePerno, her Republican opponent, within the basic election for MI AG in 2022, for his or her alleged function within the investigation of voting machines, reportedly given to them by clerks to be examined for potential fraud.
Nessel accused them of illegally having access to 5 tabulators throughout three Michigan counties, reportedly used within the state’s 2020 election.
One of many tabulators that was examined was reportedly given to Lambert and DePerno by the Barry County clerk in 2021. The vote tabulator was shared with them so it might bear a forensic examination by a professional group of consultants.
In response to a state police report reviewed by Reuters, the township clerk instructed state police she gave the tabulator to an outdoor investigator working with Sheriff Dar Leaf’s workplace so it may very well be “forensically” examined. The clerk mentioned the sheriff’s workplace had requested her to provide the machine to the investigator.
MI Lawyer Normal Nessel alleges the tabulator was illegally eliminated on March 9, 2021, and brought to a different county, the place it was examined by pc technicians working with Lambert and DePerno.
Michigan’s extremely partisan Democrat Lawyer Normal Dana Nessel reportedly shopped for a particular prosecutor who can be prepared to tackle one other one among her witch hunt circumstances towards a political enemy.
This time, in what might solely occur within the state of Michigan, the MI Democrat AG was searching for somebody to prosecute her political opponent within the upcoming AG race, Republican Lawyer Matthew DePerno.
The Detroit Information first reported in April that Hilson had used a grand jury to weigh prices. As these proceedings performed out largely in secret, Hilson sought a ruling from Oakland County Circuit Decide Phyllis McMillen, a former sixth Circuit Decide appointed by the far-left Democrat Governor Jennifer Granholm, on who might entry voting machines in Michigan.
On August 3, 2022, Bridge MI reported that Particular Prosecutor D.J. Hilson introduced grand jury indictments towards Republican lawyer Matthew DePerno, Lawyer Stefanie Lambert, and former Michigan State Consultant Daire Rendon. Every was charged with a number of felonies, punishable by between 4 and 5 years in jail.
In a press release, the Muskegon prosecutor mentioned, “The charging choice was the results of a radical decision-making course of by an unbiased residents’ grand jury.
This residents’ grand jury rigorously listened to the sworn testimony, analyzed the proof as required by legislation, and returned a choice to indict every of the defendants.”
Lambert and DePerno have argued that as a result of clerks granted them entry to the voting machines, their use of the gear was authorized.
Nevertheless, on July 12, McMillen sided with Hilson’s studying of the legislation, saying it was unlawful for somebody to take possession of a voting tabulator with out authorization from the Secretary of State’s workplace or a court docket order.
Lawyer Dan Hartman’s Movement to Quash, citing “Prosecutorial Misconduct.” In his movement, Hartman reveals beautiful statements that had been a part of a dialogue between AG Nessel’s Assistant Lawyer Normal Danielle Hageman-Clark, AG investigators, and MI SOS Lawyer Erik Grill.
Under is a transcript of the prosecutors that was hid from the defendants, in accordance with Hartman’s movement to quash. In response to DePerno, they had been interviewing the witness, Michael Lynch (the investigator reportedly employed to examine the tabulator), after they requested him to depart the room, however the recorder was nonetheless on.
“They actually say they’re discussion board procuring, they don’t need to choose a jury in Roscommon County, they admit the witness is stuffed with crap, and they should discover a crime, “even when it’s a conspiracy to you already know, commit a authorized act in a authorized method.” They had been instructed to fabricate against the law,” DePerno explains.
Right here is the excerpt of the dialog between AG Nessel’s Asst. AG Danielle Hagaman-Clark, AG investigators, and MI SOS Lawyer Erik Grill:
Ms. Hagaman-Clark: Yeah, one, to me it looks as if and I…you already know, we will do no matter or the way you guys need to do that, however, if we will prosecute anyone in Oakland County versus Roscommon County. Love you guys to dying up there however not a grand jury up there.
A number of voices: (laughter)
Ms. Hagaman-Clark: however I’m not down with attempting to choose no Roscommon Jury. Higher choose an Oakland County Jury. I’m not going that far I actually like Mary BeeBe. I feel she’s an ideal prosecutor. I don’t need to be selecting a jury of her friends up there on this sort of crap.
Whereas, we will, you already know, cost all of them with some form of conspiracy cost it down right here as a result of
down right here is the place, you already know, diddling with the tabulators. I like that method a lot better than attempting to individually choose these guys off’ up in Roscommon.UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKERS: Yeah
Ms. Hagaman-Clark: You recognize, even when it’s conspiracy to, you already know, commit a, a… authorized act in an unlawful method. For you already know or any of these different election fraud issues we had been searching for Daire, in the end it takes place down right here that at the least part of the crime arguably is dedicated in Oakland County. We are able to rope all of them in to make them come down right here to reply for reasonably than up there your guys’ neck of the woods.
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKERS: Yeah
Ms. Hagaman-Clark: I feel we have now a greater shot.
One other Excerpt:
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKERS: that man is superior so far as the data giving however its its completely absurd that he’s strolling into these locations getting these voting machines and he thinks he was doing this and and its authorized. I imply Stefanie just isn’t a police officer so far as I do know… unintelligible
Ms. Hagaman-Clark: God she’s a twit, she’s such a twit.
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKERS: I can’t wait to guide her— I’d have finished it at this level…
And as if that isn’t unhealthy sufficient—there’s extra!
DePerno instructed us, “The AAG, AG investigators and MI SOS Lawyer Eric Grill had been all within the room. And this interview happened whereas the Antrim Co. case was pending, which implies Dana Nessel and Eric Grill (who had been my opposing counsel) began a prison investigation towards me (their opposing counsel), which is prohibited.”
He added, “And so they pulled in my witnesses and made them violate privilege, asking them concerning the Antrim case whereas it was pending. After which argued earlier than the court docket with out even disclosing to the court docket that that they had interviewed my witnesses with out telling me.”
On Sunday night, Lawyer Matt DePerno found exculpatory proof that ought to put an finish to the witch hunt towards him, Stefanie Lambert, and former State Rep. Daire Rendon. He instantly filed a quick to dismiss his case.
From DePerno’s temporary:
Maybe essentially the most damning piece of proof on this case, which was not offered to the grand jury and which was not produced throughout discovery, is a letter dated Could 20, 2021, and written by Jonathan Brater, director of the Michigan Bureau of Elections to the Cheboygan County Clerk, whose County Board wished entry to the tabulators to look at them.
The Could 20, 2021, letter written by MI Director of Elections Jonathan Brater to the county clerk emphatically states:
You’re receiving this letter as a result of the Bureau of Elections has been knowledgeable that the Cheboygan County Board of Commissioners could try to permit an unqualified third social gathering to achieve entry to voting gear in Cheboygan County, purportedly to conduct a “forensic audit.”
The Board has no authority to require you or any municipal clerk to offer exterior entry to voting gear maintained by your places of work, and neither you nor municipal clerks in Cheboygan County ought to present this entry.
The Michigan Election Legislation entrusts clerks with selecting and sustaining their voting programs and doesn’t present any authority for county commissions to take management of this gear.
MCL 168.37a states that “a county clerk, in consulting with every metropolis and township clerk within the county” will ” decide which digital voting system will likely be used within the county[.]” Custody, programming, and overview and testing of election gear is entrusted to certified election officers, not county commissioners.
Right here, Brater affirms it’s the clerk’s prerogative or alternative
If you happen to or municipal clerks select to conduct extra opinions of your voting programs, that’s your prerogative.
In adition to confirming that it’s the clerk’s “prerogative” to conduct any extra opinions to their vote tabulators, Brater tells the clerks: “solely election officers, licensed distributors, or accredited voting system check laboratories ought to be granted entry to voting gear. In case you are concerned about having any kind of bodily overview of your voting system, it is best to contact an EAC-accredited voting programs check laboratory (VSTL).”
The Could 20, 2021, letter WAS NOT PROVIDED to Defendant Lambert or Deperno.
This letter was not supplied by the Folks and was obtained actually on the EVE of trial.
At problem is Brater’s testimony in entrance of a grand jury, by which he testified below oath that the Barry County Clerk had no authority to offer her tabulator to DePerno and Lambert’s licensed group of inspectors, which, is in direct battle with the December 1, 2020, memorandum issued by his boss, SOS Benson, titled “Recounts, Launch of Voting Gear” which acknowledged that safety of voting gear “will likely be launched as soon as all post-election audits are accomplished.”
From the transcript of Jonathan Brater’s testimony below oath in entrance of a grand jury, the place he’s accused of mendacity:
THE WITNESS (Brater):· February 2021 was when that replace was launched.I consider that extra language about the place it mentioned, bear in mind, solely licensed distributors, et cetera, can have entry to that gear, I don’t consider we had beforehand supplied that instruction as a part of the conventional launch of safety, it wasn’t new info however I consider we supplied that particular instruction due to issues on the time that there can be requests to make unauthorized entry to gear.
JUROR:· And the memo and the varied communications that had been despatched out had been particular to this occasion, they weren’t contained inside different messaging or there was no different messaging included?
THE WITNESS:· That’s right.
At this level in his testimony, DePerno claims Brater uncared for to inform the jury concerning the Could 20, 2021, letter to the Cheboygan County Clerk informing her it was the clerk’s prerogative to have their tabulators inspected by an permitted vendor.
Had Mr. Brater been sincere with the jury, would they nonetheless have agreed to cost the defendants? Would they’ve come to a unique conclusion in the event that they knew that the clerk did nothing mistaken, in accordance with Brater’s latest letter, by giving the tabulator to an permitted inspector primarily based on her finest judgment?
We spoke with Constitutional Lawyer Matt DePerno on the day after he found exculpatory proof that had instructed us had been withheld in his case.
DePerno defined that he found the proof on the day earlier than Stefanie Lambert was to look in court docket. His lawyer instantly despatched the data to Lambert and Rendon’s lawyer.
Beneath regular circumstances, DePerno’s bombshell discovery ought to change the route of this made-for-the-leftist media case, however we aren’t dwelling in regular instances.
The case towards three outspoken election-integrity fighters is eerily just like the eight felony prices towards 15 MI GOP Electors for merely casting an alternate slate of electoral votes for President Trump in 2020.
Though two of essentially the most high-profile electors declared publicly in a press convention after casting their alternate votes for Trump that they had been solely casting their votes as a “backup” within the occasion the election outcomes had been overturned, so President Trump would nonetheless get the 16 electoral votes.
As is the case with the MI GOP Electors, the true punishment is the method itself. Prime Democrat officers use their positions to commit lawfare towards their political enemies, and the media does their half to smear and destroy the reputations of the INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY defendants, whose lives have been turned the other way up.
Matt DePerno instructed us that the costs towards him “have actually destroyed my life”—“They’ve destroyed my profession.” DePerno added, “My legislation observe is struggling. No person needs to rent a lawyer accused of committing felonies.” Sadly, that is exactly what those that commit lawfare towards their political enemies need to hear.
On Monday, after receiving the exculpatory proof of their case from DePerno’s lawyer, Stefanie Lambert’s lawyer, Dan Hartman, who is understood for his fearless protection of election integrity in Michigan, filed a movement to dismiss his consumer’s case.
Oakland County Circuit Courtroom Decide Jeffrey Matis agreed to reschedule Lambert’s trial for December 2, 2024 however rejected Lawyer Dan Hartman’s movement to dismiss. In his emergency movement to quash, Mr. Hartman accused the prosecution of a Brady violation over their alleged failure to show over proof.
From the Emergency Movement to Quash Lambert’s case by her lawyer Dan Hartman:
Defendant, Stefanie Lambert, joined within the reduction requested within the Depero Movement to Dismiss
Within the movement to dismiss, Mr. Brater is accused of willfully deceptive the grand jury to affect it. The state’s second strongest election official can be accused of threatening to indict clerks, and knowingly perjuring himself, as a witness representing the Mi Sec. of State.
“Brater lied to the grand jury by representing that it was a prohibition, reasonably than a prerogative,” the movement to dismiss states. It continues, “This was a transparent misrepresentation of legislation and tact.”
Fascinating that when Brater was pressed by the grand juror asking questions he moved from an INSTRUCTION to admitting it was contained merely in a NEWSLETTER to clerks after which Deperno on the eleventh hour claims to have found that neither is true.
On info and perception, Deperno’s Lawyer introduced this to the eye of the Particular Prosecutor earlier this week or final week and this was not disclosed.
If this lack of disclosure doesn’t warrant dismissal it should end in an adjournment.
That is BRADY materials and it was by no means turned over by the Particular Prosecutor as a substitute it was
supplied from a court docket submitting by the CO-Defendant.This movement to dismiss will likely be heard within the District Courtroom and can probably be reviewed of exculpatory proof as a BRADY violation
Stefanie Lambert’s case has now been postponed till after the election in December.
The decide referred to as a quick recess to overview the movement.
Curiously, Hilson agreed to take the questionable case towards Nessel’s political enemy, Matthew DePerno, election-integrity lawyer Stefanie Lambert, and Republican State Rep. Daire Rendon.
Nevertheless, the Muskegon County Prosecutor uncared for to cost anybody with crimes in the huge Democrat-funded voter registration fraud that was first found in Muskegon, MI, in October 2020.
One yr in the past, the Gateway Pundit solely obtained a Michigan State Police report that exposed a shocking months-long investigation into GBI Methods, a Joe Biden and Senator Gary Peters-funded “voter outreach” group.
The well-funded group, which has since disappeared, turned in between 8,000 and 10,000 voter registrations through mail and in particular person to Muskegon Clerk Ann Meisch just one month earlier than the 2020 election.
In response to MI SOS Investigator Corey Aimes, a big amount of the voter registration functions GBI Methods was the Muskegon clerk’s workplace had been decided to be fraudulent.
Though the MI State Police report clearly reveals MI SOS Benson’s investigator admitting that “a amount of the voter software varieties” they sampled had been “clearly fraudulent,” Muskegon Prosecutor DJ Hilson by no means charged a single particular person with any crimes associated to the 2020 GBI Methods case.
A number of companies, together with the MI State Police, Muskegon Police, MI SOS workplace, and MI AG’s workplace, had been concerned within the investigation; but, for some purpose, Michigan clerks had been by no means instructed to be looking out for bins of fraudulent voter registrations being mailed to clerks throughout the state from a lodge in Auburn Hills, MI.
The statewide investigation started in Muskegon and was finally taken over by the FBI, the place it went to die.
MI AG Nessel and MI SOS Jocelyn Benson hid the investigation of the Democrat-funded operation from the general public, together with Michigan clerks. Ultimately, the GBI Methods investigation led to a raid on the voter registration operation’s headquarters, the place police discovered luggage of burner telephones and pre-paid playing cards, semi-automatic rifles with suppressors, and modified pistols that had been left behind by the GBI Methods proprietor whereas he was out of state.
