{"id":201835,"date":"2021-03-08T21:59:55","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T02:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=201835"},"modified":"2021-03-08T21:59:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T02:59:58","slug":"breaking-prosecutor-indicates-criminal-charges-possible-against-gretchen-whitmer-over-nursing-home-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-prosecutor-indicates-criminal-charges-possible-against-gretchen-whitmer-over-nursing-home-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Prosecutor Indicates Criminal Charges Possible Against Gretchen Whitmer Over Nursing Home Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbreaking-prosecutor-indicates-criminal-charges-possible-against-gretchen-whitmer-over-nursing-home-deaths%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=201835&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GW-1-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A local Michigan prosecutor has indicated that criminal charges could be forthcoming against Michigan Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer over her handling of the coronavirus pandemic as it relates to people who died in nursing homes.<\/p>\n<p>New Macomb County Prosecutor Peter Lucido told ABC Detroit that he is encouraging people who lost loved ones in nursing homes to go and get information from the facilities about the circumstances surrounding their loved ones\u2019 death because, according to Lucido, he can\u2019t access that information due to HIPAA laws. Lucido encourages people to file a wrongful death complaint with police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we find there\u2019s been willful neglect of office if we find there\u2019s been reckless endangerment of a person\u2019s life by bringing them in then we would move forward with charges against the Governor,\u201d Lucido said. \u201cOf course, we would. Nobody\u2019s above the law in this state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lucido \u201cwill be meeting with Macomb County Police to instruct them on how to process and verify the information and bring it to his office,\u201d ABC Detroit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wxyz.com\/news\/coronavirus\/macomb-county-prosecutor-says-criminal-charges-possible-against-governor-whitmer-over-nursing-home-deaths\">reported<\/a>. \u201cAfter becoming Prosecutor this year, Lucido asked fellow county prosecutors to form a Blue-Ribbon Committee for consistency investigating these cases. That Association as a group declined and said Lucido should make the request to the Michigan Attorney General and feds. Lucido provided letters showing he did that last May.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report said that the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office would look into Lucido\u2019s request but noted that the attorney general, presumably Michigan\u2019s attorney general, apparently indicated that there was not enough to launch an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Whitmer\u2019s office said in a statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Our top priority from the start has been protecting Michiganders, especially seniors and our most vulnerable. The administration\u2019s policies carefully tracked CDC guidance on nursing homes, and we prioritized testing of nursing home residents and staff to save lives. Early in the pandemic, the state acted swiftly to create a network of regional hubs with isolation units and adequate PPE to prevent the spread of COVID-19 within a facility. In addition, we have offered 100 percent of nursing home resident priority access to the vaccine. Both the former head of AARP, as well as an independent U-M study, praised our work to save lives in nursing homes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Mr. Lucido\u2019s comments are shameful political attacks based in neither fact nor reality. Even his former colleague, Republican Sen. Ed McBroom, has said they \u201chave not seen any evidence or testimony that says that a nursing home was forced to take someone against their will.\u201d And there\u2019s a reason why Mr. Lucido\u2019s colleagues have publicly rebuked this politically-motivated waste of taxpayer dollars. Michiganders are tired of these petty partisan games, and we won\u2019t be distracted by them either.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A local Michigan prosecutor has indicated that criminal charges could be forthcoming against Michigan Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer over her handling of the coronavirus pandemic as it relates to people &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2310325,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GW-1-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"BREAKING: Prosecutor Indicates Criminal Charges Possible Against Gretchen Whitmer Over Nursing Home Deaths","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GW-1-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"BREAKING: Prosecutor Indicates Criminal Charges Possible Against Gretchen Whitmer Over Nursing Home Deaths","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}