Don Yowchuang, Deputy District Director Eleven Felonies, Six Misdemeanors a 10 counts of Election Law Forgery, each a 5 year felony a 1 count of Conspiracy, a 5 year felony a 6 counts of Falsely Signing a Nominating Petition as Circulator, each a 93 day misdemeanor
Paul Seewald, District Director
One Felony, Nine Misdemeanors a count of Conspiracy, a 5 year felony 1 a 9 counts of Falsely Signing a Nominating Petition as Circulator, each a 93 day misdemeanor
Mary Melissa Turnbull, District Representative
One Felony, One Misdemeanor a 1 count of Conspiracy, a 5 year felony a 1 count of Falsely Signing a Nominating Petition as Circulator, a 93 day misdemeanor
Lorianne OBrady, Former Scheduler
Five Misdemeanors a 5 counts of Falsely Signing a Nominating Petition as Circulator, each a 93 day misdemeanor
A criminal charge is merely an accusation and the defendants are presumed innocent until proven guility.
Attorney General Bill Schuette
PUBLIC INTEGRITY UNIT
Evidence of Possible Election Law Forgery
Pursuant to MCL 168.937 PETITION #15
Example of Alleged Forged Documents: Petition #15, #78
The Attorney Generals Office Alleges: Voter signatures obtained on petitions during another election cycle were cut from the original petition and electronically pasted onto a blank petition which already contained false dates of voter signing. The resulting false document was then duplicated on a copy machine. This resulted in two separate false documents, petitions #15 and #78. Defendant Yowchuang then signed both petitions, falsely certifying that the documents were genuine and that he had circulated the petitions. He dated petition #15 May 4, 2012, and dated the duplicate copy (#78) May 5, 2012.