Attorney General Bill Schuette

PUBLIC INTEGRITY UNIT

McCotter Petition Fraud Charges

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.

PETITION #78