Attorney General Bill SchuettePUBLIC INTEGRITY UNIT

Don Yowchuang, Deputy District Director

Eleven Felonies, Six Misdemeanorsa 10 counts of Election Law Forgery, each a 5 year felony a 1 count of Conspiracy, a 5 year felonya 6 counts of Falsely Signing a Nominating Petition as Circulator,

each a 93 day misdemeanor

Paul Seewald, District Director

One Felony, Nine Misdemeanorsa1 count of Conspiracy, a 5 year felonya 9 counts of Falsely Signing a Nominating Petition as Circulator,

each a 93 day misdemeanor

Mary Melissa Turnbull, District Representative

One Felony, One Misdemeanora 1 count of Conspiracy, a 5 year felonya 1 count of Falsely Signing a Nominating Petition as Circulator,

a 93 day misdemeanor

Lorianne O’Brady, Former Scheduler

Five Misdemeanorsa 5 counts of Falsely Signing a Nominating Petition as Circulator,

each a 93 day misdemeanor

McCotter Petition Fraud Charges

A criminal charge is merely an accusation and the defendants are presumed innocent until proven guility.

Attorney General Bill SchuettePUBLIC INTEGRITY UNIT

Evidence of Possible Election Law ForgeryPursuant to MCL 168.937

Example of Alleged Forged Documents: Petition #15, #78The Attorney General’s 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 #15

PETITION #78