LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Prosecutors charged the former leader of the Michigan House and his wife with financial crimes Tuesday, alleging they milked political accounts for personal travel, housing and ...

EAST LANSING — More than $960 for dry cleaning. Over $1,200 for car washes. Nearly $6,300 on clothing. These are purchases government prosecutors allege former Michigan House Speaker Lee Chatfield and ...

While there is ample room for improvement in Michigan’s laws designed to protect minors from sexual predators, our laws that prohibit sex between minors and school administrators or adult members of ...

UPDATE: The Minards will be arraigned on the felony charges Jan. 3, 2024 at 9 a.m. in 54-B District Court in East Lansing. UPDATE: Investigation began, officials say, when Chatfield’s former sister-in ...

The attorney for Rebekah Chatfield, who alleges she was repeatedly sexually abused when she was a teenager by her brother-in-law, former state House Speaker Lee Chatfield, fired back at the ...

Note: This story was updated to correctly reflect the amount that Chatfield is alleged to have misappropriated from the Peninsula Fund. Lee Chatfield, former Republican Speaker of the Michigan House, ...

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel filed charges of financial crimes against former State House speaker Lee Chatfield and his wife, Stephanie Chatfield, on Tuesday. Nessel announced the charges at ...

Another top aide to former Speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives Lee Chatfield was convicted Thursday after ...