Substack writer Phoebe Howard is doing a great job following the case of convicted sex offender Robert Allen “Bob” Declercq, a former Morgan Stanley wealth manager and “sailing champion” from Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan. The mainstream media, not so much.
DeClerqc recently entered into a stipulated settlement with the State of Michigan, where the state can pursue collection of incarceration costs if/when an inmate has assets to pay.
https://phoebewallhoward.substack.com/p/declercq-to-pay-48k-annual-prison
The sex offender has cancer, so his payments to the state might be short-lived. When you have more money than you will ever need and every advantage in life and still decide to rape a child (or an adult), paying for your loss of freedom makes perfect sense. The rest should go to his granddaughter.
Kind of makes you understand why someone–retired law enforcement, no less–might escape to a southern state and off himself rather than face this kind of music. Know what I mean? Retired law enforcement. Big fat Morgan Stanley financial advisor. Just “higher class” versions of Richard Lawson, Arch Sloan, Ted Lamborgine, Josiah Tazelaar and Kent Schultz. Really no different in any significant way beyond assets. Same broken wiring and criminality in a different economic strata.
Howard’s coverage of Declercq’s earlier travels through the criminal justice system:
Robert Declerqc, 72, former “Grosse Pointer” and Convicted Pedophile
