A 50-year-old former Michigan teacher and principal, was sentenced to serve 720 months in the Federal Bureau of Prisons for sexual exploitation of two minors. He was also sentenced by a Muskegon County Circuit Court judge to 20 to 95 years in a related sexual assault case.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdmi/pr/2020_1020_Russell#:~:text=October 20, 2020-,Elementary School Educator Gets 60 Years For Child Exploitation,sexual exploitation of two minors.

The case clearly represents hard work and partnership by numerous agencies/offices.

 This case is part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative designed to protect children from online exploitation and abuse. The U.S. Attorney’s Office, county prosecutor’s offices, the Internet Crimes Against Children task force (ICAC), federal, state, tribal, and local law enforcement are working closely together to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children. The partners in Project Safe Childhood work to educate local communities about the dangers of online child exploitation, and to teach children how to protect themselves. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit the following web site: www.projectsafechildhood.gov. Individuals with information or concerns about possible child exploitation should contact local law enforcement officials.

The facts of these cases are appalling, including that this man, who was a teacher and principal in Michigan, left Michigan in 2018 after he was suspended when a teacher filed a complaint about his “interest” in two elementary students. He was allowed to resign and moved to Las Vegas where he was hired as a fourth grade teacher. How can this still happen?!

Thankfully his latest stint as a fourth grade teacher has been cut short and that he was prosecuted in both state and federal courts in western Michigan. There is no parole in the federal system. His 22-year reign of terror over kids is over.

Thanks to a reader for the information.

If you haven’t voted, make sure you do. This is the most important election of my lifetime, that’s for sure. Sitting it out is inexcusable and unpatriotic.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/elections/voting-lines-2020-election/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https://s2.washingtonpost.com/car-ln-tr/2c46c51/5f91b1ca9d2fda0efb5153bb/59863c879bbc0f6826e691d6/8/71/3eda90cb51618eebb69c0bceb347eb24

Don’t forget that elected officials are responsible at a local level for public safety. This includes the prosecuting attorney, the county sheriff, judges, city council (oversee local police departments).

Maybe in Oakland County you don’t worry about policing or the judiciary. You don’t have any of those nasty, big cities within your borders. Everyone is just like you, right?! Worried about 401(k)s, stock portfolios, business opportunities, parks and maybe your schools (if you have school-age kids).

But you should worry about policing and the judiciary. You should worry about corruption and corrupt practices. You should carefully make choices so that your opportunity for a cleaner slate is not squandered.

Ghislaine Maxwell has lost her fight to keep her Jeffrey Epstein testimony sealed. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article246561388.html 

Maxwell was trying to thwart the release of a 418-page deposition she gave in a 2016 civil suit against the late sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein, as well as to consolidate her appeals in numerous overlapping cases. A federal appeals court shut her down.

An attorney who had represented some of Epstein’s victims said: “This is good news for not just the victims of Epstein, but for victims everywhere,” he said. “The Courts should not be a party to the long history of Epstein and his co-conspirator’s attempts to avoid public scrutiny for their actions. Everyone who was a part of the Epstein sex ring should be concerned.”

Must suck not to have a future trump cabinet member/government attorney to cut illegal deals for you, Ghislaine. Can you even imagine a quote saying: Everyone in the Oakland County, Cass Corridor, N. Fox Island child sex/porn rings should be concerned. ????