“Fairness and transparency are paramount. We must always do the right thing even if it exposes our own office, even when it’s not easy.”

Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald, yesterday: https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2021/05/14/juwan-deering-arson-oakland-county-prosecutor-jail-informantsf/5071835001/. See also:

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2021/05/14/prosecutor-townsend-whitmer-kidnap-ethics/5094269001/.

This is a good sign. The hard part is that those of us familiar with the OCCK investigation over the decades know others from that office are even dirtier than past OC assistant prosecutor Greg Townsend.