Former state employee sentenced for using state vehicles for personal use

May 24th, 20240 LANSING – Last Friday, Rufus Chappell, 64, of Farmington Hills, was sentenced before Judge Mariam Bazzi in Wayne County's Third Circuit Court to three years’ probation and restitution in the amount of $47,214.85 to the Unemployment Insurance Agency after a jury found the former state employee guilty of embezzlement in April,...

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and MDHHS Director Robert Gordon announce charges against former state employee

March 1st, 20192 LANSING – Attorney General Dana Nessel and Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) Director Robert Gordon announced on Feb. 28 that Detroit resident and former MDHHS employee Eliza Yulonda Ijames, 56, is being charged with three felonies. She is charged with one count of Medicaid fraud-conspiracy and two counts of...