March 9, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – Michigan’s Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer could pay a price for her own state’s treatment of nursing home patients in the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak, according to a county prosecutor who says charges over the resulting deaths may be possible.
“If we find there’s been willful neglect of office if we find there’s been reckless endangerment of a person’s life by bringing them in then we would move forward with charges against the Governor,” New Macomb County Prosecutor Peter Lucido told WXYZ Monday.
Lucido, a former state Senator who has been investigating the situation since last year, said in August that more than 2,000 residents and 21 staff died in nursing homes, which amounted to 32 percent of all COVID-19 deaths at the time.
Lucido has previously urged the state association of county prosecutors to form a Blue Ribbon commission to investigate, but it said he should instead put that request to state and federal law enforcement – which Lucido has also done, to no avail.
“I didn’t receive a very warm welcome,” he lamented. “This is not political, everyone. This is about people who passed away at the behest of a policy that was
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