FAX To Michigan Supreme Court

Michigan Supreme Court Hall of Justice, 6th Floor 925 W.
Ottawa Street Lansing, MI 48915 Phone: (517) 373-0128 Fax: (517) 373-9831
Chief Justice Robert P. Young, Jr. Justice Michael F. Cavanagh Justice Mary Beth Kelly Justice Stephen J. Markman Justice Bridget Mary McCormack Justice David F. Viviano Justice Brian K. Zahra
Your Honors, In honor of Memorial Day, with my respects, and to assist you in your duties to administer the courts of this state, please consider the following: Please be aware that, at Friend of the Court offices around Michigan, there is evidence of the appearance of illicit and potentially criminal activities. This evidence includes evidence of theft of child support, evidence of child custody fraud, evidence of tampering with witnesses, evidence of child support calculation fraud, evidence of obstructing a federal audit, etc. http://www.scribd.com/doc/57079006/Some-Evidence-of-Illicit-and-Potentially-Criminal-Behavior-at-the-MichiganFriend-of-the-Court Please also be aware that there is also evidence of illicit or potentially criminal activities with respect to parenting time enforcement at the F.O.C.: http://www.scribd.com/doc/96650858/Evidence-of-Illicit-and-Potentially-Criminal-Activities-with-Regards-toParenting-Time-at-the-Michigan-Friend-of-the-Court Please also be aware that one person who attended a F.O.C.B. meeting wrote: "You only need to go as far as the Genessee County FOC .. He openly tells of standing on line on his 1st day on the job as FOC, while an un-knowing clerk twice told him to "get behind the line" as she was taking a personal call on her cell, and told of another employee who came back from vacation, then proceeded to systematically dump over 90 voicemails from his phone while talking about the previous night ballgame with his cube-neighbor." [FRC@yahoogroups.com, Fall 2012] Please also be aware that former FOC enforcement specialist Carol Rhodes explained: 'I came to the 32nd circuit family court to make a difference, ... but early on I realized ... it was all about money ... In the years I worked for the system I witnessed regular deception ... that was mandated by office policy. I saw gender bias and discrimination. I saw records destroyed. ... We were rated according to how much money we would bring in' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M7cEi61W24 Please be aware that Donna Pendergast, First Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division has stated in effect that the Attorney General will not investigate evidence of illicit or potentially criminal activities at the Friend of the Court. For example, when responding to the evidence of illicit and potentially criminal activities above, etc, she wrote: "the Attorney General lacks the power to oversee the Friend of the Court" (Correspondence dated December 10, 2012).
As you are aware the FOCB also tasked to "(1) The state friend of the court bureau is created within the state court
administrative office, under the supervision and direction of the supreme court. ... (1) The state friend of the court bureau is created within the state court administrative office, under the supervision and direction of the supreme court. ... (3) The bureau shall do all of the following: (a) Develop and recommend guidelines for conduct, operations, and procedures of the office and its employees, including, but not limited to, the following: .. (vi) A formula to be used in establishing and modifying a child support amount and health care obligation. The formula shall be based upon the needs of the child and the actual resources of each parent." (from MCL 552.519) Please be aware that the difference of cubes parenting time offset formula is so dubious that after 105 dinners, perhaps a typical child might notice every once in a while that the mac and cheese they eat with their non-primary parent has peas in it, while the other parent can enjoy a steak dinner and more alone on the child support dollars for that night, and that the graphs explaining the formula are simply inaccurate. http://www.scribd.com/doc/458394/Michigan-Friend-of-the-Court-Child-Support-Modification-Request
(See pages 45-) As you are aware the FOCB also tasked to "(n) Coordinate the provision of title IV-D services by the friend of the court and cooperate with the office of child support in providing those services." Please consider that this appears to make the FOCB the de-facto state agency required by federal law: "(4) Certification of the administration of the program.A certification by the chief executive officer of the State specifying which State agency or agencies will administer and supervise the program referred to in paragraph (1) for the fiscal year, which shall include assurances that local governments and private sector organizations" http://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/ssact/title04/0402.htm As you are aware the Friend of the Court is not an agency under Michigan law. Its has a special status that allows the FOC to evade all of the normal mechanisms and regulations which constrain state agencies and protect the public, including FOIA, the Open Meetings Act, etc. It is my personal belief that this special status may be violation of the statutory rights of program participants, who are granted under Federal law the statutory right to deal with a single state agency, but in Michigan are instead placed in a system where the responsibility for handling evidence of illicit and potentially criminal activities is diffused to those individuals who may actually be engaging in such activities. It is this combination of diffusion of responsibility combined with plausible deniability which appears to me to be a systematic problem at the F.O.C. Please consider, as the Michigan Supreme Court is the de-facto head of a de-facto agency, and also the ultimate authority on the interpretation of Michigan law, it is, and your Honors are, uniquely positioned, both administratively and judicially, to ensure that the rights of children and parents are respected, andto act in the interests of justice. Sincerely, a.k.a. Doug Dante

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