By Brandon Hall
(Email him at WestMIPolitics@Gmail.com)
Nearly a year after The State Of Michigan halted construction and stopped grant payments on an extremely controversial construction project in Northern Michigan involving State Rep. Tom Kunse and former House Speaker Jason Wentworth, a number of serious questions still remain.
Kunse, who replaced Wentworth in the Michigan House, made $3.5 million in a land sale off the state grant---which "coincidentally" was awarded to (and administered by) a Kunse donor and close former staffer of Wenworth's, David Coker.
Coker enlisted another Kunse donor, serial conman Anthony Demasi,
who was just sentenced to his 2nd stint in federal prison on an
unrelated scam, to run the operation.
On July 2nd, 2022, Speaker Wentworth announced he had helped secure “$25 million for a new community health and recreation center in Clare” during budget negotiations.
"The community complex in Clare is a new one-stop-shop concept that brings healthcare services, recreation, and community events together into one place,” Wentworth said. “Connecting those services will create new opportunities for the community, make healthcare easier to access, and give everyone new options for how to find the care they need.”
Less than a year later, the operation being run by Wentworth and Kunse, as well as their cronies David Coker and Tony Demasi, was exposed by Bridge Michigan’s Jonathan Oosting:
Immediately after the Bridge investigation was published,
the shady project was put on hold.
Attorney General Dana Nessel is now investigating the scandal:
Brandon Hall is a lifelong political nerd from Grand Haven, and is the Managing Editor of West Michigan Politics.
>>>Email him at WestMIPolitics@Gmail.com
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