Workplace behavior investigation into Macomb County Prosecutor’s Office underway — What we know

MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. – Macomb County launched the outcomes of an unbiased investigation into Prosecutor Peter Lucido on Monday.

The investigation seems to be into a number of allegations of inappropriate conduct within the office by Lucido.

Lucido’s lawyer spoke out Monday evening, saying the “so-called report” is nothing greater than a group of unchallenged complaints.

The findings of a office investigation into Lucido’s workplace are in and the investigation itself, finished by Butzel attorneys and counselors prompted by allegations made by a number of staff.

9 of the 16 former and present staff describe an “offensive” method by which Lucido allegedly handled feminine employees much less favorably than their male counterparts.

On Valentine’s Day, two people reported Lucido mentioned he would “like some kisses from his girls.”

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The grievance additionally notes a time Lucido allegedly referred to a feminine worker as “Double D.”

The investigation uncovered greater than inappropriate feedback with sexual innuendos.

5 people reported that Lucido said throughout a gathering that he supposed to assign a Black lawyer to the warrant division following the so-called Shelby 5 incident involving Black Lives Matter protestors.

They allege Lucido needed a Black assistant prosecuting lawyer within the division as a result of “these individuals” couldn’t complain that he was being unfair if a Black APA was making the selections.

The shuffling round of attorneys to totally different departments within the workplace; Lucido’s lawyer mentioned:

“The unhappy actuality is that Prosecutor Lucido took over a corruptly run Prosecutor’s Workplace and used due course of within the courts to realize the targets and targets of restoring that workplace to its correct standing and capabilities defending the general public. His success within the courts when difficult obstruction of that effort by the workplace of County Govt has enraged the County Govt. This so known as “report” is nothing greater than a group of unchallenged complaints. These kinds of complaints have all the time, and will have, adopted the grievance course of below union contracts. That will have complied with important due course of, together with the chance of the accused to confront his accuser. As an alternative, the County Govt commissioned a legislation agency, at taxpayer’s expense, primarily to hunt out complaints and draw conclusions and proposals in opposition to an elected official he clearly dislikes. When requested, the surface legislation agency couldn’t present any authority to conduct this so-called “investigation”. Then again, Prosecutor Lucido supplied a unanimous opinion of the Michigan Courtroom of Appeals instructing that the County Govt unequivocally doesn’t have the authority to rent an out of doors legislation agency to “examine” one other county-wide elected official.

The residents of Macomb County elected Mr. Lucido as Prosecutor to clean-up a criminal offense infested prosecutor’s workplace headed by then Prosecutor and now convicted felon Eric Smith. To say that modifications needed to be made to treatment the rampant injury attributable to the admitted legal conduct occurring within the Prosecutor’s Workplace is an understatement. It seems that a number of Assistant Prosecuting Attorneys had been upset that Prosecutor Lucido needed to make modifications within the Prosecutor’s Workplace. The report itself highlights – however rapidly jettisons as an inconvenient reality – that Prosecutor Lucido lawfully “desired to take away or reduce the roles of people who had been in senior positions throughout Prosecutor Smith’s administration and easily exercised his discretion as an elected official to reorganize the roles within the Prosecutor’s Workplace.” The report additionally fails to notice that there haven’t been any grievances filed in opposition to Prosecutor Lucido below the governing collective bargaining settlement aside from the Assistant Prosecuting Legal professional who was the topic of an investigation by the State Bar of Michigan’s Legal professional Disciplinary Board.

Remarkably, the report questions Prosecutor Lucido for performing a essential perform of his job by disciplining an Assistant Prosecuting Legal professional who (1) admitted he failed to tell Prosecutor Lucido that the State Bar of Michigan’s Legal professional Disciplinary Board had despatched him a proper Request for Investigation accusing him of violating the Michigan Guidelines of Skilled Conduct that govern attorneys in Michigan and (2) failed to tell Prosecutor Lucido of a associated Discover of Listening to. This Assistant Prosecuting Legal professional additionally didn’t comply with the required steps to request that the taxpayers of Macomb County pay him break day in reference to this continuing. Maybe such conduct would have been acceptable below Prosecutor Smith’s administration, however such conduct is just not, and won’t be, tolerated in Prosecutor Lucido’s administration.”

Assertion on behalf of Peter Lucido