On Monday, November 2, 2020, just one day before a critically important presidential election, Michigan’s Democratic attorney general was busy investigating a complaint from a USPS whistleblower working at the USPS distribution center in Detroit.
According to FOIA documents obtained by an independent investigator Yehuda Miller and shared on Twitter, a postal worker, who asked to remain anonymous, first told MI Rep. Ellissa Slotkin’s office that “thousands of ballots are sitting at the Postal Service’s main distribution center in Detroit (fa reference to their warehouse)”. The whistleblower said that “there are boxes and boxes of ballots that have not been counted and the reason given is because there are not enough sorters.”
The whistleblower complaint was forwarded to MI AG Nessel’s chief of staff, Zaineb Hussein.
Good afternoon Zaineb,
I hope you are safe and well.
Today, our office received a message from another congressional office regarding a postal worker concerned about mail-in ballots held at a local postal distribution facility.
The postal worker approached Congressman Slotkin’s office to express concern about the facility where he works. The postal worker declined to provide many details and wanted to remain anonymous. The worker reported to Slotkin’s office that thousands of ballots are at the Postal Service’s main distribution center in Detroit (referring to their warehouse).
The worker said there are boxes and boxes of ballots that have not been counted and the reason given is that there are not enough sorters.
We wanted to bring this issue to Secretary Benson’s attention, but we will also be contacting our postal liaison to bring this matter to their attention as well.
Please feel free to let us know if you have any further questions.
Larissa Richardson | District director
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, MI-13
Or: (313) 463-6217
Personal pronouns: She, Her, His
Instead of contacting the MI AG’s office, Democratic Congresswoman Ellisa Slotkin’s office contacted Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib’s office with the complaint.
Why didn’t Congresswoman Ellissa Slotkin’s office immediately contact the AG’s office to report this serious complaint?
Curiously, instead of calling the MI State Police to investigate what the postal worker claimed were thousands of countless absentee ballots scattered around a USPS warehouse, the MI AG decided to investigate themselves.
MI SOS Democrat Jocelyn Benson’s chief of staff, Zaineb Hussein, to whom the complaint was initially filed by U.S. Rep. Tlaib’s (D) office, shared the email with Benon’s elections director, Jonathan Brater .
“Reporting this to you,” Hussein wrote, adding, “Is there anything you would like me to respond with?”
Elections Director Jonathan Brater appeared to take the complaint seriously and added MI SOS Jocelyn Benson’s chief legal counsel, Mike Brady, to the email thread. Brater wrote: “Add Mike [Davis].” The elections director then suggested that AG Nessel be able to personally investigate the USPS facility, stating, “Under the court order, the AG’s office is authorized to conduct inspections, so this would likely the best course of action here, if any.”
“If there are?”
Then, a whistleblower who works for the USPS tells two different Democratic U.S. congresswomen in Michigan that he has personally witnessed thousands of countless mail-in ballots sitting in boxes because there isn’t enough help to process them, and the DIRECTOR OF ELECTIONS working for Democrat SOS Benson, who has been telling us for three years that the 2020 election was the most secure in history, suggests they may take no action?
The next day (ELECTION DAY), Christina Grossi, deputy head of AG Nessel, asked her boss about the inspection:
“Does this seem possible based on what you’ve seen and heard?” Grossi asked.
Democratic AG Dana Nessel, who appeared to have been present at the inspection, responded:
“Not based on what we saw. But who knows what they were hiding? This is a huge building. I don’t think they actually showed us all the cards. Without specific information, you would never know where to look.”
In another email, AG Nessel can be seen working with his deputy boss, Christina Grossi, in what appears to be a public cover-up of his visit to the USPS distribution center in Detroit. To date, no reports have been received regarding the whistleblower complaint or AG Nessel’s visit to the facility to investigate.
In an email response to former (now deceased) AG Nessels communications director Kelly Rossman-McKinney, Nessel deputy chief Christina Grossi wrote:
“I don’t think we should talk about postal visits anymore. I would like to debrief Washington before commenting publicly. I’m fine with the second warning.
AG Nessel communications director Kelly Rossman-McKinney responded:
“Keep me updated. I was careful not to say anything specific beyond the fact that you were there, which should be assumed since the judge’s order specifically said you could do so. Our residents deserve to know that you have taken on this responsibility” .
Grossi asked AG Communications Director Nessel to postpone the announcement of the investigation into the thousands of ballots at the USPS warehouse until AFTER the election! “Please, let’s wait until after Tuesday,” he said, adding: “We have 10,000 things to take care of tomorrow. There is no reason to add this above. A few days won’t hurt anything.
Oh! Simply WOW!!!
Then, to top it off, at 1:58 a.m. on Election Day 2020, Dana Nessel shared a cryptic statement that would suggest she may have learned more about this case or how communications were handled:
“Christina’s head is about to explode. It does not matter.”
In his tweet containing the email, Yehuda asks:
What did dana nessel mean when she wrote to 1:58am Election Night:
“Christina’s head is about to explode. It does not matter.”
It appears the discussion is about notifying the public of their postal visits to the site.
He was responding to a comment “Our… pic.twitter.com/kdJAE99OiY
— Yehuda Miller (@yehuda_miller) February 6, 2024
Here is Yehuda’s tweet with a copy of the FOIA emails:
Michigan Files, Part 10
Further discussion on USPS inspection
“Please, let’s wait until after Tuesday. Tomorrow we will have 10,000 things to deal with. There is no reason to add this above. A few days won’t hurt anything. pic.twitter.com/3OFcElo6QY
— Yehuda Miller (@yehuda_miller) February 6, 2024
We were unable to find any reports on the USPS whistleblower or his claims. Much like the Muskegon registration fraud case that turned into a statewide investigation hidden from the public, there appear to be no public statements about AG Dana Nessel’s investigation into the whistleblower claims or what she found in her investigation.