Michigan Attorney General’s Office executes search warrant connected to Make Your Date investigation

DETROIT – The Michigan Attorney General’s Office executed a search warrant Friday at the Detroit Public Safety Headquarters.

Sources confirm the search was of the IT department and connected to the Make Your Date investigation.

Detroit officials opened an investigation into Mayor Mike Duggan and the city’s interactions with the Make Your Date nonprofit organization in April.

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In October, the mayor’s chief of staff was accused of ordering employees to delete emails related to the investigation into the city’s support of the nonprofit. Officials were investigating the decision-making process that led to the city’s support of the program and if Duggan had a conflict of interest that played a role in that decision.

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“We partnered with Wayne State University, America’s foremost preterm birth research institution on a Make Your Date program that resulted in a 37% reduction in preterm births earlier than 32 weeks,” Duggan said. “Thousands of at-risk pregnant women benefited from this effort and delivered healthy babies. The success of the program speaks for itself.”

The Office of Inspector General found Alexis Wiley, the mayor’s chief of staff, ordered certain employees in the Office of Development and Grants to delete emails related to Make Your Date.

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