Michigan Gov. Whitmer's health director received payout amid abrupt resignation: report

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Governor Whitmer is also being subjected to the whole nursing home data similar to Cuomo.  Not surprising really.

 

Michigan Gov. Whitmer's health director received payout amid abrupt resignation: report

 

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's health department director is set to receive a $155,506 payout after his sudden resignation in January, and his departure still has not been explained, The Detroit News first reported on Monday.

Former Michigan state health department director Robert Gordon also signed a confidentiality agreement "in the interest of protecting deliberations among government officials," according to the deal obtained via an open-records request by The Detroit News.

"In response to any inquiries from prospective employers, employer will state that employee voluntarily resigned," the agreement read, according to The Detroit News' reporting.

 

"We're still investigating the things the Whitmer Administration has done during COVID in plain sight, when we find out about a secret payoff behind closed doors," state Rep. Steve Johnson, chair of the Michigan House Oversight Committee, told Fox News in a statement. "While it doesn't surprise me, the deception is shocking and shows how badly this Administration needs oversight so they can be held to account."

"Mr. Robert Gordon was the state's health director and played an instrumental role in the state's COVID-19 response," Ted Goodman, spokesman for the Michigan GOP, told Fox News in a statement. "Michigan taxpayers deserve to know the circumstances surrounding the resignation of Mr. Gordon in the middle of a public health crisis. Why is Gov. Whitmer refusing to explain this secret deal?"

 

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/michigan-gov-whitmer-health-director-payout-resignation

 

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2021/03/01/former-michigan-health-director-got-payout-confidentiality-deal/6874254002/

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The lawsuit regarding Whitmer's Cuomolike nursing home scandal.

 

Reporter Charlie LeDuff to sue Michigan Gov. Whitmer over nursing home coronavirus data

 

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/michigan-coronavirus-data-gretchen-whitmer-lawsuit

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Another buy-out by the MI governor.

 

Ex-Michigan health department deputy also got separation agreement

 

Lansing — Sarah Esty, who served as a deputy director while Robert Gordon led Michigan's health department, reached a separation agreement with the state in addition to Gordon, a department spokesman confirmed Tuesday morning. 

The acknowledgment came a day after The Detroit News reported Gordon, who abruptly stepped down on Jan. 22, agreed to a $155,506 deal with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's administration that required the two sides to maintain confidentiality about the circumstances that led to his departure.

 

As of Tuesday morning, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services hadn't released the details of Esty's arrangement with the state. Esty didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

Gordon, who joined the Whitmer administration in January 2019, had been a central figure in Michigan's response to COVID-19, a virus linked to 15,534 deaths in the state. The News obtained Gordon's separation agreement through an open records request. The arrangement spurred criticism about the use of taxpayer funds and calls for investigation.

 

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2021/03/02/ex-michigan-health-department-director-deputy-also-got-separation-agreement/6884381002/

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I want one, too.  I shall apply for these vacancies.