June 18, 2025 New News about the MEDC.
https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/michigan-ag-executes-search-warrant-state-economic-development-offices
- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office served a search warrant Wednesday at the Michigan Economic Development Corp.
- The warrant comes as Nessel is investigating money paid to a rocket firm and to a business incubator
- A spokesperson for the MEDC called Wednesday’s action ‘unwarranted and unnecessary’
Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office on Wednesday executed a search warrant at the Lansing headquarters of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, officials confirmed.
The agency is charged with distributing millions of dollars in taxpayer grants and subsidies, and the warrant was exceedingly rare — coming when its director was in Australia on a trade mission with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
While the nature of Wednesday’s action isn’t publicly known, it comes as Nessel’s office is investigating two grants administered by the MEDC — $2 million for a group hoping to launch a rocket-launching site along Lake Superior and $20 million for a business incubator.
July 8, 2025 Second story about the MEDC Issue
The Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) has been paying Mike Duggan’s campaign advisor, Alexis Wiley, since at least February 2023 for multiple public relations projects—including crisis communications for the agency that Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office just raided.
The MEDC has been under fire for awarding a $20 million grant to Global Link International, a newly created nonprofit led by Whitmer donor Fay Beydoun. The grant is now the subject of a criminal investigation by Nessel, who recently executed search warrants at MEDC’s office and Beydoun’s residence.
In May 2024, weeks after The Detroit News first publicly reported Nessel’s investigation into MEDC’s $20 million grant to Global Link—including revelations that Beydoun used the funds to purchase a $4,500 coffee maker and was paying herself a $550,000 salary—the MEDC signed a new contract with Wiley’s firm, agreeing to pay $52,000 for “crisis communications and broad media relations.”