It’s Not Just Cuomo. Whitmer’s Now Under Attack, Too.

I was talking to a friend in Michigan the other day about New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo coming under attack for permitting COVID patients to be admitted to nursing homes. Critics say the policy led to the deaths of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of nursing home patients.

My friend asked me, “What about Gov. Whitmer?”

Admittedly with all the attention on Cuomo, I was unware then there was a similar policy in Michigan. But it’s inescapable now that Michigan’s Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer faces the prospect of facing criminal charges over that regulation.

Macomb County, which rests on Detroit’s northeast border, has a new prosecutor. Peter Lucido came in on a promise to clean up corruption in the county.

Republican Lucido replaces Eric Smith, who was charged in Macomb County court with 10 counts of public corruption. He resigned as a condition for taking a plea in a separate federal case.

Smith left the prosecutor’s office a mess. And everyone expected Lucido to come in after winning in November and clean things up on the county level. What they might not have expected that he’d turn his attention toward Lansing, the state capital. And Whitmer, the governor.