Nessel “deeply concerned” by MEDC conduct during probe of grant

LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel says she was “deeply concerned” by the conduct of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation as her office investigated a $20-million grant.

She suggested the agency “shouldn’t receive any funds at all” until better oversight is put in place after she says the MEDC “stonewalled” her investigators.

Nessel was investigating the $20-million grant awarded to Fay Beydoun and her Global Link International, of which she spent $4,500 on a coffee maker and bought $13,000 plane tickets to Europe to attend a conference.

Beydoun was on the MEDC executive committee, appointed by Governor Whitmer, when she received the grant.