Ex EDC President’s Actions Still Questioned – 13,000 Thousand Questions to be Exact

Written by John Face
September 6, 2023

City Watch has been reporting about the activities of former Economic Development Corporation (EDC) President Virgie Ammerman since her board fired her in early August. CLICK HERE TO READ THE ORIGINAL STORY. Ammerman said in her interview one week after her August 10 firing she would be quickly rehired. So far, that has not happened.

There is a scheduled meeting tomorrow morning at City Hall with what appears to be an illegal board that plans to rehire her, even in the face of investigations of her trying to delete emails from the EDC server after her firing. She has gone public in an attempt to say that she was trying to archive the emails that she conveniently accidentally deleted; fortunately, the emails appear to have been retrieved by the Michigan State Police, according to sources, so that the board can view them. The issue is, she was not an employee apparently when she tried to hide the emails.

City Watch received another round of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). In this round, we find that the city of Albion billed her for more illegal charges she made with her corporate credit card that City Watch found when this investigation began. Ammerman now owes an additional $138 on top of the over $600 she had to repay.

We also now know the scope of what appears to be her inability to understand simple instructions and rules. As reported earlier, she illegally hired Dick Lindsey of Abbott, Thomson, Mauldin, Parker, Beer, and Lindsey out of Jackson, MI. Most will remember Lindsey as the attorney used by Mat Johnson, the disgraced former President of Albion College, who bought up multiple properties in Albion for Albion College. He also appears to be tied to John Jones a Florida real estate speculator who has been buying properties for the Blue Oval Project in Marshall.

Can someone explain how a contract paying an attorney with questionable ethics is considered an ordinary expense? How much money did Lindsey and his firm bill the EDC? In August alone, $13,000. The EDC Board needs to address this, but this will continue unless legal challenges CLICK THIS LINK TO ORIGINAL STORY ON LEGAL CHALLENGES are successful.

City Watch wants to update you on the legal challenge by Ed Haas, and plans are for the Circuit Court to receive his request for an injunction as soon as today.

More to come soon