Two former Michigan State legislators charged after cheating cover-up, according to the state’s Attorney General Bill Schuette and Det. First Lt. Sean Furlong of the Michigan State Police. Todd Courser and Cindy Gamrat, both Republicans, face felony charges over their failed attempt to hide their extramarital affair with a strange fake gay sex scandal.
Two former Michigan State legislators charged after cheating cover-up, according to the state’s Attorney General Bill Schuette and Det. First Lt. Sean Furlong of the Michigan State Police. Todd Courser and Cindy Gamrat, both Republicans, face felony charges over their failed attempt to hide their extramarital affair with a strange fake gay sex scandal.
Allegedly, Courser and Gamrat conducted themselves in a most unseemly way while in office. Charges include both of them lying to the House Business Office during an official investigation and Courser giving false testimony to the House Select Committee – under oath – in regards to instructions to his staff to forge his signature on proposed legislation.
AG Schuette said, “The voters placed a sacred trust in the hands of Todd Courser and Cindy Gamrat when they chose them to serve as their voices in the Capitol. But instead of serving their home towns, they served only themselves at the expense of everyone else. With the filing of these charges, it is my hope that citizens of Michigan see that no one is above the law, not even those who walk in the halls of power; that no one is beyond the reach of the law, not even those who make the laws and when laws are broken, that justice can and will be delivered.”
Courser, from the Lapeer area is facing the most serious of the charges. He, apparently, was the planner behind a wild gay sex scandal meant to hide his affair with Gamrat. He also asked former aide, Ben Graham, to send a fake email breaking news of the gay sex story to other Republican legislators in an attempt to keep them from discovering his affair with Gamrat.
Courser’s felony charges include: “three charges of misconduct in office, with a maximum penalty of five years in prison and/or a maximum $10,000 fine. One charge of perjury, a felony, with a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison.”
Plainwell-based Gamrat is charged with “two charges of misconduct in office, a felony, with a maximum penalty of five years in prison and/or a maximum $10,000 fine.”
Authorities issued arrest warrants for both Gamrat and Courser. Gamrat’s arrest warrant can be view here and Courser’s here.
Something tells me neither Courser, nor Gamrat is smiling now.
Courser resigned his position shortly before the House was about to vote for his expulsion, while Gamrat was removed from her position by fellow lawmakers.
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