LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is charging political entrepreneur Fay Beydoun with 16 felonies for misusing a $20-million grant from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation.
Nessel called it a “special glass slipper grant” that Beydoun allegedly used to enrich herself and added MEDC director Quentin Messer is still a potential target in her investigation.
The 62-year-old former fundraiser for Governor Gretchen Whitmer also served two terms as the Michigan Democratic Party’s 1st Vice Chair and became the director of the American Arab Chamber of Commerce in 2008.
Her nonprofit Global Link International allegedly spent grant money on an $11,000 first class plane ticket, a $4,000 coffee maker, and six-figure short-term salary payments.
Beydoun is facing 20-years in prison if convicted of a charge of conducting a criminal enterprise.
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