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What Happened to the Weed Money for Mayor Sheffield's Charity? The owner of a Detroit pot shop donated tens of thousands to the mayor's charity, but that money isn't listed on the tax documents By Charlie LeDuff @Charlieleduff Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield is starting to remind me of disgraced former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. When the feds took Kwame to trial, the easiest thing for them to prove was that he used his tax-exempt charity—the Kilpatrick Civic Fund—as a personal piggy bank. It turned out that the Kwamster stole more than a half-million dollars from the charity that was supposed to go toward kids programs. Instead, Kilpatrick treated himself to golf clubs, exotic spa treatments, and a 2000 Cadillac DeVille with leather seats and wood-accented trim. Now comes Sheffield. Her ex-lover, Marvin Walker, claims she did the same thing while acting as city councilwoman. According to Walker, Sheffield would write him a check from her children’s charity—Detroit Donates—and have him cash it at the bank and then kick the money back directly to her. "It ended up in her pocket," Walker said, as he showed me a text message from Sheffield detailing how the scheme should work. There’s more. Sheffield’s charity—which is headquartered at her father’s activity center—was given about $40,000 over the last six years by Stuart Carter, a big marijuana guy in the city who owns a pot shop on the East Side called Utopia Gardens, as well as a grow operation and a processing center. According to his filings with state regulators, Carter claimed to have given the Sheffield charity six separate donations of $5,000 each, and one donation of $7,500. “And upon receiving a recreational adult use license,” Carter wrote to the state,“ (I) will be in a position to increase these donations substantially.” Carter did not respond to requests for comment. Here’s where Mary has serious troubles. According to federal tax law, any donation made to a charity of $5,000 or more must be listed on the charity’s tax forms. In the Utopia Gardens case, it was not. That’s a big problem. That’s how the feds got Capone. Now Marvin says Mary really likes the weed. In fact, Marvin gave me a photograph that he claims is a portrait of the two former lovebirds working in a grow house that Marvin SAYS Mary was a private investor in. That’s what Marvin claims, anyway. Sheffield’s camp had nothing to say to us. That’s okay. She can tell it to the FBI. But she better tell the truth. Lying to the feds can lead to a five-year bid in the federal penitentiary. Just ask Kwame. And people close to Sheffield are already talking to special agents. You don’t have to send Martin to the bank, madam. You can take that directly from me.

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This Woman Gave ActBlue $22 the Day We Met Her, But She Had No Internet El-Sayed is raking in campaign donations from the Democrat fundraising platform, which apparently launders contributions through the elderly By Charlie LeDuff @Charlieleduff Milan — Elizabeth Waffle, the 88-year-old retiree who found internet fame as an unwitting political super-donor, is still living in a squalid trailer deep in the Michigan countryside. And Waffle still has no electricity, no running water, and no Wi-Fi. But being a true believer in liberal causes, and having no family beyond Georgie the arthritic hound, Waffle continues to donate a small portion of her modest retirement check to ActBlue, the online donation platform for Democratic candidates and causes. But even Waffle herself was surprised to learn last July about the extent of her supposed giving. According to FEC filings, there were more than 13,000 transactions attributed to her, totaling more than $130,000 over the past five years. “I think there’s something in there that’s off,” she said then. “I don’t have that kind of money.” And something continues to be “off.” Since our last visit, another 562 transactions totaling nearly $4,500 have been credited to Waffle in just six weeks. Among those transactions were four totaling $22 on the very day we first visited, despite the fact that Waffle had no access to the internet. Among the recipients of Waffle’s alleged largesse over those 45 days is Abdul El-Sayed, the king of the Michigan micro-donors, who clocked in with a cool $51. So we returned to the tattered trailer last week to show Waffle the printouts. Then something strange happened. When the scope of our findings dawned on the old woman, she was not overcome with outrage, or even curiosity, but with latent hostility. She wondered if we were preparing a hit piece on ActBlue, the conduit to her cherished causes. “I think it’s a bunch of hogwash,” she said of our questions. “If they’re cheating on the other side,” she meant the Republicans. “Fight fire with fire?” I asked. “Yeah,” she said. “Exactly.” Now, I believe in many of the causes that Waffle does. Clean air. Healthy forests. Affordable medicines. A good day’s pay. And I told her as much. But what I do not believe in is the apparent theft of an elderly person’s identity to launder donations from overseas or those that exceed the contribution limits. Fraud does not create a better world, I said. She softened. “I believe in honesty,” she said. “I do care if somebody is fudging and putting stuff in.” “So don’t you want me to continue to look?” I asked. “Yeah, if they are,” she said. “Then you want to know?” “Yes.” “Then I give you my word. I’ll keep going.” As we walked back to the car, I wondered if at that very moment another campaign transaction was being made in Elizabeth Waffle’s name.