The four other individuals being sued by Sean MacMaster are Moody, Busacca, Johanna MacMaster and Center Line Officer Michael Gerald. Sean MacMaster’s case eventually was dismissed with prejudice by Nessel in December 2019, based on the revelations regarding Kolodziej and Schipani's testimony during the bond hearing. Sean MacMaster alleged that Kolodziejand Busacca failed to tell a judge while requesting charges that the victim had made inconsistent statements about the alleged abuse or that Children’s Protective Services had declined the case.ĭuring a bond hearing for Sean MacMaster, Schipani misrepresented her work experience working on sexual assault cases, the lawsuit said. The lawsuit also alleged Kolodziej and Schipani had a romantic relationship. The lawsuit alleged that Kolodziej and Schipani took the victims to a museum, had a squirt gun fight and went horseback riding. Sean MacMaster alleged in his suit that Moody should have been aware Kolodziej “was acting in a manner which violated Sean’s constitutional rights.” Kolodziej eventually obtained permission from Schuette’s Chief of Staff Laura Moody to work on the case. He continued his investigation after he was hired by the Attorney General’s Office in 2018, under former Attorney General Bill Schuette, through a federal grant to prosecute sexual assault cases. Kolodziej also met with Michigan State Police trooper David Busacca that summer about the case, the lawsuit said. Kolodziej and a Center Line police officer, both employed to handle cases in Macomb County, investigated Johanna MacMaster’s Oakland County claims in 2018, according to the lawsuit, and brought concerns to an assistant attorney general, who also declined to charge. The woman’s cousin was Johanna MacMaster, whom Kolodziej met in 2018 and learned of her allegations. In his lawsuit, Sean MacMaster alleged Kolodziej had a relationship with a woman in the Macomb County Prosecutor’s Office, his former employer. Kolodziej and Schipani are among the six being sued. Sean MacMaster had spent five months in jails in Oakland County and Florida, where he was working at the time of his arrest, when his case was dismissed. The scandal led to the dismissal of the Sean MacMaster case and the firing of a department investigator, Lauren Schipani, who also was involved in the Oakland County case. He was charged with two counts of misconduct in office in December and is scheduled for a June preliminary examination. Kolodziej resigned from Nessel’s office in September 2019 after he was confronted about allegations that he had an inappropriate relationship with the victim in a Mount Pleasant criminal sexual conduct case. When Johanna MacMaster later approached the Michigan State Police and then Center Line Police Department about the case, it was referred to the Department of Attorney General, where Assistant Attorney General Brian Kolodziej took the lead. She later brought her complaints to a Michigan State Police post in Lapeer and the FBI, both of which declined to investigate after speaking with Oakland County officials, according to the complaint. The Oakland County Sheriff’s Office, Child Protective Services and the Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office declined to bring charges against Sean MacMaster when Johanna MacMaster first brought her complaints to them in 2016.
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