LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – Records related to the investigation into embattled former Michigan House Speaker Lee Chatfield, who is under investigation for alleged sexual abuse of his sister-in-law starting when she was 15, and for possible financial misconduct while in office, have been blocked by Attorney General Dana Nessel.

According to a Wednesday Detroit Free Press article, Nessel’s office “wants to restrict public access to search warrant records in its investigation of…Chatfield, arguing the documents should remain shielded even though the Detroit Free Press and Bridge Michigan won a judge’s order unsealing them.”

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The article goes on to say that Nessel’s refusal to release the documents comes after both the Detroit Free Press and Bridge Michigan “persuaded an Ingham County district judge earlier this month to unseal a series of search warrants and affidavits pertaining to the state’s criminal probe of Chatfield.”

The Detroit Free Press has alleged that police investigators as well as Nessel’s office have pushed back against both media outlets, obtaining what they say is “indefinite suppression of those documents [and that] releasing them would jeopardize their case.”

This is not the first time an official in the Whitmer administration has withheld documents from the public, despite a court’s ruling otherwise.

Earlier this year, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson finally released FOIA documents four years after the initial submission by Michigan Rising Action and the order from two courts.

In addition, investigators are also looking into alleged financial misconduct while Chatfield served in Lansing.

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Rebekah Chatfield, Lee Chatfield’s sister-in-law and wife of his brother, field a report with Lansing police detailing the allegations in late 2021.