GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – The notes from a state investigator looking into embezzlement allegations against Traci Kornak show she charged bulk purchases to an elderly woman’s account but only gave the woman a single roll of toilet paper.

That’s just one of the details that emerged from a House Oversight Committee hearing investigating Kornak’s role as the court-appointed conservator for an elderly mentally challenged woman named Rose Burd. The committee hearing testimony came from the notes of a State of Michigan investigator with Adult Protective Services. Last week, Kornak was criminally charged with embezzlement by the Kent County Prosecutor’s Office.

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An accounting firm found as much as $419,640 in questionable charges by Kornak during her duties as a conservator. Burd died in April 2025.

The investigation showed how Burd’s caregivers said in June 2023 that they noticed that receipts from Costco showed bulk items being purchased, but that Burd only received a single roll of toilet paper or paper towel. They noticed the same thing with bulk purchases of shampoo, body wash, wet wipes and frozen food.

The investigation also showed receipts from Costco that Burd had paid for that included noodles and alcohol. The caregivers told the state investigator that Burd didn’t drink alcohol and had no stove and didn’t eat noodles. The caretaker also said that many of the things on the Costco receipt couldn’t be found in Burd’s apartment at an independent care facility.

Kornak was cleared in two separate investigations by the Attorney General’s office of any wrongdoing. According to testimony at the House Oversight Committee, when Kornak was investigated by the Kent County Sheriff’s Department, she immediately told them she had already been cleared by the AG’s office. Kornak served on Attorney General Dana Nessel’s transition team and was also the treasurer for the state Democratic Party. Nessel was accused of having a conflict of interest in the case because she asked for updates and had communications with her staff about the investigation into Kornak, who had told people she was best friends with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.