Chatfield charges prompt new call to change campaign finance laws, will lawmakers listen?

Attorney General Dana Nessel has used high-profile public corruption probes her office has undertaken to demand greater transparency and accountability from Michigan's campaign finance system. In the latest charges brought by her office — this time against former state House Speaker Lee Chatfield — she again used the announcement to sound a clarion call for change.

"The Michigan Campaign Finance Act is effectively toothless, useless and utterly worthless as a deterrent to these crimes," Nessel said after announcing charges against the Levering Republican and his wife for allegedly carrying out an illegal scheme to fund his lavish lifestyle.

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