The former Michigan Democratic Party chairman said Monday that he filed an ethics complaint against Macomb County Prosecutor Peter Lucido, alleging Lucido allowed a former Sterling Heights City Council candidate to use county property, buildings and offices to create photos for political campaign purposes in violation of the county’s ethics ordinance.
But Lucido told the Free Press: “It’s all untrue. Every bit of his allegations, all untrue.”
Mark Brewer, of Clinton Township, said Monday he filed a complaint with the Macomb County Ethics Board alleging Lucido violated the general standards of conduct section and subsections in the county’s ethics ordinance.
In his complaint, Brewer alleges Lucido allowed former Sterling Heights City Council candidate Paul Manni to use the county property to create photos for political campaign purposes and asks that Lucido be punished as provided in the county’s ethics ordinance.
‘How do I know what they’re gonna use these pictures for?’
Lucido said he met Manni “one time,” and Manni told him he was in the seminary and was going to become a priest. He said Manni could have been in his office, “one time, maybe. If he was, he might have come up to my office. And if he took a picture in my office, a lot of people do. So, I mean, that’s all that would have happened. But the county property and this or that, I don’t know where he gets off sayin’ that. So, he can check his facts, but that is totally untrue.”