AG Schuette Staff Using Personal E-mail on State Time?

Despite an ongoing lawsuit, it appears high-level staffers within Attorney General Bill Schuette’s office are still using personal e-mail during work hours, in possible violation of state law.

The Great Lakes Beacon has obtained an e-mail sent by Schuette’s Director of Public Affairs, Rusty Hills, from his personal Gmail account, sent during work hours after the attorney general held a press conference announcing new charges in his office’s Flint Water Crisis investigation, this time against Department of Health and Human Services Director Nick Lyon, and the state’s Chief Medical Executive, Eden Wells, among others, for their alleged roles.

Hills, who has previously served as Schuette’s campaign manager, sent an e-mail on June 14th to “Interested Parties” roughly two hours after Schuette announced the charges in a press conference. And while Schuette has not yet declared himself a candidate of any sort, he is widely seen as a potential contender for the GOP’s gubernatorial race in 2018.

Though the content of the e-mail tracks Schuette’s Flint messaging, the fact that Hills appears to have used his personal Gmail account for the matter raises many questions: Who received the e-mail? Was it political or campaign-related? If so, why is Hills cultivating Schuette donors and/or campaign staff during work hours at taxpayer expense? And if the e-mail was about state business, why wasn’t a government e-mail account used?

Read more: http://greatlakesbeacon.org/2017/06/19/schuette-staff-using-personal-e-mail-on-state-time/