Big News, New Tools, and the Case That Won’t Stop. Michigan Institutional Accountability, June 7, 2026

First, the good news. I have accepted a position as a Major Case Unit Analyst for a major security company. It is the role I have been working toward for years and I am genuinely thrilled. It also means some things at Clutch Justice are going to look different going forward. The journalism stays. The tools stay. The games stay. Consulting is now routed through structured engagements and the Field Kit rather than open intake, which keeps everything consistent with my professional obligations in the new role.

Now here is everything else that just launched.

The Field Kit Is Live

The Field Kit is the paid courses and tools library at clutchjustice.com/field-kit/. Five email courses built from three years of Clutch investigations are live now: How to Read a Court Record, the Michigan Judicial Accountability Field Guide, Institutional Forensics 101, Legal AI Literacy, and more on the way. Courses from $39, research guides from $15. Use code CLUTCH25 for 25% off any course. One use per customer. Everything delivers to your inbox. No platform, no login, no app required.

Two New Games Launch This Week

Cold Case Crossword and Chain of Custody join The Docket and Clutch Connects in the Clutch Justice games library at clutchjustice.com/games. Every puzzle is built from public records and documented case histories. Nothing invented. Everything sourced. Free to play, no login required. Four games now live.

What the Record Shows: The Leitman Federal Case

Kevin Lindke filed a federal lawsuit challenging Michigan’s PPO statute in 2019. Over the six and a half years since, the case has produced four versions of the complaint, two of them filed at Judge Leitman’s own invitation. A denial of summary judgment that defense counsel argues runs against Sixth Circuit precedent. Continued proceedings after defense counsel filed sworn documentation that Lindke had multiple outstanding Michigan bench warrants and had been evading the state courts whose statute he was challenging for approximately two years.

Lindke turned himself in to Michigan authorities only when his continued fugitive status threatened the federal case’s survival. He is now incarcerated in St. Clair County on contempt. The federal case remains open. The victims have received nothing from six and a half years of federal constitutional litigation.

The investigation asks a specific question: what did the court’s repeated invitations cost, and whether anyone other than Lindke benefited from each decision to allow another amendment, another round of briefing, another opportunity to keep alive a challenge to the statute protecting the people Lindke had been documented harassing.

What the Record Shows: Michigan Attorney Discipline, May/June 2026

Five Michigan-licensed attorneys received discipline notices in May and June 2026. The report covers the nature of each action, the underlying conduct, and what the AGC record shows about how attorney accountability is functioning in the current cycle.

What the Record Shows: How Thorough Police Investigations Actually Are

Clearance rates measure arrests, not accuracy. The analysis this week examines the documented gap between what clearance rates are understood to mean and what the data shows about investigative thoroughness across American law enforcement. The McCollum wrongful conviction covered in Issue 007 is one version of that gap. Clearance rate: solved. Accuracy: wrong person.

What the Record Shows: The Triple Fraud Pattern

Three layers: inflate the insurance claim, conceal the internal failure that produced the loss, prosecute the employee whose conduct is most easily characterized as the cause. Each layer enables the next. The inflated claim requires the concealment. The concealment requires the prosecution. The prosecution redirects scrutiny. The piece maps how all three interact and what the record reveals when examined together.

What the Record Shows: The Bay of Jars

A discovery in Guanabara Bay produced evidence of pre-Columbian contact with the ancient Mediterranean world. The artifacts were suppressed. The researcher was discredited. The institutional mechanisms that foreclosed further investigation were a combination of Brazilian nationalist narrative and Catholic institutional interest in a particular historical account. The RRE installment documents what happened when the physical record conflicted with what powerful institutions needed to be true.

What This Issue Establishes

This is a bigger week than most. A dream job. A product launch. Two new games. And a federal case investigation that documents what six and a half years of judicial invitations to a plaintiff evading warrants actually costs. The throughline across all of it: the same analytical work that built the Leitman investigation is what the Field Kit teaches. The same records that built the games are what The Lab puts in your hands. The work scales. The record is still the source.

Also This Week: From The Lab