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The Ambrose Sullivan Reading List
Primary case file documents, court and business entity records, campaign finance filings, and Clutch Justice’s reporting on the death of Ambrose Sullivan and the political money that has followed the driver’s family since. Organized in recommended reading order.
How to use this list: Start with the primary records in Section 01 so you can check the reporting’s claims against the underlying case file, court docket, and public filings directly. Then read “Connected” in Section 02, which draws all of it together. Section 03 points to the geographic reference map showing where the crash and its aftermath took place.
01
Primary Case File and Public Records
The underlying sheriff’s report, court docket, business entity filings, and campaign finance disclosures, not summaries of them.
1
Livingston County Sheriff’s Office Case 16-04295
Primary Document
The original incident report and Deputy Harmison’s supplemental report, including the airbag control module download, the nighttime visibility reconstruction, the Robotic Leica Total Station scene survey, and the AT&T cell tower GPS analysis.
Read especially
The airbag module data showing the driver braked before impact, and the visibility study’s 10-foot clearance finding.
2
Ambrose Sullivan v. David Vega and Vega Group Inc., Case 2017-0000029572-NI
Court Record
The full MiCOURT civil docket: the motion for alternate service, both defaults, the June 2018 default judgment, the 2018 debtor examinations, and the 2020 to 2021 garnishment filings that mark the judgment’s last recorded activity.
3
Michigan LARA Business Entity Records: Vega Group Inc., Vega Entertainment LLC (x2), Vega Media LLC
Business Record
The registration, lapse, and re-formation dates for all four entities, their registered agents, and the shared P.O. Box 1164, Brighton, Michigan mailing address documented across the filings.
4
Michigan SOS Campaign Finance Filings: Committee to Elect Gina Johnsen and Gina Majority Fund
Public Filing
The itemized expenditure records showing all payments to Vega Media, the Vega Fund, and the Andy Shaver Campaign, and the Vega Fund’s own contributor list.
5
Sullivan-Vega Law Enforcement Referral Report
Primary Document
The formal referral prepared for law enforcement review: the complete entity-cycling table, the full $81,690 campaign income accounting, the documented financial network around the sentencing, and specific recommendations on the cell tower record, the deputy’s undisclosed toxicology status, and possible accessory-after-the-fact and alter-ego theories.
02
Clutch Justice Reporting
The investigation that draws the forensic record, the court file, and the political money together.
6
Clutch Justice
The full investigation: the forensic record of the crash, the Corrigan and Metz financial network around the judge and prosecutor, the Vega entity cycling, and the documented campaign payments to Vega Media. Updated after original publication with additional documentation from Jason Sullivan on the brother’s-apartment route, the car-washing witnesses, and David Vega’s contact with his mother the night of the crash.
03
Geographic Reference
Where the crash and its aftermath took place, mapped against the Whitmore Lake corridor.
7
Clutch Justice
An interactive map of the Whitmore Lake Road corridor: the McDonald’s where Ambrose clocked out, the crash site near the Corrigan Oil entrance, Jeffrey Vega’s warehouse where the Corvette was concealed, and the other locations named in the case file, plotted against each other.
A Note on Sourcing
Every claim in this reading list and in the accompanying timeline and Who’s Who reference is sourced to a named case file, court docket, business filing, campaign finance disclosure, or Clutch Justice report. David Vega is convicted only of failing to stop at the scene of an accident resulting in death. No other individual or entity named in this library has been charged with or convicted of a crime in connection with Ambrose Sullivan’s death.
Compiled by Rita Williams for Clutch Justice, clutchjustice.com. This reading list accompanies the Ambrose Sullivan research library and is provided free, with no signup required, for research use. Verify all claims against the primary documents before relying on them.