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From: Wendy Beal <tplotut@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 12:10 PM
Subject: Charlevoix County baseball coach Allen Telgenhof' suitability to mentor area youth
To: allisonn@rayder.net, cattg@rayder.net, pearsallk@rayder.net, pearsallm@rayder.net, rejosephlaw@gmail.com, vsnyder@charlevoixlaw.com, lmartinc@rayder.net
To the Char-Em School Board,
I am writing to you regarding you current baseball coach Allen Telgenhof and his suitability as a role model for impressionable youth. I do not think that you could have picked a worse example for our students to emulate.
I am part of a blog project exposing corruption in government and elsewhere and Mr. Telgenhof, in my opinion, is unfit to serve as prosecutor or coach.
I recently submitted a FOIA request to Char-Em and received a packet of information from the district. It was revealed that Mr. Telgenhof nearly involved the school district in litigation over some team shirts that weren't paid for. Hi ha ha attitude about this serious matter should put the school board on alert that something isn't quite right with this guy.
We have blogged extensively about what we see as deficiencies in Mr. Telgenhof's character. Examples of this would include two calls to the Telgenhof's residence regarding domestic violence - one in Antrim County (nobody was arrested) and again in Charlevoix County. Erin House, special prosecutor for the Attorney General in Antrim County was assigned to investigate ,but apparently she didn't think there was enough evidence to prosecute Mr. Telgenhof. (?) You be the judge.
Just because he didn't get in trouble it doesn't mean that he didn't do anything wrong. See Mrs. Telgenhof's handwritten statement to police.
On May 21, 2011, Telgenhof’s wife called 911 to report domestic violence on Allen Telgenhof.
His wife’s handwritten statement to the police:
“I was sitting on the livingroom couch and Al came in the living room accusing me of texting an old boyfriend on another telephone. He tackled me on the couch and held me down preventing me from getting my cell phone. He was reaching in my shirt and down in the couch trying to find a cell phone. I tried many, many times to get up and to scream, but Allen kept shoving his hand over my mouth to prevent me from screaming for help. I could not breath. When he would take his hand off my mouth, I would again scream and he put it back on again. He also bit me at least three times. I told him I wanted my phone to call 911 and he prevented me from doing that. He told me he knew the law and that as long as I wasn’t in the process of making a cell call that he would not be in trouble for not letting me have my phone to call 911. I tried to get the phone by kicking it toward me with my foot, but was unable. Many times I was unable to breath. He told me no one would help me. He finally let me up, but would not give me my cell phone to make a 911call. I finally used the house phone.” From the FOIA Request
The 911 tape https://docs.google.com/
His wife’s handwritten statement to the police:
“I was sitting on the livingroom couch and Al came in the living room accusing me of texting an old boyfriend on another telephone. He tackled me on the couch and held me down preventing me from getting my cell phone. He was reaching in my shirt and down in the couch trying to find a cell phone. I tried many, many times to get up and to scream, but Allen kept shoving his hand over my mouth to prevent me from screaming for help. I could not breath. When he would take his hand off my mouth, I would again scream and he put it back on again. He also bit me at least three times. I told him I wanted my phone to call 911 and he prevented me from doing that. He told me he knew the law and that as long as I wasn’t in the process of making a cell call that he would not be in trouble for not letting me have my phone to call 911. I tried to get the phone by kicking it toward me with my foot, but was unable. Many times I was unable to breath. He told me no one would help me. He finally let me up, but would not give me my cell phone to make a 911call. I finally used the house phone.” From the FOIA Request
The 911 tape https://docs.google.com/
I do believe this goes beyond politics. Schools need to be careful who they invite in and provide forum to. By bringing him into the classroom you condone his behavior and are providing the kids with a very poor example of an attorney and public official.
Thank you for you attention to this serious matter.Please forward to any board members that I may have overlooked.
Sincerely,
Wendy L. Beal
P.S. More links about Mr. Telgenhof writing several bad checks while prosecutor, was sued by a former landlord, wrote a rubber check to the storage facility and then cut the owners lock off and took his stuff out of the unit and only paid up under threat of legal action. This is just what we know about. I am sure that there is much more.
Additional information at this link: http://
The email between Telgenhof and the school board about the shirts can be viewed at this link:
You do realize that the Char-Em Board and Charlevoix Public School Board are two entirely different organizations right?
ReplyDeleteWe are aware and sent this email to the addresses I found during my search of the documents that I acquired through a FOIA request.
DeleteI hope that our readers get more out of the information we post than every typo,etc.
We had hoped to make the public and parents aware of Telgenhof's true nature. We do not feel that he is a good role model for children or qualified to be prosecuting attorney. Way too many skeletons in his closet.