Courser resigned from his seat in the House of Representatives on September 11 and Gamrat was expelled by her colleagues the same day.
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She posted a message on Facebook Monday night using words such as “intimidating” and “disturbing” when describing the anonymous texts she says threatened to expose her affair with Todd Courser.
In a statement, Prosecutor Tim Turkelson said an investigation confirmed Joe Gamrat with the help of a work friend was motivated to end the ongoing affair between his wife and Courser which does not align with criminal extortion.
Apparently, the prosecutor, the legislators who forced him to resign and the voters who rejected his bid for reelection earlier this month disagree.
Courser and Gamrat’s staff was asked to participate in the shenanigans to preemptively “inoculate the herd” from revelations about the affair.
The state police’s investigation indicates Joe Gamrat lied to investigators twice and later evaded requests for a follow-up.
The pair were caught up in a sex scandal and freakish cover-up in which Courser admitted to sending out an anonymous fake e-mail in which he claimed that he was a sexual deviant addicted to porn who paid for sex with men outside of bars in Lansing.
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“As much as I was frustrated with Joe Gamrat’s dishonesty in his statements to the police … obviously he was trying to stop his wife from having an affair”, Turkelson told The Detroit News.
