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Michigan City Council Member With Violent Past Charged With Election Fraud 51%
By M.D. Kittle73%
7/24/2026, 11:21:24 AM
Keywords: Attorney General Dana Nesse, Clean Slate Act, Councilmember Jerri Winfrey Carter, Election Fraud, Election Integrity, Election Law False Swearing, Elections, Fbi Director Kash Patel, Flint, Flint City Council, Gov Gretchen Whitmer, Leon El Alamin, Made Institute, Michigan, President Donald Trump, Secretary Of State Jocelyn Benson, Sen Cory Booker
BS Summary: This article contains 24 faulty reasoning types, including Anecdotal, Confirmation Bias, and Unattributed Quote, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 23.5% saturation with 274 hits. Analysis detected 1,542 faulty-reasoning hits from 1,166 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 50.5% and a BS Rank of 51% (10,568 of 21,198 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 50.10% of the article peer group.
Flint, Michigan, City Council Member Leon El-Alamin, seems to believe honesty is the best policy.
“I deal with a lot of different types of people.
I’m always me regardless of who they are.
Whether it’s the governor or mayor, I’m still going to be honest and tell you the truth of what’s going on, and the things that you can do to help,” El-Alamin said in a profile produced by Muslims for American Progress (MAP) Project.
But the community activist and face of Democrat Gov.
Gretchen Whitmer’s sweeping criminal record expungement program finds himself allegedly at odds with the truth, once again in trouble with the law — this time facing election fraud charges amid his re-election campaign.
That may be the least of the former drug dealer’s problems in a swing state notorious for election integrity issues.
‘Political Distraction’
El-Alamin is free on a $5,000 personal recognizance bond after his arraignment earlier this month, according to mlive.com.
He was expected to appear in court for his preliminary hearing on Thursday.
If convicted of the charges against him, Flint’s 1st Ward councilman could be sentenced to a maximum five years in prison, and he’d lose his place on the November ballot.
El-Alamin, 45, stands accused of lying on his affidavit in April 2025, claiming he resided within Flint’s city limits to qualify for the council seat.
He did not, Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton told ABC 12 in Flint.
Instead, El-Alamin was residing in nearby Mt.
Morris Township, residents and others told police.
A tenant at the Flint address listed on the councilman’s affidavit also told investigators that El-Alamin did not live there, but that he was the landlord of the property.
Prosecutors allege El-Alamin made a false affidavit, or swore falsely under oath, to qualify as a candidate for elective office: pic.twitter.com/aTSR8qAGjD
— WNEM TV5 News (@WNEMTV5news) July 14, 2026
The official charge is election law false swearing, or perjury, and it comes nearly two years after Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s office received a complaint accusing El-Alamin of wrongdoing.
He did not return The Federalist’s message seeking comment left at the MADE Institute, the nongovernmental organization the ex-con launched after getting out of prison.
MADE stands for Money, Attitude, Direction and Education, and its mission ostensibly is to help “returned citizens” (ex-cons) and at-risk youth find employment, education, and housing.
The councilman did tell MLive.com in a statement that he is “confident that he will be cleared of any wrongdoing.”
“I have always believed in the rule of law and due process,” he said, adding that he will continue to defend himself through the legal process.
“Whether intentional or not, these repeated accusations have become a political distraction that shifts attention away from the real issues our residents and neighbors are facing,” El-Alamin said in the statement.
‘Brutal and Terrifying Assault’
The council member who runs a $1 million nonprofit dedicated to providing “comprehensive non-violence prevention programs” also awaits an October trial on a felony charge of “assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder” and a misdemeanor domestic violence charge.
Mt.
Morris Township police arrested him a little over a year ago on allegations that he choked and caused lacerations on his then-girlfriend’s face after she called 911 asking for help, according to previous court testimony.
El-Alamin has pleaded not guilty to the charges, which include a habitual offender charge.
Councilmember Jerri Winfrey-Carter has called for his removal from the council.
“The disturbing and detailed statement from the survivor outlines a brutal and terrifying assault, including choking, dragging, punching, and threats of further violence,” Winfrey-Carter wrote of her Facebook page.
“Her courage to speak out in the face of trauma is commendable, and I stand with her.”
‘Fast Money,’ Hard Time
The former cocaine dealer was sentenced in 2003 to a minimum of 12 years in prison on drug and weapons charges, a past he has made very public on his website.
“After graduating from high school, the allure of earning fast money made Leon start hustling drugs,” his bio states.
A few years later, he ended up in a coma following a shootout over a drug turf war, according to the blurb.
“The incident led to his eventual arrest and imprisonment on drug and weapons charges.
At the age of 30, Leon was released from prison after serving part of a 12-20-year sentence,” the bio states.
El-Alamin went into prison as Leon Wilson, his birth name.
While there he converted to Islam and changed his last name.
He was a beneficiary of Whitmer’s Clean Slate Act, which wipes out criminal records of ex-convicts like El-Alamin.
The far-left governor snapped a photo with him in 2024.
It’s on his Facebook page.
The page also features a photo he took with Sen.
Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Rep.
Kristen McDonald Rivet, D-Mich.
Whitmer’s office did not return The Federalist’s request for comment.
El-Alamin’s election fraud case moves forward as Michigan again lands back in the national spotlight for an election integrity scandal from the 2020 presidential election.
Last week in his nationwide address, President Donald Trump said he asked FBI Director Kash Patel to “fully” investigate a leftist voter registration scheme involving potentially thousands of fraudulent signatures.
Trump announced that he had declassified intelligence documents that detail the FBI’s investigation at the time.
The records offer a window into the massive voter registration fraud operation in Muskegon, Michigan, that tracked as many as 10,000 suspicious or forged registration forms submitted in the weeks before the election.
‘Clearly Fraudulent’
As The Federalist reported, one former employer told FBI agents that her bosses required her to submit “two to three applications to get paid.”
“Most of the employees submitted the registrations with false information because it was easy money,” the former form wrangler told investigators, according to one email.
Another canvasser told FBI agents that she knew of other canvassers “who would trade marijuana and money for voter registration applications.”
One former employee estimated she submitted 100 fake voter registration applications.
Nobody was ever held accountable.
In 2023, Republicans in the Michigan House of Representative introduced articles of impeachment against Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, who, according to the lawmakers, “violated her constitutional oath of office by failing to faithfully discharge the duties of her office.”
Nessel opted not to prosecute.
“Despite the fact that an October 2020 investigation found evidence that an organization submitted clearly fraudulent voter registration applications to the Muskegon City Clerk, Attorney General Nessel has failed to charge those responsible for forging and filing these documents,” the resolution stated.
The Michigan State Police, which worked with Nessel’s office on the state probe into the fraud allegations, covered for the controversial attorney general.
“[N]one of the irregular voter registrations in Muskegon resulted in voters receiving absentee ballots, any resulting registrations have been voided, and there is no expected impact on any election,” the law enforcement agency said in a statement.
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