The CEO of Michigan's economic development agency — Quentin Messer Jr. — may be a target of an embezzlement investigation into how a metro Detroit businesswoman spent a state grant intended to support a business accelerator, according to a recent court filing from Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel's office.

The Michigan Economic Development Corporation is a quasi-governmental agency housed within the Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity that administers public subsidy programs for companies to lure jobs to the state. State lawmakers over the years have also charged the agency with executing a slew of smaller grants, including the $20 million in state funding approved in 2022 for Fay Beydoun and her nonprofit Global Link International now at the center of the attorney general

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