The leader of Michigan’s economic development agency is a “potential target” in the attorney general’s $20 million grant embezzlement investigation.

Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office applied that label to Michigan Economic Development Corporation CEO Quentin Messer Jr. in court filings this week, noting that investigators seized Messer’s phone.

The filing marks the first public admission by Nessel’s office that investigators are looking into other people, including MEDC leadership, in their probe into possible misuse of taxpayer money by businesswoman Fay Beydoun.

Beydoun ran Global Link International, a nonprofit business incubator she formed shortly after the Legislature approved a $20 million grant in the 2022-2023 budget for the nonprofit to attract international entrepreneurs t

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