LAKE COUNTY — Michigan’s Attorney General warning about a possible government shut-down and how steep cuts to her office could affect one Northern Michigan county that, right now, has no prosecutor.

The House Republican budget plan includes trimming a little more than $38 million from the state Attorney General’s office.

She said that would force her to cut more than 15 percent of her workforce, that’s about 96 full-time workers.

Nessel said if that happens, she won’t have the staff to cover the prosecutor’s office in Lake County.

“We’re in Lake County right now. As of October 1st, we will no longer have the staff in order to handle the prosecutions for Lake County. It will be literally like the purge there. They will have no prosecutors in Lake County if this budget actually gets pass

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