An Oakland County businessman facing up to 10 years in federal prison for bribing Rick Johnson, the former chairman of Michigan’s medical marijuana licensing board, deserves a break for implicating the powerful bureaucrat, federal prosecutors said Thursday.

Prosecutors credited West Bloomfield businessman John Dawood Dalaly for providing substantial assistance and implicating others in the largest public corruption scandal in the state’s capital in a generation. They said Dalaly gave investigators a first-hand account of bribes paid to Johnson, a Republican former House speaker who was chairman of the licensing board from May 2017 through April 2019.They suggested that advisory guidelines call for a sentence of no more than 37 months in prison. Grand Rapids U.S. District Judge Jane Beckering is scheduled to sentence Dalaly on Sept. 14 in federal court in Grand Rapids and can ignore the guidelines.

They suggested that advisory guidelines call for a sentence of no more than 37 months in prison. Grand Rapids U.S. District Judge Jane Beckering is scheduled to sentence Dalaly on Sept. 14 in federal court in Grand Rapids and can ignore the guidelines.

The request provides the first insight into how a group stand to benefit for cooperating with federal prosecutors in unraveling a corruption scandal that, so far, has not yielded new criminal charges. The formal request also shows the lengths to which Dalaly has cooperated, meeting with investigators repeatedly since October and as recently as early August. [Read More @ The Detroit News]