Tenisha Renee Yancey was born on August 29,1976 and formerly served as a Democratic member of the Michigan House of Representatives, where she represented the 1st House District.
19 Facts About Tenisha Yancey
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Tenisha Yancey is the niece of former United Auto Workers Vice President, Jimmy Settles.
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Tenisha Yancey worked for the Wayne County Executive's office and the Wayne County Land Bank prior to receiving her Juris Doctor degree in 2012.
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Over an eighteen month period, Tenisha Yancey was charged with stalking, felonious use of a firearm, vandalism and trying to use her car to harm Latasha Steele and twice convicted of retail fraud, once in Kalamazoo and again in Battle Creek for shoplifting items from stores and trying to return them for cash.
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Approximately six months later, Tenisha Yancey returned to Detroit, and was charged with stalking Steele and firing a gun into the home of Steele's mother.
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Tenisha Yancey stayed in the middle of the street in the car and fired from the car and just took off.
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Records show that Tenisha Yancey pleaded guilty to stalking in August 1995 and served two years' probation.
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Later in 1997, Tenisha Yancey was found guilty for failing to stop at the scene of a property damage accident by the same Wayne County court and sentenced to one year of probation.
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On May 3,2022, Leigh Reed-Pratt filed a lawsuit in the Michigan Court of Claims, seeking to get Tenisha Yancey thrown off the 2022 Primary Election ballot for campaign finance violations and for violating residency requirements.
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Reed-Pratt's lawsuit asserted that Tenisha Yancey should be bounced, too, claiming that Tenisha Yancey's failure to respond to queries from the Secretary of State amounted to overdue campaign paperwork.
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On May 4,2022, one day after Reed-Pratt filed her lawsuit, Tenisha Yancey transferred ownership of her home to her son Jaylen.
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Approximately one week later, Tenisha Yancey filed paperwork to rescind her PRE.
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Tenisha Yancey then presented Harper Woods officials with a Quit Claim Deed transferring ownership of her home to herself and her son Jaylen.
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However, during an investigation, Tenisha Yancey's neighbors told Elrick that Jaylen isn't living in the home either.
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Neighbors told Elrick that they saw strangers coming and going from the residence, because Tenisha Yancey used the property as an Air BnB.
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Tenisha Yancey was elected to the Harper Woods School Board on November 8,2016.
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Tenisha Yancey had no children attending school in the Harper Woods School District, but cited her experience in the court system as making her qualified to serve on the Board.
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Sossi, a Harper Woods resident, won the vote in Grosse Pointe Woods, Grosse Pointe Shores and Harper Woods, while Tenisha Yancey took the Detroit vote.
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Tenisha Yancey ran with the strategic and financial support of her childhood friend, Brian Banks.