Institutional Capture — Detroit Charter Network

The Banks enterprise does not just commit fraud. It captures institutions — installing loyalists, creating financial dependencies, and ensuring that the systems meant to protect the public instead protect the enterprise.

graph TB
    BANKS["<b>Brian Banks</b><br/>9 convictions · fake J.D."]

    subgraph SCHOOLS["🏫 SCHOOLS — Revenue Source"]
        PCA["Purpose Charter Academy"]
        MAC["MacDowell Prep"]
    end

    subgraph COURTS["⚖️ COURTS — Protection"]
        C3["Wayne 3rd Circuit"]
        C36["36th District"]
        PROB["Probate Court"]
    end

    subgraph POLITICS["🏛️ POLITICS — Authorization"]
        DPSCD["DPSCD Board"]
        TREASURER["County Treasurer"]
    end

    BANKS -->|"superintendent"| PCA
    BANKS -->|"superintendent"| MAC
    PCA -->|"cases filed in"| C3
    PCA -->|"cases filed in"| C36
    MAC -->|"cases filed in"| C3
    MAC -->|"cases filed in"| C36

    MILLER["Miller<br/>Board Chair"] -.->|"sits on"| C3
    MILLER -.->|"chairs board"| PCA
    YANCEY["Yancey<br/>Board Chair"] -.->|"sits on"| C36
    YANCEY -.->|"chairs board"| MAC
    YANCEY -.->|"paid $383.82"| BANKS

    AL_SAB["Aliyah Sabree<br/>MSU Law 2010"] -.->|"sits on"| C3
    AL_SAB -.->|"classmate"| BANKS
    A_SAB["Adam Sabree<br/>Metro Property"] -.->|"sits on"| C36
    S_PERK["Sean Perkins<br/>brother=Todd"] -.->|"sits on"| C36
    D_PERK["David Perkins<br/>Probate Chief"] -.->|"sits on"| PROB

    E_SAB["Eric Sabree<br/>Treasurer"] -->|"father of"| AL_SAB
    E_SAB -->|"father of"| A_SAB
    E_SAB -->|"chairs"| TREASURER
    TREASURER -.->|"tax foreclosure pipeline"| MAC

    MORELAND["Lamar Moreland<br/>Asst. AG"] -.->|"Vice Chair"| PCA
    L_JOHNSON["Latisha Johnson<br/>City Council"] -.->|"Secretary"| PCA

    GAY["Gay-Dagnogo"] -->|"authorized charters"| DPSCD
    DPSCD -->|"authorized"| PCA
    DPSCD -->|"authorized"| MAC

    BANKS -.->|"CBC events"| GAY
    BANKS -.->|"campaign vendor"| MILLER

    classDef person fill:#991b1b,stroke:#ef4444,color:#fecaca
    classDef judge fill:#312e81,stroke:#818cf8,color:#c7d2fe
    classDef school fill:#1e3a5f,stroke:#60a5fa,color:#bfdbfe
    classDef court fill:#44403c,stroke:#a8a29e,color:#e7e5e4
    classDef political fill:#14532d,stroke:#4ade80,color:#bbf7d0

    class BANKS person
    class MILLER,YANCEY,AL_SAB,A_SAB,S_PERK,D_PERK judge
    class PCA,MAC school
    class C3,C36,PROB court
    class GAY,E_SAB,MORELAND,L_JOHNSON political
  

The protection is structural, not coincidental. Every arrow is a documented public record connection. No single regulator sees the full web because each institution (schools, courts, campaign finance, LARA) operates in its own silo.

The Capture Pattern — Three Domains

See also: RICO Pattern — full enterprise structure.

1. Schools (Revenue Source)

Effect: Students are the product, not the beneficiaries. Money flows from state per-pupil funding through shell entities to enterprise principals.

2. Courts (Protection)

Effect: 4 judges in the same county system with demonstrable ties to the enterprise. Any case involving Banks, his schools, or his network risks landing before a captured judge.

Three of these judges sit on 36th District Court — the same court where Judge Andrea Bradley-Baskin was indicted in January 2026 for allegedly embezzling from incapacitated wards (no Banks connection; see Allied Cases).

Corroboration: Allied Cases — Bryant v. Miller independently identified Miller.

3. Political Offices (Authorization & Structural Conflicts) ✅ Verified: Board roster from purposecharteracademy.com, retrieved Sep 2026

Effect: Political allies authorize the charter schools and protect the revenue stream.

The Attorney General Conflict ✅ Verified: PCA board page lists 'Mr. Lamar Moreland — Asst. Attorney General, State of Michigan — Board Vice Chair'

Lamar Moreland, an Assistant Attorney General, serves as Vice Chair of Purpose Charter Academy’s board. The Michigan Attorney General’s office has jurisdiction over:

An AG employee governing Banks’ school creates a structural conflict with any potential investigation by the Attorney General’s office. This does not allege personal wrongdoing by Moreland — it documents an institutional conflict that investigators and the AG herself should address.

See: Political Enablers, CBC Week Events.

4. Financial System (Extraction)

Effect: Money flows from public schools through multiple shell entities, obscuring extraction.

5. Housing (Community Extraction)

Effect: The enterprise benefits from the housing distress its broader network helps perpetuate.

The Silo Problem 📄 Documented

Each institution sees only its piece:

This is by design. The enterprise operates across silos precisely because no single regulator sees the full picture.

Breaking the Silo

The federal packet — “Cash for Kids 2: Operation Detroit Plantation” — is the first document to present the full cross-institutional picture to all agencies simultaneously.

One civilian, pro se, pro bono, compiled what no single agency had assembled.

Independent Reporting

Primary Analytical Reference

• 📰 Clutch Justice : MacDowell: $15,217/student, 3% math proficiency — Documents the extraction model, board composition, and DPSCD authorization chain that constitute institutional capture
• 📰 Clutch Justice : The Proper Move Was Not to Get Involved — Pattern of judicial boundary violations; “A judge’s power is not personal property”
• 📰 Clutch Justice : FOIA and Your Michigan School Board — Legal roadmap for breaking the silo: how parents can FOIA charter school records

Secondary Sources

• 📰 Free Press : Back to Fool — Brian Banks — Original investigation into Banks’ criminal history (Aug 2023)
• 📰 WXYZ — 5-article Miller investigation series (gun, OWI, infant murder dismissal)

Verify (Source Data)

• LARA entity records: 🏛️ LARA MiBusiness
• Campaign finance: transparencyusa.org, 🏛️ MI Campaign Finance
• School authorization: DPSCD board records
• PCA Board: purposecharteracademy.com/boardofdirectors — Miller (Chair), AG Moreland (Vice Chair), Council Member Johnson (Secretary)
• Judicial connections: Judicial Cover
• Allied corroboration: Allied Cases — PACER 2:26-cv-10917

All sources are public records.