Hail To The Victims – FOIA & Government Transparency Archive

The University of Michigan has confirmed possession of an FBI-generated record concerning Dr. Bradley Foerster and/or Dr. Myria Petrou but has withheld the record in full . The response leaves Dr. Foerster and Dr. Petrou with one fact: the record exists . The University knows the record’s subject and contents; Dr. Foerster and Dr. Petrou do not. That information asymmetry is the reason for a series of focused FOIA requests. Rather than speculate about the withheld record, Dr. Foerster and Dr. Petrou are testing possible subjects one at a time. On October 27, 2026, Dr. Foerster requested FBI-generated records concerning harassment, cyberbullying, stalking, intimidating or threatening communications, repeated or unwanted communications, and malicious use of telecommunications involving Dr. Foerster and/or Dr. Petrou. The category was selected because harassment allegations or characterizations previously arose in two documented matters . Dr. Foers...

On October 23, 2026, Dr. Bradley Foerster asked University of Michigan Vice President and General Counsel Patricia Petrowski to state the University’s legal position on two Hall Render reports used against Dr. Foerster during the Bylaw 5.09 proceedings. Later that evening, Dr. Foerster forwarded the complete correspondence and four Hall Render documents to Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Attorney General Dana Nessel, and Washtenaw County Prosecutor Eli Savit. Dr. Foerster asked the three officials to determine whether the record warranted investigation, independent review, referral, reopening of the University proceedings, or other corrective action. Although Petrowski was not the University’s lead counsel during the 2018 proceedings, the University later confirmed that records concerning Dr. Foerster and Dr. Petrou existed within Petrowski’s files or those of her staff for 2018 and 2019. The University withheld those records in full under attorney-client privilege, le...

On October 24 and 25, 2026, Dr. Bradley Foerster and Dr. Myria Petrou placed the same unresolved documentary record before the University of Michigan, Michigan authorities, and Department of Justice counsel. The sequence was direct: Dr. Foerster and Dr. Petrou asked the University to explain the University’s actions, asked Michigan authorities to investigate the unreconciled financial record, and asked DOJ counsel whether 16 pages still withheld in Dr. Foerster’s pending FOIA litigation could help explain how the records fit together. A Town-and-Gown Record The record crosses institutional lines. The Ann Arbor Police Department (AAPD) opened a criminal investigation of Dr. Foerster and Dr. Petrou and obtained search warrants in February 2017 over a dispute that the Washtenaw County Prosecutor’s Office described approximately one year later as clearly a civil matter. After execution of the search warrants, Bank of Ann Arbor stopped accepting payments from Dr. Foer...

On October 24, 2026, Dr. Bradley Foerster submitted a complaint to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General seeking independent review of two investigations that the University of Michigan Office of the Vice President and General Counsel assigned to Hall Render in 2017 . One investigation addressed radiology medical-billing concerns reported by Drs. Paul Cronin, Aine Kelly, Myria Petrou, and Bradley Foerster. The other addressed concerns that Dr. Foerster and Dr. Petrou reported about the performance and administration of Dr. Foerster’s NIH grant, R01NS082304. The HHS-OIG complaint asks whether Hall Render adequately investigated the reported concerns, whether Hall Render used protected reporting activity to discredit the reporting faculty members, and how the University later used Hall Render’s findings against Dr. Foerster. This post publishes the records at the center of those questions. Two Unsigned Reports Labele...

On October 24, 2026, Dr. Bradley Foerster submitted a complaint to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General concerning the University of Michigan and Michigan Medicine. In 2017, the University’s Office of the Vice President and General Counsel retained Hall Render to conduct two investigations. The medical-billing investigation arose from concerns reported by Drs. Paul Cronin, Aine Kelly, Myria Petrou, and Bradley Foerster. The NIH-grant investigation arose from concerns reported by Dr. Foerster and Dr. Petrou regarding the performance and administration of NIH grant R01NS082304. Hall Render produced two unsigned attorney-work-product reports. Every page of both reports carried the label “DRAFT.” Read the complete Hall Render reports and executive summaries, including the substantially redacted recommendations. Despite requests from Dr. Foerster to then–Vice President and General Counsel Timothy Lynch and Associate Vi...