Unredacted FBI Complaint and Interview Reports on Dr. Petrou and Dr. Foerster Based on a Complaint by Maria Petrou, Dr. Petrou’s Mother — University of Michigan FOIA (Jan–Feb 2018)
In September 2019, the University of Michigan, responding to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, produced unredacted FBI records dated January–February 2018 concerning Dr. Myria Petrou and Dr. Bradley Foerster, after both had resigned from the University.
Among the records produced by the University was an FBI report prominently marked “Do Not Distribute.” The University nevertheless possessed the report in unredacted form and produced it in response to FOIA.
The September 2019 production was also the first time Dr. Petrou and Dr. Foerster became aware that Maria Petrou, Dr. Myria Petrou’s mother, had separately contacted the FBI.
What the University Produced
The production included FBI records arising from a January 26, 2018 complaint submitted by Maria Petrou and a February 1, 2018 follow-up FBI interview of Maria Petrou. The resulting FBI reports are dated January 31 and February 2, 2018. The January 31 report carries the “Do Not Distribute” marking.
What the FBI Records Document
Maria Petrou, Dr. Myria Petrou’s mother, is a retired high-school mathematics teacher and principal from Cyprus. On January 26, 2018, she contacted FBI Special Agent Sue Lucas at the FBI’s Ann Arbor office concerning her daughter, Dr. Myria Petrou, her son-in-law, Dr. Bradley Foerster, and an individual she identified as “Shonda.” Special Agent Lucas subsequently interviewed Maria Petrou again on February 1, 2018.
A central subject of Maria Petrou’s FBI reporting was “Shonda,” whom Maria described as a woman from Detroit who was controlling or influencing Dr. Petrou and Dr. Foerster. The FBI records memorialize Maria’s account of this individual and her concerns about Shonda’s involvement with the couple.
The identity and institutional treatment of “Shonda” later became the subject of University of Michigan FOIA Request 260036, through which Dr. Myria Petrou sought University documents or investigations concerning “Shonda” or “MS.” More than a year after the request, following two appeals and additional processing extensions, the requested records had not been produced as of September 2026.
The timing places these reports within a concentrated period of FBI activity. Maria Petrou contacted Special Agent Sue Lucas on January 26; on January 30, Dr. Petrou and Dr. Foerster separately appeared at the FBI Detroit Field Office; and on February 1, Lucas conducted the follow-up interview with Maria Petrou. The resulting FBI reports are dated January 31 and February 2, 2018.
Dr. Petrou and Dr. Foerster were unaware at the time that Maria Petrou had separately contacted the FBI. They first learned of those contacts when the University of Michigan produced the unredacted FBI records in response to FOIA in September 2019.
The “Shonda/MS” allegation also appears in Dr. Bradley Foerster’s May 27, 2019 letter to Dr. Eva Feldman, in which Dr. Foerster expressly denied that any such individual provided him information, controlled him, or exercised influence over him. That letter was later forwarded through Michigan Medicine Security to the Ann Arbor Police Department and became associated with previously undisclosed UMPD/DPSS Incident Report #1990302701.
The records therefore preserve a specific part of the early-2018 federal record: Maria Petrou reporting an individual she called “Shonda” to FBI Special Agent Sue Lucas, the FBI memorializing those reports, and the University of Michigan later possessing and producing the resulting FBI records in unredacted form.
University of Michigan FOIA Production
The following pages are drawn from the University of Michigan’s September 2019 FOIA production and are presented here as received.
University of Michigan FOIA response concerning responsive FBI records.
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FBI Reports — January–February 2018
The following FBI records were produced by the University of Michigan in response to the 2019 FOIA request and are reproduced in full for reference.
FBI report dated January 31, 2018 — marked “Do Not Distribute.”
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FBI follow-up report dated February 2, 2018.
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Selected Reporting
- Bradley Foerster Submits 140-Exhibit, 1,121-Page Documentary Chronology to FBI for Supervisory Review of the Investigation Involving Dr. Bradley Foerster, Dr. Myria Petrou, and Duaa Altaee
- From One FBI File to a Legislative Proposal: Peter and Maria Foerster Ask Senator Van Hollen's Office and Congressman Jamie Raskin to Consider a Uniform Administrative Framework for Federal Investigations
- Eva Feldman Documentary Chronology: 139 Exhibits on NIH R01NS082304, University Proceedings, and Federal Investigation — No Response Received
- Bradley Foerster and Myria Petrou Send Ann Arbor Officials Documentary Chronology on AAPD and Related Federal Investigations — No Response Received
- Timothy Lynch Documentary Chronology: 63 Exhibits on University of Michigan Office of General Counsel, University Investigations, and Law Enforcement — No Response Received
- Bradley Foerster and Myria Petrou Documentary Chronology: 8 Exhibits Document More Than Two Years of Efforts to Trace Bank of Ann Arbor's $1.4 Million Sheriff's Sale Credit Bid — No Response Received
Brad Foerster, MD PhD
Brad Foerster is a FOIA advocate documenting requests, transparency disputes, and accountability investigations involving public agencies, universities, police oversight, and Russia-Gate related inquiries. His work compiles original documents, timelines, and analysis of public records and institutional responses. Brad is also a board-certified radiologist, author of Town & Gown, and has published over 40 peer-reviewed articles. Brad lives in Potomac, Maryland with his family and is a member of the Montgomery County Medical Society and the Takoma Park U.S. & World History Book Club.