Jeffrey Brohn

Jeffrey Brohn was a Michigan politician.
Political life
Floyd J. McCree, the Genesee County Registar of Deeds, died before the 1988 election for which Brohn had filed to run against in the primary. Thus leaving Brohn as the only remaining candidate for the office He embezzled $561 for which he was ousted from office and convicted of failing to safeguard public funds. Punishment was $11,545 to cover county audit costs and a five-year sentence. In 1993, Brohn ran for Flushing Board of Education, but was unsuccessful. While serving probation, he was arrested for violated probation for ceasing to pay restitution and issuing a bad check to the Fenton Village Players. In 2008, Brohn failed to register as a sex offender after he returned to Michigan and was sentenced to two years probation for failing to register due to the 1997 New Jersey conviction.<ref name="fj1"/>
In 2008, a multi-jurisdictional investigation under the U.S. Department of Justice Project Safe Childhood program caught Brohn and 15 other that were arrested and indicted for sex offenses.<ref name="mss"/> A Federal Court accepted Brohn's guilty plea in a 2009 case were he soliciting a 15-year-old boy he met online and travel across state boundaries from Arizona to California in January 2006 with intent to have sex with the boy. He was sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison and supervised release for 10 years, must register as a sex offender and will have restricted access to minors, computers and the Internet.<ref name="fj1"/>
In April 2008, Brohn was arraigned on charges that he failed to register as a sex offender when he move back to Michigan in 2007. A grandfather tipped off law enforcement about Brohn when he saw him talking to some kids out a Flushing ice cream shop. Brohn stated that the charges were made up to prevent him from running for register of deeds again, which the Genesee County Sheriff and Prosecutor refuted.<ref name="fj1"/>

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