Jeffrey Brohn

Jeffrey Brohn
Register of Deeds
In office 1988–1990
Preceded by	Floyd J. McCree
Succeeded by	Melvin P. McCree
Constituency	Genesee County, Michigan
Personal details
Political party	Democratic

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^[1] 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.^[2]

Post-political life

In 1997, he was convicted in New Jersey for possessing child pornography. While serving probation, he was arrested for violationed 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. 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.^[2]

References

1. Mickle, Bryn (17 April 2008). "Former Register of Deeds Jeffrey Brohn claims arrest intended to keep him from running for office again". The Flint Journal (Booth Newspapers).
2. Laura Misjak (May 21, 2010). "Former Genesee County Register of Deeds Jeffrey Brohn sentenced for soliciting 15-year-old online". The Flint Journal (Booth Newspapers). Retrieved 16 January 2011.