Myria Asks AG Nessel and Governor Whitmer Why They Are Not Interested In Employment Violations By The Largest Employer in Washtenaw County

Myria Petrou	9:28 AM (54 minutes ago)
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And another critical piece of information that is honestly quite creepy here:

On June 26 2018 Dr. Kazerooni scheduled my husband for a “psychiatric” evaluation with UM psychiatrist before coming back to work after medical leave/approved disability for back surgery when Dr. Kazerooni had not seen Dr. Foerster for a year and there was nothing in his medical record that would indicate any issue with his mental health. 

Dr. Brower said that he didn’t know why Dr. Foerster was there. Dr. Eva Feldman told us right before that somehow this was related to the Ann Arbor Observer articles (?!). Dr. Foerster passed both the 6/26 and a follow up 7/10 interview with Dr. Brower with flying colors. 

It is also important to note that when these interviews took place while Dr. Foerster was on approved medical disability and also that Dr. Brower asked a bunch of bizarre questions including about the “criminal cat case”. Dr. Foerster was on medical leave and approved disability during the whole cat fiasco and the court was refusing to reschedule hearings etc for a small claims civil case over cat ownership forcing me to struggle to take care of everything including Brad after surgery and the kids, work and everything else. Nobody at the University of Michigan offered me any options for leave or support or anything at all when the leadership were all fully aware (including Drs. Dunnick, Kazerooni, Srinivasan and Timothy Lynch)what was going on. 

Dr. Lisa Seyfried, associate chair for clinical affairs for UM psychiatry said that if there were any concerns of mental instability about anyone the person that HAS to be interviewed was the spouse. 

Dr. Foerster gave my contact information to Dr. Brower but I was never contacted by anyone which I never understood why. 

Little did I know at the time that the day before Ms. Morgenstern had taken care of falsely accusing me to LARA saying I was convicted of a crime when no charges were ever filed ? 

So was the show here ? To render my husband crazy based on a sham psychiatric operation and render me a liar and a criminal based on a fabricated “criminal orange cat” fiasco ? 

When there was an ongoing HHS OIG investigation regarding sexual harassment and fund misappropriation that we were witnesses to?

I will also bring to your attention that exactly at this time we discovered that there “may have been” some complaint about Dr. Foerster to CPS which subsequently disappeared. We also received an email from Dr. Kazerooni reprimanding us for taking our kids to see Eva Feldman in clinic (done by many of Eva’s mentees over the years) with Dr. Kazerooni commenting on our “child care”. Bizarre to say the least 

But what was the intent here ? Obviously to discredit us as witnesses, render us unemployable and it seems like there was also an agenda to take our kids away. Of course our families and specifically my mother would have to be in on this with the University of Michigan but then we know my mother had a personal vendetta against us (as evidenced by her own voice recordings) and was part of the University of Michigan show. After all the whole civil litigation that was used against us by the University of Michigan was initiated by my mother Maria Petrou lying to the Ann Arbor police, dragging my demented father along as a credible witness and the Ann Arbor police issuing search warrants without probable cause or probable cause file, to be continued by “Nick”. 

Clearly this was an unholy alliance between the university, the family and the town/state with of course a hefty dose of law enforcement misconduct to come after two physicians with no criminal history and two kids. 

Again if you are concerned about what is happening to federal workers why would you not be interested in what public universities and local law enforcement do to their employees ? And if somehow you believe that everyone and everything was corrupted by my 78 year old mother please let me know how that was/is possible because that is very much relevant to my family’s safety and well being today. 

Happy to talk to you anytime 

Myria Petrou 

On Sat, Mar 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM Myria Petrou <petroumyria75@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear AG Nessel and Governor Whitmer,

I was somewhat surprised to see that AG Nessel and the State of Michigan joined the lawsuit contesting the terminations of the federal workers based on my and my husband’s experiences at the University of Michigan and the State of Michigan and the numerous horrendous employment and civil and constitutional rights violations you have been turning a blind eye to for years.

As you know, based on prior communications and the public record in 2017 the University of Michigan along with the local Ann Arbor VA ran a fabricated AWOL scheme against my husband Dr. Bradley Foerster in the setting of approved FMLA to remove Dr. Foerster from his 5/8 VA appointment as a permanent federal employee (the same argument you are currently claiming for protection of the federal employees) and shift him to 100% university appointment only to come after him with additional false allegations. When the US Department of Labor representative pointed out that what the University as the primary did was simply not possible as they were responsible for overseeing the administration of FMLA at both the University and the VA, according to Dr. Ella Kazerooni, then interim chair of Radiology Ms Morgenstern, counsel for Michigan Medicine said that the University of Michigan and the Ann Arbor VA have a “special arrangement” and do not have to follow US department of labor regulations/FMLA.

As you are also aware in 2018 Ms Morgenstern went on to file complaints against me and my husbands medical licenses with Michigan LARA based on this bizarre false allegation that we stole two orange cats from the neighbors and then presented “counterfeit cats” to the court for identification and again this false allegation that we were “convicted” of “indirect criminal” contempt of court based on all this. 

Michigan LARA after a basic review of the validity of the complaint established that there were never any criminal charges filed, no criminal proceeding ever took place, no prosecutor was involved and no signed court order is at the 15th district court (including the court verifying there are no sealed court orders) where the civil litigation on this issue took place. 

As such, and also given the lack of relevance of an issue of possession of two orange cats to medical practice and the lack of violation of the public health code LARA closed the complaint with no investigation. I and my husband were never informed of any of this (which would only happen if there was an investigation into a legitimate concern) and we only stumbled upon the information incidentally with a FOIA request. We both renewed our Michigan licenses following this with no issues. 

After discussing this with LARA, the court and legal counsel, we were told by all that these are non issues with respect to our medical licensing, credentialing and malpractice insurance paperwork as we were never part of the clinical proceeding or a state/licensing board actual investigation and never had to disclose or report any of this. This is also all concordant with the National Practitioner Database where nothing was ever reported (recent report attached). 

So why did Kara Morgenstern endorse the misadministration of FMLA to a federal employee or use a fabricated contempt of court allegation to trample over our employment rights? As an experienced attorney surely Ms Morgenstern knew better. We have asked Ms. Morgenstern many times for an explanation and she never provided one. 

What I can tell you is that when all this took place there was an ongoing HHS OIG investigation into fund misappropriation and sexual harassment under an NIH grant that we were witnesses to. Ms Morgenstern was “managing” these investigations for which we were key witnesses at the University end which she acknowledged in her own communications.  I can also tell you that me and my husband in the context of all this faced false sexual allegations at the University of Michigan by a character “Nick” that alleged he worked for the department of radiology and Ms Morgenstern was engaging with “Nick” behind the scenes soliciting further false allegations against us. 

Surely, AG Nessel and Governor Whitmer, would it not be easier to start with taking care of some of these employment violations at the major public university in your state that you have direct jurisdiction over and is in fact a much bigger employer in Michigan than the federal government? 

I trust I will not be retaliated against bringing these issues to your attention. My Maryland practice’s medical malpractice insurance is via Proassurance which is a company out of Okemos MI, in your back yard. I confirmed with our director that everything was in order as of yesterday evening for an upcoming annual renewal. 

Sincerely 

Myria Petrou

9337 Copenhaver Drive 

Potomac MD 20854 

PS Further documentation of Ms Morgenstern’s involvement in all this can be found at HailToTheVictims.blogspot.com