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summary: "Don Berlage was the district attorney for Charlevoix County, Michigan, during the 1970s."
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Don Berlage was the district attorney for Charlevoix County, Michigan, during the 1970s. He prosecuted cases in the area, including those connected to child abuse rings. Berlage's office handled investigations that intersected with broader child trafficking networks.[^1]
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Don Berlage connected to the [[Troop 137]] case through the prosecution of [[Robert Lang]]. Lang's activities included boy prostitution and ties to [[Richard Halvorsen]] and [[Raymond Woodall]]. The prosecutions revealed connections to [[John David Norman]]'s network and [[Father Bud's Boys Farm]].[^1]
### Footnotes
[^1]: Dovey, S. (2023). Eye of the Chickenhawk. United States: Thehotstar.
[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for this page. Berlage is not named in the 1977 House and Senate hearing records on child sexual exploitation, and no archive.org full-text match was found for him; Charlevoix County lies in Michigan, while the Troop 137 defendants were prosecuted in Orleans Parish, Louisiana.