From the email inbox, courtesy of Graeme Zielinski.
A top Milwaukee courthouse official told me Monday that they saw Steve Biskupic and Michael Steinle walking together near the adjoining Criminal Safety Building last week on the same day the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel piously announced it would be filing a motion seeking the release of some of the John Doe corruption probe records.
Biskupic, the partisan Republican former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, and Michael Steinle, a stud criminal defender who has represented ax murderers, were the head of Scott Walker’s criminal defense team that successfully kept the governor out of the dock. (For now)
Other than Scott Walker’s criminal defense, er, “cooperation,” Steinle and Biskupic have not worked together but who knows-maybe they became friends in keeping Walker’s ass out of jail?The timing is significant because it could show that Walker wants to keep hidden his testimony to prosecutors (which remains under lock and key) as well as keep in place the gag on the scores of witnesses who testified in the long running probe, which resulted in six convictions and caused virtually every member of Walker’s inner circle to lawyer up. Journal Communications has been an able and willing pawn to Walker, so its recent filings seem too-little, too-late, but it’s better than nothing.
However, the Journal Sentinel and the rest of the state press have left Walker off the hook when it comes to explaining just what he told prosecutors in a 2011 sit-down about his own activity-and just what the hundreds of thousands of dollars of “cooperation,” paid to Steinle and Biskupic, looked like.
As far as the public knows, the Milwaukee County John Doe investigation has been over some seven long months, begging one important question:
Just what was Walker’s criminal defense team doing in the courthouse only recently?
Congrats, nice scoop!
Did your source report if Walker’s bag men were whistling as in “whistling pass the graveyard”?
Just what was Walker’s criminal defense team doing in the courthouse only recently?
Doing their part to help fulfill Walker’s job creation promise, donchaknow.
Well, Walker did create jobs for all the attorneys helping him “comply” with the criminal investigations involving so many of his friends/aides.
You and Graeme missed an opportunity. When mentioning Steven Biskupic, one should always, always take a moment to remind people of what he did to Georgia Thompson.
“Appeals judge orders documents released in closed investigation of Walker aides”
http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/appeals-judge-orders-documents-released-in-closed-investigation-of-walker-aides-b99107011z1-225265902.html
This is from Kelly Rindfleisch’s appeal.