Tag: John Doe investigation
Cindy Archer’s claims of prosecutor abuse during John Doe search of her residence wildly exaggerated
In June, Cindy Archer, a member of Gov. Scott Walker’s inner circle during Walker’s time as Milwaukee County Executive, filed a lawsuit against Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm alleging prosecutorial abuses during a search of Archer’s residence in 2011 in connection with the John Doe investigation in Walker and…
Longtime Scott Walker aide Cindy Archer to sue John Chisholm
According to this op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal’s online edition Cindy Archer, a longtime close aide to Scott Walker, is planning on suing Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm for allegedly violating her civil rights. The governor’s reforms, commonly referred to as Act 10, prompted angry union protests….
Emails show Walker campaign treasurer John Hiller got inside information on real-estate deal
C’mon conservatives….defend this. The campaign treasurer for Gov. Scott Walker got detailed financial information from a top Walker aide about a real-estate deal he was bidding on, according to correspondence included in thousands of emails released Tuesday related to the closed John Doe investigation. The probe, which began when Walker…
Why did Brad Schimel forgo criminal charges against attorney who instructed client to destroy evidence in John Doe criminal investigation?
In 2010 the Milwaukee County John Doe investigation first came to light after Darlene Wink, a former aide to Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker, was charged and later convicted of political solicitation involving public officials and employees after she was caught using her taxpayer-provided County computer to do political work…
John Doe target looks to stall continued investigation
Despite the irrefutable fact that the John Doe investigation into Scott Walker and his aides has yielded a number of felony and misdemeanor convictions, conservative Eric O’Keefe of the Wisconsin Club for Growth is trying everything he can to keep the investigation from continuing. Eric O’Keefe is throwing what amounts…
The lamest defense yet of possible illegal coordination between Scott Walker & third party groups
What are they, a bunch of fourth graders?!? A group at the center of a campaign finance investigation ensnaring Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker has an emphatic retort to prosecutors examining whether its coordination with politicians was illegal: Everybody does it. H/T to James Rowen of The Political Environment.
Mike Tate: voters don’t care if Scott Walker was at center of criminal scheme
According to a freport by Gilman Halsted of Wisconsin Public Radio, Wisconsin Democratic Party Chair Mike Tate says Wisconsin voters just don’t care that Gov. Scott Walker has been alleged to have been at the center of a “criminal scheme” to circumvent our state’s election laws. As “proof” of his…
John Doe prosecutor: I voted for Scott Walker
This pretty much debunks the notion of the second John Doe investigation being a “partisan witch hunt.” The special prosecutor in the ongoing John Doe probe says he has nothing against Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign and the conservative groups at the center of the investigation. In fact, in a new court filing,…
Scott Walker to Karl Rove: “We are running 9 recall elections”
Yesterday news broke regarding allegations Gov. Scott Walker was at the heart of a “criminal scheme” that involved the illegal coordination of Gov. Walker’s campaign and outside groups, including directing the flow of money, in order to influence the recall elections here in Wisconsin in 2011 and 2012. As a…
Prosecutors allege Gov. Scott Walker part of “criminal scheme” to subvert campaign finance/coordination laws
In newly released documents relating to the second John Doe investigation of Gov. Scott Walker and some of his closest associates, prosecutors alleged Gov. Walker was at the heart of a scheme to violate Wisconsin’s campaign laws by improperly coordinating campaign activities with outside groups. The documents, released Thursday and part…
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