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A 51-page criminal complaint [PDF] (the "Rindfleisch complaint" , which formally charges Kelly M. Rindfleisch with four felony counts of misconduct in public office, contains factual allegations which implicate a number of individuals, listed as "interested parties," including WI's controversial Republican Governor, in a wide-reaching criminal conspiracy to misuse public employees and resources for partisan political gain.
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indepat
(20,899 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)This expression is notable because it is what Nixon Attorney General John Mitchell said regarding Katharine Graham, The Washington Post publisher, regarding reported of the Watergate story. A wringer is a device on an old-fashioned washer that is used to wring water out of clothes. "The most famous incident of her dry imperturbability was when Carl Bernstein was asking Nixon's attorney-general John Mitchell whether he had control of the funds that financed the Watergate break-in. Mitchell informed Bernstein that, 'All that crap, it's all been denied. If you print that, Katie Graham will get her (obscenity deleted) caught in a wringer.' (Ben) Bradlee ran the quote in full in the paper, with the sole omission of the part of Graham's anatomy that was destined to be entangled. The next day, Mrs. Graham walked up to Bernstein's desk and asked, 'Carl, do you have any more messages for me?'"
Source: http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/25/messages/1040.html
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Russell was Director of Housing at the time. If Russell had been on Walker's admin staff, sending him the email might make sense, but Russell was not.
How did Walker know Russell was running the secret email system?
That the illegal campaigning stopped after Walker's email strongly suggests Walker hit the right target.
Remember Me
(1,532 posts)Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)What's this all about?
Ellipsis
(9,124 posts)Quindel said he remembers an unusual bidding process during Walker's tenure as county executive. What appeared to be a done deal to extend a lease on some county offices turned into another round of bidding and gave bidders just five hours to present new bids.
"I thought it was a strange way of doing business. Even if you had rebid process, it should have been longer than this short, jammed-up period of time, and I was worried about a lawsuit even at the time," Quindel said.
The lowest bidder in that round was the Reuss Federal Plaza, managed by the Boerke Co.
The John Doe judge recently jailed Boerke Co. agent Andrew Jensen for failure to cooperate in this investigation.
http://www.wisn.com/news/30318789/detail.html
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)Ellipsis
(9,124 posts)Reuss Federal Plaza, managed by the Boerke Co.
Quindel said he believes prosecutors are now reviewing that deal.
"It fits a pattern that their whole operation was always about what's good for them politically and their friends," Quindel said.
Thursday, prosecutors announced a plea deal with a Walker aide, Darlene Wink, accused of campaigning on county time.
Wink promised to provide information on the destruction of digital records.
Sources believe prosecutors are looking for evidence of influence peddling in the county executive's office.
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)glad it is catching up with him
Blue Owl
(50,529 posts)n/t
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Were these same people rigging the Wisconsin elections in Milwaukee?
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