New John Doe includes “a current legislative leader” believed to be Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/10/23/scott-walker-investigated-in-secret-wisconsin-probe.html

The Journal Sentinel also reported that the conduct of “a current legislative leader,” widely believed to be Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, is part of the investigation as well. Fitzgerald did not return a request for comment.

Walker became a national political celebrity after successfully pushing anti-union legislation through the Wisconsin statehouse and then surviving the subsequent recall election. His name has since been mooted as potential Republican presidential candidate in 2016, and he has visited Iowa several times this year. But he has long been under scrutiny from state investigators. Ethical clouds from his tenure as Milwaukee County executive have long proved politically problematic, with a long-running criminal probe of his appointees leading to several convictions for crimes, including embezzlement and campaign ethics violations. Walker long maintained that he was never a target in the criminal investigation, which was eventually shut down in March 2013.

But the newly public investigation could take some of the shine off Walker’s popularity with conservatives. Political pundits are likely to see connections to two wide-ranging ethics investigations in the same year as a poor launching pad for a presidential campaign. Before any national campaign, however, Walker must survive a 2014 reelection campaign against Mary Burke, a well-funded former state commerce secretary whose family founded Trek Bicycle.

Considering the probe’s existence just became public this week, more than 18 months after it was launched, more details about the investigation are not expected to leak. But whenever prosecutors unseal whatever evidence they’ve accumulated, the impact is likely to spread beyond Wisconsin.



Ah... the tangled web we weave.


http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/06/12135/federal-court-criticizes-wisconsin-republicans-peculiarly-furtive-redistricting

Court filings from April of 2013 showed that hundreds of thousands of redistricting-related documents had been deleted in defiance of court orders to turn over all documents. On at least two occasions, someone using the login credentials for two staffers to then-Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, Tad Ottman and Adam Foltz, logged-on to GOP computers and deleted files just before the documents would have been turned-over to the other side. Plaintiffs had spent over $100,000 conducting a forensic analysis of the computers and were seeking to have the legislature or its attorneys cover the costs of continuing to recover and reconstruct deleted files.

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1. I would so love to see both Walker and Fitzgerald crushed...

they are the slime of the earth