Scott Walker Also Under Federal Investigation for Campaign Finance Violations

Report: GOP Presidential Hopeful Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in Legal Hot Water


Feb 9, 2014 by JANET SHAN

It looks like New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie isn’t the only presidential hopeful that’s in hot water. It turns out Koch Brothers lackey Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker may be facing his own scandal:

Newly-unsealed court documents and media leaks add to a growing body of evidence that Wisconsin GovernorScott Walker’s campaign is at the center of a wide-ranging secret probe into campaign finance violations during the state’s contentious 2011 and 2012 recall elections.
The John Doe probe began in August of 2012 and is examining possible “illegal campaign coordination between (name redacted), a campaign committee, and certain special interest groups,” according to an unsealed filing in the case. Sources told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel the redacted committee is the Walker campaign, Friends of Scott Walker. Campaign filings show that Walker spent $86,000 on legal fees in the second half of 2013.
A John Doe is similar to a grand jury investigation, but in front of a judge rather than a jury, and is conducted under strict secrecy orders. Wisconsin’s 4th Circuit Court of Appeals unsealed some documents last week as it rejected a challenge to the probe filed by three of the unnamed “special interest groups” that had received subpoenas in the investigation and issued a ruling allowing the investigation to move forward.
The special interest groups under investigation include Wisconsin Club for Growth, which is led by a top Walker advisor and friend, R.J. Johnson, and which spent at least $9.1 million on “issue ads” supporting Walker and legislative Republicans during the 2011 and 2012 recall elections. Another group is Citizens for a Strong America, which was entirely funded by Wisconsin Club for Growth in 2011 and 2012 and acted as a conduit for funding other groups that spent on election issue ads; CSA’s president is John Connors, who previously worked for David Koch’s Americans for Prosperity and is part of the leadership at the Franklin Center for Government & Public Integrity (publishers of Watchdog.org and Wisconsin Reporter). Other groups reportedly receiving subpoenas include AFP, Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce, and the Republican Governors Association.​

Read more at http://themoderatevoice.com/191501/report-gop-presidential-hopeful-wisconsin-gov-scott-walker-in-legal-hot-water/#DEoydrWMSwELwIFU.99​

 

The Franklin Center for Government & Public Integrity:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Center_for_Government_and_Public_Integrity

"Integrity"?...I really really doubt that!

 

If you do a quick google on what King W has been doing in Wisconsin you see that with control of the legislature and the executive he (the tea party/american taliban) is changing law at an unprecedented pace. Rolling back past improvements (not his) and forging new territory. Seems they have Gerrymandered the legislative districts to be nearly unstoppable. They are now working on obviating that pesky obstacle the judiciary with a law that disallows circuit courts to stop unconstitutional law I won't bother listing them but see all the new laws and how they have been found unconstitutional lately. Like the one about where cases could be heard so they could take up things in friendly courts of their choosing rather than the original local jurisdiction. This guy is really pushing the envelope and blatantly. Some how he survived those probes of his activities as Milwaukee County Executive when his staff went down for felonies because the connection to him couldn't be proven from his desk in sight and earshot of their desks only feet a way. Similar to CC he should be held for the actions of his crew or be held for incompetence. He gave exclusive access (tantamount to free ownership) to state land to the mining companies to restrict protestors and is now giving them hi capacity well legislation to allow them to pillage the northwoods and pollute one of the remaining pristine resources for profits. One of is most recent attacks on the slaves is to defund state projects in districts that have living wage laws. http://www.wpr.org/local-officials-labor-leaders-rally-against-limiting-living-wage-ordinances

That surplus? My hinder. Projected (maybe, maybe not) surplus on the 2 year budget cycle that is not 6 months old, with a structural deficit. Just another shift of money to where he wants it at the future expense of the places it came from. All this after raiding all the rainy day funds like what they took from the accounts (money already there) of the University of WI system. Hell bent for the dark ages.

 

Do you think he's the only one who should be held accountable for the actions of his subordinates?

 

You might notice he leads the charge on most of this.

 

Nope, no truth to this whatsoever.

Come on, Little Joe... you keep pounding these Republican governors (Scott Walker, Chris Christie), but you don't deliver. You're starting to sound exactly like IQ<1 who makes up stuff off the top of his head. I'm beginning to wonder which one of you is the puppet and which is the parrot.

Judge halts secret probe of Wisconsin conservative groups, in win for Walker


May 7, 2014

The "John Doe" investigation into conservatives is dead.

At least for now.

In a monumental victory for targeted conservatives in the secret Wisconsin investigation, Judge Rudolph Randa on Tuesday granted a preliminary injunction to stop the politically charged probe, ruling in favor of conservative activist Eric O'Keefe, his Wisconsin Club for Growth and "others." The probe had been looking into possible illegal coordination between conservative groups and Republican Gov. Scott Walker's recall election campaign, but came under fire for the opaque way it was conducted.

O'Keefe and the club in February filed a civil rights lawsuit against Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm, two of his assistant DAs, John Doe Special Prosecutor Francis Schmitz, and a shadowy investigator contracted by the Government Accountability Board.

"The Defendants must cease all activities related to the investigation, return all property seized in the investigation from any individual or organization, and permanently destroy all copies of information and other materials obtained through the investigation," wrote Randa, federal judge for the U.S. District Court Eastern District of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.

Randa further ordered that the plaintiffs in the civil rights case "and others" are "hereby relieved of any and every duty under Wisconsin law to cooperate further with Defendants' investigation."

"Any attempt to obtain compliance by any Defendant or John Doe Judge Gregory Peterson is grounds for a contempt finding by this Court," he ordered in the 26-page ruling.

Why? Because, according to the judge, the targets of a nearly three-year probe claiming illegal coordination did nothing wrong, and prosecutors have either disregarded the law or interpreted it incorrectly to fit their investigation.

The prosecutors-turned-defendants had sought an emergency stay of the proceedings on Monday with the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.

Prosecutors have been operating under the theory that the club and 28 other conservative organizations illegally coordinated with Walker's campaign during the state's partisan recall elections of 2011 and 2012. It has since blown up into a five-county investigation through the cooperation of the Government Accountability Board, the state's election and campaign watchdog, according to Randa's filing.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...consin-conservative-groups-in-win-for-walker/

 

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