Walkergate Trials Heating Up, Plea Deal Has State Buzzing

[hue]

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12068-walkergate-trials-heating-up-plea-deal-has-state-buzzing

"Since May 2010, the Milwaukee County District Attorney has been conducting a secret "John Doe" criminal investigation involving Scott Walker's former staff and associates during the time that Walker served as the Milwaukee County Executive and was running for governor. The wide-ranging investigation has included allegations of illegal campaign work on the public payroll, embezzlement of funds from a veterans' charity, and even child enticement. So far, it has netted 15 felony indictments and, at this moment, three people are awaiting trial.

The Milwaukee County District Attorney has been carefully lining up the cases so that the smaller fish are squeezed before the big fish take the stand. Yesterday, a pretty big fish made a plea deal and the question is, what shark did she implicate?

Criminal Corruption in Scott Walker's Office

Kelly Rindfleisch served as Deputy Chief of Staff to Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker. She was charged (PDF) with 4 felonies relating to political fundraising while on the county payroll. Her trial was set to begin next week in Milwaukee County Court. On Monday, October 8, Rindfleisch's lawyers subpoenaed the Governor to testify in her trial.

On Tuesday in a surprise development, news broke that Rindfleisch had reached a plea deal with Milwaukee prosecutors. News reports indicate that she will plead guilty to one felony count of misconduct in office in an attempt to avoid jail time. Rindfleisch was in particular jeopardy, because she had been implicated in similar activities in the past and was granted immunity in an earlier "caucus scandal," which resulted in sentences of jail time for more than one Wisconsin legislator and the disbanding of partisan political caucuses in the state legislature in 2001."
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I reposted this here because it is a good synopsis of what's going on. In essence, we don't hear much of what is going on because John Doe investigations are secret!! --until the results surface in court!

[Sekhmets Daughter]

1. Thank you!

[midnight]

2. Not sure what to think about this plea deal? It seems like a tool being used to keep

Walker from testifying...

[bobthedrummer]

3. Nixionian "stonewalling" 21st Century WI midnight. It works for the criminals in office, doesn't

it?

[midnight]

4. Yes it does seem to be working in the way you suggest, but why would the courts allow it? Two years

of drip drip drip and many of the states department functions gutted and replaced with agendas and folks who use are tax dollars as a slush fund to prop up people who are not qualified to do the job....