Probe surrounding Wis. governor apparently growing

[malaise]

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/iteam&id=8354543
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- A team of FBI agents executed search warrants at a home on the east side of Madison, Wisconsin, Wednesday.

In this Intelligence Report: The raid was on a former top aide to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker in what appears to be an expanding corruption investigation.

Wednesday's raid is the latest carried out by federal authorities on several of Governor Scott Walker's top staffers, all state employees who recently resigned.

Even though the search warrant was executed on a home in the state capital of Madison, they were Milwaukee FBI agents. It appears that the federal investigation concerns Governor Walker's time as Milwaukee county executive.

"Saw about two or three more, four or five, then I saw agents getting out of the car and putting on their jackets, that's what identified it, FBI on the back of the jackets," said Madison resident Dale Reichers.
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Looks like Scotty is still a cheat?


Butter please!!

delete sentence

[trueblue2007]

1. sounds good to me. THROW HIS BUTT IN JAIL

[OffWithTheirHeads]

2. Republicans are corrupt. It's what they do. Hell, here in Arizona they

don't even try to hide it.

[malaise]

3. Perry sure isn't hiding it

He's upset at the low price mentioned for being bought. The good news is the Feds are going after them. I hope it reaches Walker

[rurallib]

16. He stopped just short of naming his price didn't he?

Prices must have changed and he wasn't sure what they had gone to.

[malaise]

19. Apparently they don't care

anymore

[nadinbrzezinski]

22. There is a phrase for this

even St Sara from Wasillah spoke it the other day... it's starts with two C's...

Stuck clock...

It is related to this toon



now I am walking away...

[malaise]

25. I's unfreakingbelievable

they are beyond brazen

[nadinbrzezinski]

28. Well the other word applies here

it starts with an F.

[malaise]

29. LOL

:fistbump:

[hobbit709]

39. "Perry is so crooked he has to screw his socks on in the morning."

[MADem]

4. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy, IMO. nt

[malaise]

5. Did you notice this

It appears that the federal investigation concerns Governor Walker's time as Milwaukee county executive.
Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Please! Please! Please!! :rofl:

[MADem]

14. POLITICAL work on public time...I'm shocked, I tell you...shocked!

And delighted, too, of course...

...The grand-jury-like investigation appears to be targeting ex-employees of Governor Walker, with the focus being on their activities while working in Milwaukee County and suspicions they did political work on public time. Two previous federal raids on Walker staffers ended with the seizure of work computers.

There was no comment Wednesday from Governor Walker, who has retained legal counsel, although he claims not to have been personally contacted by federal agents.

Walker's campaign hired a former Milwaukee U.S. attorney to represent his interests if the investigation comes closer to him.

[Auntie Bush]

18. I don't usually pray for God to do something...but this is an exception.

Throw his butt in jail, please,please,please, on bended knee!

[malaise]

35. LOL

:fistbump:

[freshstart]

48. The position that Bush

called a "very important assignment." Hmmm, I wonder what was so important. Anyone think Bush was kidding when he said Walker was his cousin? I don't think he was.

Bush speech from 2002 (6th paragraph down on the link):
"I want to thank Scott Walker. I call him "cousin." After all, I'm George Walker Bush. At least I call him "cousin" so long as he's doing a good job. And they tell me he's doing a fine job. Scott, thank you for taking on a very important assignment as the Milwaukee county executive. And we wish you all the best."

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=73103#axzz1Y493N1IS

[Ellipsis]

6. Do you know Ben Dover Governor Walker?

:evilgrin:

[malaise]

10. Details please

and butter :rofl:

[Ellipsis]

15. Is that a Last Tango in Paris reference?

:*

Details as posted in LBN

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=post&forum=439&topic_id=1941785&mesg_id=1941936

[malaise]

20. Wrong link

please repost

[Ellipsis]

23. done/nt

[Botany]

7. Please let this go to a certain Waukesha County ...

.... auditor.

[HereSince1628]

11. It appears to be related to his time as Milwaukee Co Exec. n/t

[Botany]

30. One can only hope

:bounce:

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Yummy

[HereSince1628]

9. There is an ongoing John Doe investigation

in Milwaukee that involves Walker's Milwaukee County Exec staff doing campaign related activities for him from their offices. No one can be certain that this is what today's warrants and searches was about.

[malaise]

12. This from the article!!!!!

The grand-jury-like investigation appears to be targeting ex-employees of Governor Walker, with the focus being on their activities while working in Milwaukee County and suspicions they did political work on public time. Two previous federal raids on Walker staffers ended with the seizure of work computers.

[gateley]

33. Not nearly as bad as I'd hoped -- wanted something that

would see Walker being marched off to the Big House.

I'll keep reading.

[femmocrat]

13. K&R

:woohoo: Maybe Walker will get his "just desserts"!

[Ellipsis]

17. Here is a little fresh dirt from Wispolitics.

A source with knowledge of the investigation said the FBI was involved for its expertise in computer analysis. The source also likened the investigation to the probe that led to charges against former legislative leaders Chuck Chvala, Scott Jensen, Brian Burke, Steve Foti and Bonnie Ladwig over caucus employees doing campaign work while in their state jobs. None of them are in the Legislature now, and some served time.


more...

http://www.wispolitics.com/index.iml?Article=247419




.

[malaise]

21. Sweet

I'm lovin' it :rofl:

[Scurrilous]

24. K & R

:thumbsup:

[Generic Other]

26. perp Walker him!

:bounce:

[malaise]

27. A first rate

DUzy :rofl:

[1620rock]

31. I'm hopeful but, remember Fitzmas? These guys are above the law.

[gateley]

32. Whoa whoa whoa! WTF is this?!?! I'm so excited by the

subject line and the popcorn I haven't read the piece yet. I'm relishing the antici-pation. I'm almost afraid to read it because I'm afraid I'll be disappointed, but can't argue with all these recs, so here I go -- THANKS MALAISE! :hi:

[malaise]

34. I'm just hoping it reaches Walker

Others have been sent to prison in the past and don't forget his college record. :evilgrin:

[gateley]

41. He's one of the ones I would truly relish seeing getting the

piss slapped out of him.

I'd be somewhat ashamed of myself for reveling in the schadenfreude, but I'd get over it. :7

[fasttense]

36. Now if the FBI would only do the same thing for certain members of the Supreme Court.

There is enough corruption among the Supreme Court to make Gov. Walker look like a boyscout.

[malaise]

37. Yes more than a few have conflicts of interest

Until the biggest fish are tried and sentenced there will be no meaningful chance.

[SpiralHawk]

38. Republicon Family Values

...as usual.

[N7Shepard]

40. Would be nice if the monopolized radio (all hate radio) in WI was involved

[mojowork_n]

42. What a blue moon event that would be.

Not that it hasn't ever, ever happened:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/374375.stm

Rwandan radio journalist has been charged with inciting mass killings during the 1994 genocide.

Valerie Bemeriki, a former employee of the independent Radio Mille Collines, was arrested in north-western Rwanda late last week, according to Justice Minister Jean de Dieu Mucyo.

"She will be prosecuted for genocide and crimes against humanity," the justice minister said.

Radio Mille Collines became notorious for its broadcasts which encouraged the slaughter of Tutsis and of Hutus who were sympathetic to the Tutsi cause.

The station was launched in 1993, backed by family members of the Hutu President Juvenal Habyarimana - whose death in a plane crash triggered the genocide.

"Do not kill those inyenzi (cockroaches) with a bullet - cut them to pieces with a machete" was one comment attributed to Ms Bemeriki.

....But it's pretty rare.

[Permanut]

43. Great news, Malaise, K & R

But don't ever use the word "probe" and the name "Scott Walker" in a post again.

[malaise]

47. Another useful link

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/129890163.html

[librechik]

44. GET THOSE BUSH BASTARDS!!!

yeah, that's the elixir, the stuff of liberty.

[Ellipsis]

45. VIDEO

http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/129890943.html

[malaise]

46. From LBN

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4995506

Lawyer up you fugger!! :rofl:

[jerseyjack]

49. I can't wait to see him doing the "Frog March Two Step."

[malaise]

50. Please please please

:fistbump: