Two staffers who worked directly for Gov. Scott Walker while he was county executive were charged Thursday with illegally doing extensive political work while being paid by taxpayers to do county jobs.They set up a VPN to break the law?
One of the two, Darlene Wink, cut a deal with prosecutors under which she agreed to provide information in a related investigation about the destruction of digital evidence and to aid in further prosecutions. This is the first indication that the multifaceted John Doe investigation may be pursuing charges of evidence tampering.
Milwaukee County prosecutors also made the surprising disclosure that top Walker aides set up a private Internet network to allow them to communicate with one another by email about campaign as well as county government work without the public or co-workers' knowledge.
This is pretty f%$#ing brazen, and it has the advantage locating all the offending communications in one place, which might, as the article says, provide investigators with a trove of information as they pursue other angles in the case."
It gets better, because it looks like it wasn't just politicking on the job, but they are also looking things like bid rigging as well.
Of course, Scotty Walker is saying that it isn't his fault, "Walker's campaign said he had a policy against county employees using government resources to do campaign work."
Dude, your guys set up a private network. It simply does not get any more official policy than that.
I am smelling burnt bread in Wisconsin, because Scott Walker is toast.
H/t Susie Madrak.
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