Re: Attorney General scandal. Who was the woman released from jail on appeal?

[Kingshakabobo]

IIRC, she was a lower level bureaucrat in a Democratic Governor's administration and they trumped up charges to swing the election. She was immediately released upon appeal.

Looking for a name or link.........Thanks!!

[hlthe2b]

1. It was a state employee, Georgia Thompson....

convicted of trumped up fraud charges in Wisconsin by US Attorney, Steve Biscupic. The appeals court "took the extraordinary step of reversing the conviction and freeing the bureaucrat, named Georgia Thompson, due to the simple lack of a crime." Per TPM and Muckraker, the place to go for USAG info...

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/003075.php

[Kingshakabobo]

3. That's it!! Thanks!!!!!!

Edit to add text in case anyone hasn't seen this....


Court: Wisconsin Prosecution "Preposterous"
By Paul Kiel - April 20, 2007, 2:39 PM
Earlier this month, a federal appeals court slapped down a prosecution against a Wisconsin state bureaucrat brought by U.S. Attorney for Milwaukee Steve Biskupic. The court took the extraordinary step of reversing the conviction and freeing the bureaucrat, named Georgia Thompson, due to the simple lack of a crime. That's led to a lot of questions about whether the case, which implicated the state's Democratic governor in an election year, was brought due to political pressure.

Today, the court released (pdf) its written opinion on the case. And it wasn't any more sparing than the verbal remarks (e.g. that the evidence was "beyond thin") of the judges when they made the ruling.

The prosecution was based on a reading of the law by which "simple violations of administrative rules would become crimes," the judges wrote. By that interpretation, "it is a federal crime for any official in state or local government to take account of political considerations when deciding how to spend public money" -- a "preposterous" idea, they wrote

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more at link in post above

[rwork]

2. I think

it was in Illinois.

[Kingshakabobo]

4. Close! Illinois. Thanks for the response!! n/t