This is such great news. And while this is just a minor example of what actually goes on in crony capitalism, at least these crimes are being exposed, and at least it's happening around one of the most odious characters in American politics of the last 12 months.
Wisconsin governor Walker's crony buddies are charged with embezzling public funds! This is the same governor Walker who was trying to tell Wisconsin teachers, firefighters, police, and other public sector union workers to tighten their belts...meanwhile, he's taking over public funds that were meant for wounded veterans and families of dead soldiers and handing those funds over to a front group created by his crony buddies. Those crony buddies then steal that money to take vacations to Hawaii and the Caribbean...so go the charges.
Walker is guilty of nothing yet, except surrounding himself with these people, and then possibly throwing them under the bus. One of the arrested people was an aide of Walker's for a decade. Another of Walker's former aides is facing similar charges for embezzling. This stems from an investigation into Walker's staffers from the time when he was Milwaukee County executive. He appointed these people to handle the funds that he stole away from a group of veterans, then he turned the prosecutors onto mishandling of funds by one of his aides after the investigation started...hmm.
In the end, somebody took more than sixty thousand dollars away from veterans and their families, and the accused are people with decade-long ties to the already unpopular governor...soon-to-be ex-governor.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/some-responsibility-some-credit-in-john-doe-cases-vo3m7f3-136856138.html
http://www.progressive.org/scott_walker_and_stench_of_scandal.html
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