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Eugene

(62,626 posts)
Fri Feb 23, 2024, 02:13 PM Feb 2024

Wisconsin ethics panel recommends felony charges against Trump committee, lawmaker

Source: Associated Press

Wisconsin ethics panel recommends felony charges against Trump committee, lawmaker

BY SCOTT BAUER
Updated 1:03 PM EST, February 23, 2024

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Ethics Commission has recommended that state prosecutors file felony charges against a fundraising committee for former President Donald Trump and a Republican state lawmaker related to an effort to unseat Assembly Speaker Robin Vos.

The ethics commission on Tuesday referred the alleged violations to several county prosecutors, based on documents the commission provided Friday.

The commission alleges that Trump’s fundraising committee and state Rep. Janel Brandtjen, a Trump ally, conspired in a scheme to evade campaign finance laws to support the Republican primary challenger to Vos in 2022.

Vos angered Trump after he fired a former state Supreme Court justice whom Vos had hired to investigate Trump’s discredited allegations of fraud in the 2020 presidential election. Vos launched the probe under pressure from Trump, but eventually distanced himself from the false claims of election fraud and calls to overturn President Joe Biden’s win in Wisconsin.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-wisconsin-vos-ethics-7d5dd7fd8d2da6001634a747b683b748

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Wisconsin ethics panel recommends felony charges against Trump committee, lawmaker (Original Post) Eugene Feb 2024 OP
I hate her Jimbo S Feb 2024 #1
She is one of the most vile. sybylla Feb 2024 #2
She lives in Menomonee Falls Jimbo S Feb 2024 #3

sybylla

(8,655 posts)
2. She is one of the most vile.
Fri Feb 23, 2024, 06:20 PM
Feb 2024

Her kind would never get elected if it weren't for gerrymandering. Hopefully with the new maps she'll be looking for other work.

Jimbo S

(3,011 posts)
3. She lives in Menomonee Falls
Mon Feb 26, 2024, 12:59 PM
Feb 2024

Depending how one draws the lines, her neighborhood could end up in a blue, purple, pink or red district.

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