A Civil Question About The Email Dump
Just asking:
Couldn't the cost of all the Milwaukee County public employees' time (salaries, benefits, etc.) spent on partisan campaign work during Scott Walker's 2010 campaign for Governor be reasonably computed through the email accounts of all those involved and recovered for the Milwaukee County treasury through a taxpayers' lawsuit against Walker's campaign committee?
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They all need to be charged with Honest Services Fraud!
18 U.S. Code § 1346 - Definition of “scheme or artifice to defraud”
Current through Pub. L. 113-75, except 113-66. (See Public Laws for the current Congress.)
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For the purposes of this chapter, the term “scheme or artifice to defraud” includes a scheme or artifice to deprive another of the intangible right of honest services.
This should be considered as a way to stir the pot. Get it going. A good way to keep Governor Butthead's supporters busy and shape the media coverage.
Probably worth the filing fees just see who would publicly defend Walker's theft from the taxpayer.
Also worth doing to be able to drag Pierick and Russell into this. There are lots of out of staters new to the Walkergates who haven't heard about that sordid little episode. This might impact with Walker's carpetbagging fundraising.
Sitting here wondering when the first reporter asks him about the two holes text from Walker's kissing cousins Pierick and Russell .
Anyone advocating charging Walker with honest services fraud needs to google "honest services"+" Skilling appeal".
Only in a fantasy world will Scott Walker be charged with honest services fraud.
Yes, a civil suit; the Milwaukee County taxpayers certainly have standing.
And how about a federal investigation under 18 U.S. Code § 201
reading in part:
a) For the purpose of this section—
(1) the term “public official” means Member of Congress, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner, either before or after such official has qualified, or an officer or employee or person acting for or on behalf of the United States, or any department, agency or branch of Government thereof, including the District of Columbia, in any official function, under or by authority of any such department, agency, or branch of Government, or a juror;
(2) the term “person who has been selected to be a public official” means any person who has been nominated or appointed to be a public official, or has been officially informed that such person will be so nominated or appointed; and
(3) the term “official act” means any decision or action on any question, matter, cause, suit, proceeding or controversy, which may at any time be pending, or which may by law be brought before any public official, in such official’s official capacity, or in such official’s place of trust or profit.
(b) Whoever—
(1) directly or indirectly, corruptly gives, offers or promises anything of value to any public official or person who has been selected to be a public official, or offers or promises any public official or any person who has been selected to be a public official to give anything of value to any other person or entity, with intent—
(A) to influence any official act; or
(B) to influence such public official or person who has been selected to be a public official to commit or aid in committing, or collude in, or allow, any fraud, or make opportunity for the commission of any fraud, on the United States; or
(C) to induce such public official or such person who has been selected to be a public official to do or omit to do any act in violation of the lawful duty of such official or person;
(2) being a public official or person selected to be a public official, directly or indirectly, corruptly demands, seeks, receives, accepts, or agrees to receive or accept anything of value personally or for any other person or entity, in return for:
(A) being influenced in the performance of any official act;
(B) being influenced to commit or aid in committing, or to collude in, or allow, any fraud, or make opportunity for the commission of any fraud, on the United States; or
(C) being induced to do or omit to do any act in violation of the official duty of such official or person;
(3) directly or indirectly, corruptly gives, offers, or promises anything of value to any person, or offers or promises such person to give anything of value to any other person or entity, with intent to influence the testimony under oath or affirmation of such first-mentioned person as a witness upon a trial, hearing, or other proceeding, before any court, any committee of either House or both Houses of Congress, or any agency, commission, or officer authorized by the laws of the United States to hear evidence or take testimony, or with intent to influence such person to absent himself therefrom;
(4) directly or indirectly, corruptly demands, seeks, receives, accepts, or agrees to receive or accept anything of value personally or for any other person or entity in return for being influenced in testimony under oath or affirmation as a witness upon any such trial, hearing, or other proceeding, or in return for absenting himself therefrom;
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