So far, the arrests in the John Doe investigation revolving around Scott Walker claim to have nothing to do with Walker personally. He merely associated with thieves and criminals, which as a defense isn’t much. But Zach W at the popular Wisconsin site Blogging Blue wonders about how long that will continue, especially when one [...]

In case you’re catching up to Walkergate, which actually netted two former staffers yesterday, Capper has you covered. This is a case of a Republican Governor who cannot find anyone but common criminals to staff his campaigns and executive offices. And as Capper writes, it’s not even close to over; the John Doe investigation still [...]

Tim Russell, a longtime former aide to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, has been arrested and charged with three counts of theft. This is part of a wide-ranging “John Doe” investigation into improprieties by Walker and staff dating all the way back to his days as Milwaukee County executive and continuing through his gubernatorial tenure. Computer [...]

On Tuesday, I brought you the story of Wisconsin Supreme Court justice Michael Gableman, who ruled on several cases in recent years where one of the parties was represented by a law firm that provided him with thousands of dollars free legal services. Gableman never recused himself in the cases, and he now is under [...]

Sen. Lindsey Graham openly threatened the National Labor Relations Board before they filed a complaint against Boeing for illegally moving their plant from Washington state to South Carolina, according to notes taken by the NLRB’s general counsel, Lafe Solomon. The House Oversight Committee obtained the documents through a subpoena, and they show total intimidation on [...]

With this latest twist, the MF Global scandal officially got real. MF Global, the failed securities firm led by Jon Corzine, admitted using clients’ money as its financial troubles mounted, a federal official says. An MF Global executive admitted that to federal regulators in a phone call early Monday after regulators discovered money missing from [...]

In Greece they’re going back to the days of direct democracy with a referendum on the debt-relief-for-austerity deal. Here in the US, we’re reliving some ancient history too – specifically, 2008. Jon Corzine’s MF Global just engaged in a Lehman-like crash. One annoying detail: they appear to have stolen customer money in the process: Federal [...]

Sit down for this one. Because you’re just not going to believe it. It seems that the more credit rating agencies are paid by corporations and banks to rate their debt, the more favorable ratings they hand out! This goes against everything I know about the untainted, incorruptible hand of the free market, and comes [...]

It was a signature of Bush-era incompetence in Iraq. $6.6 billion in reconstruction funds, loaded up on pallets and sent into Baghdad, never to be seen again. Where did it go? Who received the money? How could $6.6 billion go missing? Years later, the government has come up with an answer. It went to the [...]

The Keystone XL pipeline protests almost prefigured the protests on Wall Street and across the country, or at least offered a glimpse into the new aggressiveness on the part of activists to stop damaging government actions. Whatever the outcome, the weeks-long highlight on the controversial pipeline has caused PR problems for the White House heading [...]

We still don’t have a sense of how big or consequential this Scott Walker investigation is in Wisconsin, but the news that Walker’s own spokesman has been granted immunity should raise some eyebrows. Gov. Scott Walker’s spokesman is one of three witnesses who have been granted immunity in an ongoing John Doe investigation that includes [...]