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</div></header><div class="entry-content" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm may soon appeal the Wisconsin Supreme Court decision that ended the five-county “John Doe” criminal investigation into whether Gov, Scott Walker illegally coordinated with supposedly “independent” dark money groups during the 2011–2012 recall elections to the U.S. Supreme Court.
As prosecutors ready their case, the secret money advocates at the heart of the investigation are planning their next move.Dark money maestro Eric O’Keefe, who sits on the board of Wisconsin Club for Growth, has declared that Chisholm “is not fit for public office” and “should not be allowed to serve out his term.” He has threatened to get him disbarred, and he has tried to get Walker to fire him.
O’Keefe’s high-powered, D.C. lawyers are suing Chisholm in federal court on behalf of Cindy Archer. She claims to be a victim of a renegade prosecutor. But she was a top Walker aide caught up in Chisolm’s investigation of a sordid bid-rigging scheme detailed by the Center for Media and Democracy.Now O’Keefe and his associates appear to be prepping to go after Chisholm in a low-turnout primary, using the new, relaxed electoral laws they worked so hard to pass in Wisconsin. They’re also expected to unleash a flood of coordinated secret money and phony “issue” ads.
Scott Walker John Doe headed to divided SCOTUS
In July 2015, the Wisconsin Supreme Court not only shut down the investigation of potentially illegal coordination between Walker and dark money groups, they took the extraordinary measures of firing the Republican special prosecutor, who was hired to coordinate efforts at the behest of a bipartisan group of five District Attorneys. They threw up roadblocks to any appeal by, for instance, telling prosecutors they could not use expert, outside counsel to help with the filing.
Those actions were unprecedented and reminded many of the Saturday Night Massacre, when Richard Nixon fired U.S. Attorney General Archibald Cox and his successors during the Watergate investigations.“My career in the military and as a federal prosecutor fighting violent criminals and terrorists did not fully prepare me for the tactics employed by these special interest groups,” said special prosecutor Francis Schmitz.
“To somehow remove the lawyer representing one of the parties after the opinion (has been issued) is extraordinary,” said former state Supreme Court Justice Janine Geske.The GOP-controlled legislature took action in 2015 to retroactively decriminalize the activities at the heart of the investigation. They made significant changes to Wisconsin’s campaign finance law, exempting political corruption from the John Doe statute and dismantling the nonpartisan Wisconsin elections board.
Now the three Democratic prosecutors are slated to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review the state Supreme Court ruling. At issue is the $10 million spent to elect the conservative majority of the Wisconsin Supreme Court by the very same groups — Wisconsin Club for Growth and Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce — that were under investigation in the John Doe probe.According to the 2009 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Caperton v. Massey, outsized spending in a judicial election could be significant enough to demand that judges recuse themselves. Schmitz asked both Justice David Prosser and Justice Michael Gableman to recuse themselves from the John Doe, but they refused. Furthermore, they offered no explanation for their refusal.It’s unknown whether prosecutors will also appeal on the merits of the case. It is notable that coordination between independent groups and candidates is prohibited in most states and at the federal level. In 2016, a state legislator in Montana was convicted of breaking state law after engaging in similar coordination and, in 2015, a political operative working on a federal campaign was sentenced to 24 months in prison after being prosecuted under federal law.
Common Cause’s Jay Heck tells CMD that it makes sense that O’Keefe would go after Chisholm this election cycle. “The dark money groups want to protect the gains they have made in Wisconsin, changing the law to allow coordination between candidates and issue-ad groups. They want to stop an appeal before it goes any further.”The prosecutors’ appeal is sure to have Wisconsin’s far-right yelling “partisan witch hunt” again. Yet, the reality is that Milwaukee DA John Chisholm has a long record of prosecuting Democrats for political corruption.
In 2010, Chisholm used the John Doe process to prosecute Democratic Milwaukee County Supervisor Toni Clark on felony charges related to the use of just $6,300 in campaign funds. Scott Walker didn’t call that a witch hunt; instead he said the case was “a reminder to all others in office that we must maintain the highest ethical standards.”
Dark money advocates take aim at John Chisholm in re-election race
Chisholm announced on April 18 that he would run for re-election. The primary is Aug. 9.John Chisholm’s Democratic primary challenger is Verona Swanigan, an attorney and Milwaukee native who is new to electoral politics. Swanigan holds a law degree from Northern Illinois University (2005), and has practiced law independently with her own firm, Swanigan Legal Services, for about a decade. She registered her campaign in August 2015, and released a video announcing her candidacy in November that focused on reducing crime and addressing domestic violence.
Swanigan is an African American who has participated in community rallies calling on the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate police brutality. She calls herself a “conservative Democrat,” but her campaign is backed by the well-known GOP political operative Craig Peterson, who has worked closely with Wisconsin Club for Growth’s Eric O’Keefe on efforts to reshape Milwaukee politics in recent years.According to news reports, Peterson has long been associated with Zigman Joseph Stephenson, a public relations firm, but has had financial troubles in recent years. Peterson has ties to former Assembly Speaker Scott Jensen, who was caught up in the “caucus scandal,” an earlier John Doe prosecution of campaign finance abuses, and who now works for big money groups trying to privatize public schools.Peterson had reported $250 in monetary contributions and $1,681 worth of in-kind contributions to Swanigan’s campaign as of Dec. 31, 2015, a substantial part of the campaign’s $5,476 total take for the year. (Reports covering the first part of 2016 are not yet available.)
Earlier this spring, Peterson spearheaded an effort to reshape Milwaukee’s city government through a secretive group called “Milwaukeeans for Self-Governance,” which spent at least $200,000 on radio ads to influence mayoral and aldermanic races. The group, whose name strongly echoes that of the O’Keefe group “Citizens for Self-Governance,” has not been formally registered, and its funders have not been disclosed, but their impact is being felt.
“It really feels like we’re running against him, and not his so-called candidates,” Ald. Bob Bauman, a veteran Common Council member told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Bauman’s opponent, who lost her race, was Peterson associate Monique Kelly, formerly known as Monique Taylor.
Using racial justice issues to advance a tea party candidate
In the 2014 Milwaukee County Sheriff’s race, a liberal dark money group spent big trying to unseat incumbent Sheriff David Clarke Jr. Clarke is a right-winger, a darling of Fox News and a Democrat in name only. The National Rifle Association rushed to his aid, and influential right-wing radio hosts urged Republicans in the county to turn out in the open Democratic primary.Another unregistered Peterson group calling itself “Citizens for Urban Justice” also came to his aid, running radio ads attacking his opponent. In the ads, Monique Taylor presented herself as a community activist and listed the names of African-American men killed by Milwaukee police. “Now a lieutenant in that same police department wants to be our sheriff,” she said.The ads had a big impact in the city’s predominantly African-American wards.
But Clarke, who is African-American, is famous for attacking the Black Lives Matter movement, which he has called “black slime.” He has never addressed police violence.While he has been vague about the funding behind Milwaukeeans for Self-Governance and the city council takeover, Peterson has previously credited O’Keefe with arranging the funds to support Clarke. “Eric raised money for that campaign,” Peterson told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. “And I spent the money. That’s another benefit to our relationship: He’s good at raising it. I’m good at spending it.”
Peterson also worked with the Wisconsin chapter of David Koch’s Americans for Prosperity and Citizens for Responsible Government in an attempt to rally support against a modern streetcar project under development in Milwaukee. Instead of telling folks the truth — that the Kochs object to any type of clean energy transportation, including trolleys and electric cars — the Peterson crew slammed the trolleys for furthering segregation. Peterson paid for radio ads featuring the brother of police shooting victim Dontre Hamilton urging listeners to send Mayor Barrett and John Chisholm a message by writing letters opposing the streetcar.
While the ads stated they were “Paid for the Black Lives Matter Coalition,” Peterson paid for them himself, according to Urban Milwaukee.
With big money friends like O’Keefe and the Kochs, who are trying to turn secret election spending by wealthy special-interest groups into a principled fight for “constitutionally protected free speech,” Peterson is well positioned to unleash a tidal wave of phony “issue ads” at the last minute to sway a low-turnout election. In the August 2014 Milwaukee Democratic primary, less than 114,000 people voted. That compares with the 332,000 who voted in the November general election.Stay tuned.
Jessica Mason contributed to this report. Learn more about Eric O’Keefe in the Progressive “Dark Money’s Front Man” and in Sourcewatch.</div><footer class="entry-meta" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);"><a href="https://www.wisconsingazette.com/tag/campaign-finance/" rel="tag" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer;">campaign finance</a> <a href="https://www.wisconsingazette.com/tag/caucus-scandal/" rel="tag" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer;">caucus scandal</a> <a href="https://www.wisconsingazette.com/tag/cindy-archer/" rel="tag" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer;">Cindy Archer</a> <a href="https://www.wisconsingazette.com/tag/craig-peterson/" rel="tag" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer;">Craig Peterson</a> <a href="https://www.wisconsingazette.com/tag/dark-money/" rel="tag" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer;">dark money</a> <a href="https://www.wisconsingazette.com/tag/eric-okeefe/" rel="tag" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer;">Eric O'Keefe</a> <a href="https://www.wisconsingazette.com/tag/illegal-coordination/" rel="tag" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer;">illegal coordination</a> <a href="https://www.wisconsingazette.com/tag/john-chisholm/" rel="tag" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer;">John Chisholm</a> <a href="https://www.wisconsingazette.com/tag/john-doe/" rel="tag" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer;">John Doe</a> <a href="https://www.wisconsingazette.com/tag/kochs/" rel="tag" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer;">Kochs</a> <a href="https://www.wisconsingazette.com/tag/milwaukee-da/" rel="tag" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer;">Milwaukee D A</a> <a href="https://www.wisconsingazette.com/tag/political-advertising/" rel="tag" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer;">political advertising</a> <a href="https://www.wisconsingazette.com/tag/scott-walker/" rel="tag" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer;">Scott Walker</a> <a href="https://www.wisconsingazette.com/tag/verona-swanigan/" rel="tag" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer;">Verona Swanigan</a> <a href="https://www.wisconsingazette.com/tag/wisconsin-club-for-growth/" rel="tag" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer;">wisconsin club for growth</a> <a href="https://www.wisconsingazette.com/tag/wisconsin-manufacturers-and-commerce/" rel="tag" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer;">Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce</a></footer></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div></div><div>
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</div><div><div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr;"><div class="mw-parser-output" style="">John Theodore Chisholm (born March 14, 1963) is an American prosecutor and politician who has served as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee_County_District_Attorney" title="Milwaukee County District Attorney" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Milwaukee County District Attorney</a> since 2007. A career prosecutor, Chisholm specialized in complex conspiracy prosecutions before his election as district attorney in 2006.As district attorney, Chisholm garnered notoriety for two inquiries he led into staff misconduct and potential campaign finance violations surrounding Wisconsin Governor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Walker(politician)" title="Scott Walker (politician)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Scott Walker</a>. Chisholm has been scrutinized for his enactment of progressive <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_justice_reform_in_the_United_States" title="Criminal justice reform in the United States" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">justice reform</a> policies in Milwaukee County in light of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Waukesha_Christmas_parade_attack" class="mw-redirect" title="2021 Waukesha Christmas parade attack" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">2021 Waukesha Christmas parade attack</a>.<div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading" style="background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 7px; display: table;"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="margin: 0px; position: absolute; opacity: 0; z-index: -1; display: none;" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="text-align: center; direction: ltr;">
</div><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#Biography" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1Biography</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#Political_career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2Political career</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#Tenure_as_district_attorney" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3Tenure as district attorney</a><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#John_Doe_probes_into_certain_staffers_of_Governor_Scott_Walker" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3.1John Doe probes into certain staffers of Governor Scott Walker</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#Sources" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4Sources</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;">Biography[</h2>Chisholm was born in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee" title="Milwaukee" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Milwaukee</a> and raised in suburban <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waukesha_County" class="mw-redirect" title="Waukesha County" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Waukesha County</a>. He graduated from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquette_University_High_School" title="Marquette University High School" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Marquette University High School</a> in 1981 and attended <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.John%27s_University(Minnesota)" class="mw-redirect" title="St. John's University (Minnesota)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">St. John's University</a> before graduating from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquette_University" title="Marquette University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Marquette University</a> in 1986.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_note-MMEG-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a>Chisholm was commissioned in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Army</a> in 1986 and was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorable_discharge" class="mw-redirect" title="Honorable discharge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">honorably discharged</a> as a first lieutenant in 1990. In 1994, Chisholm graduated from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Wisconsin_Law_School" title="University of Wisconsin Law School" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">University of Wisconsin Law School</a> and joined the office of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee_County_District_Attorney" title="Milwaukee County District Attorney" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Milwaukee County District Attorney</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.Michael_McCann" title="E. Michael McCann" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">E. Michael McCann</a> as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misdemeanor" title="Misdemeanor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">misdemeanor</a> prosecutor. From 1994 until 1999, Chisholm prosecuted misdemeanors, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_violence" title="Domestic violence" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">domestic violence</a> offenses, and complex narcotics cases in the Milwaukee County <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Circuit_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="Wisconsin Circuit Court" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Circuit Court</a>.[In 1999, McCann appointed Chisholm as supervising attorney of the Firearms Enforcement Unit, which prosecuted high-profile cases involving organized crime, large-scale drug trafficking, and non-fatal shootings.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_note-MMEG-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[2]</a> In this position, Chisholm prosecuted millionaire marijuana dealer Kenneth L. Green and members of Jamaican and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_Kings(gang)" title="Latin Kings (gang)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Latin Kings</a> organized crime outfits.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_note-MMEG-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[2]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[3]</a> As supervising attorney, Chisholm was highly regarded by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_enforcement" title="Law enforcement" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">law enforcement</a> officials for his skill and successful track record in prosecuting <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_crime" class="mw-redirect" title="Gun crime" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">gun crime</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_note-MMEG-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;">Political career[</h2>In 2005, then-District Attorney McCann announced that he would not seek reelection in the following year's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Democratic</a> primary.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_note-MMEG-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a> Chisholm, then serving as supervising attorney of the Firearms Enforcement Unit, declared his candidacy for the position. Chisholm won 65% of the vote in the September Democratic primary, defeating former Milwaukee Alderwoman Larraine McNamara-McGraw.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_note-WisPolitics-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a> Chisholm defeated independent candidate Lew Wasserman in the November general election, winning over 82% of the vote.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_note-Election_Board-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a>Chisholm was unopposed in his 2008 and 2012 reelection bids. In 2013, he was mentioned as a potential Democratic candidate for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attorney_General_of_Wisconsin" title="Attorney General of Wisconsin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Attorney General of Wisconsin</a>, but he ultimately did not seek the office.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_note-Camp-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a>In 2016, Chisholm was opposed in the Democratic primary by Verona Swanigan, an attorney who conducted a general legal practice in Milwaukee. Swanigan's campaign was funded by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Republican</a> activists who opposed Chisholm's role in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Doe_probe&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Doe probe (page does not exist)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">John Doe probes</a> of Governor Scott Walker's campaign.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_note-Vielmetti-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[7]</a> Chisholm defeated Swanigan in the August 9 primary, winning over 65% of the vote, and faced no opposition in the November general election.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_note-Vielmetti-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a>In 2017, it was speculated that Chisholm would challenge either Gov. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Walker(politician)" title="Scott Walker (politician)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Scott Walker</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_gubernatorial_election,2018" class="mw-redirect" title="Wisconsin gubernatorial election, 2018" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">2018 gubernatorial election</a> or Attorney General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Schimel" title="Brad Schimel" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Brad Schimel</a> for his seat. Chisholm declined to run for either position, instead endorsing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee" title="Milwaukee" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Milwaukee</a> attorney <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Flynn(politician)" title="Matt Flynn (politician)" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Matt Flynn</a> for governor and ex-federal prosecutor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Kaul" title="Josh Kaul" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Josh Kaul</a> for attorney general.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;">Tenure as district attorney[</h2>As district attorney, Chisholm established a public integrity unit, resulting in the prosecution of Milwaukee alderman <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_McGee,Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Michael McGee, Jr." style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Michael McGee, Jr.</a>, who was later convicted of federal crimes including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bribery" title="Bribery" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">bribery</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extortion" title="Extortion" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">extortion</a>. McGee was also convicted of two state crimes, to which he pleaded <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolo_contendere" title="Nolo contendere" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">nolo contendere</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_note-JSMM-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a> Chisholm's office has prosecuted other officials, including Milwaukee County supervisor Toni Clark<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_note-JSTC-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a> and fellow supervisor Johnny Thomas, a candidate for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee" title="Milwaukee" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Milwaukee</a> City Comptroller who was prosecuted in 2012 for bribery but acquitted at trial.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_note-JSJT-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a>In October 2012, Chisholm charged four Milwaukee police officers with crimes ranging from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_assault" title="Sexual assault" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">sexual assault</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misconduct_in_public_office" class="mw-redirect" title="Misconduct in public office" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">misconduct in public office</a> for their involvement in the unlawful rectal probing of detained suspects.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a> Michael Vagnini, the officer most implicated[] in the illegal searches, was sentenced to 26 months in state prison.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a>Chisholm investigated and prosecuted violent felons, including preacher and organized crime figure Michael Lock and serial killer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_E.Ellis" title="Walter E. Ellis" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Walter E. Ellis</a>, known as the "North Side Strangler" who targeted prostitutes in Milwaukee for two decades.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a>Chisholm is a director and past chair of the Association of Prosecuting Attorneys, a national organization of American prosecutors.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a> In an interview with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee_Journal_Sentinel" title="Milwaukee Journal Sentinel" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Milwaukee Journal Sentinel</a> before his election, Chisholm said: “Is there going to be an individual I divert, or I put into treatment program, who’s going to go out and kill somebody? You bet. Guaranteed. It’s guaranteed to happen. It does not invalidate the overall approach.”<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a>On November 22, 2021, an investigation was launched into the Milwaukee DA's office’s handling of the bail setting for Darrell Brooks. Brooks is accused of plowing his SUV into the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waukesha,Wisconsin" title="Waukesha, Wisconsin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Waukesha</a> Christmas parade and was subsequently charged with the intentional homicides of 5 adults and 1 child and the injuries of 68 others. Brooks had an extremely lengthy criminal history. He was alleged to have punched a woman in the face and hit her with his car when he was released on $1,000 bail two days before the Christmas parade.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a> The bail was described by the Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office as "inappropriately low in light of the nature of the recent charges."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a> Several Republican state legislators have called on Chisholm to resign or be removed from his post by Governor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Evers" title="Tony Evers" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Tony Evers</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6;">John Doe probes into certain staffers of Governor Scott Walker[</h3>In 2010, Chisholm conducted a confidential "John Doe" investigation into financial and political misconduct on the part of staff and campaign supporters of politician <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Walker(politician)" title="Scott Walker (politician)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Scott Walker</a>, then the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee_County_Executive" class="mw-redirect" title="Milwaukee County Executive" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Milwaukee County Executive</a> and a successful candidate for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Wisconsin" title="Governor of Wisconsin" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Governor of Wisconsin</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a>The investigation resulted in four felony convictions, including those of Timothy Russell and Kelly Rindfleisch, who had served successively as Walker's deputy chief of staff.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_note-JSJD-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a> During the course of this investigation, Chisholm initiated a second John Doe probe, investigating potential violations of Wisconsin's campaign finance laws during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_gubernatorial_recall_election" class="mw-redirect" title="Wisconsin gubernatorial recall election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2012 gubernatorial recall election</a>. Due to the geographic breadth of this investigation, Chisholm and four other Wisconsin district attorneys turned over its management to former Assistant United States Attorney Francis Schmitz.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a>Many, including conservative activists, alleged that this investigation, which was permanently halted by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Supreme_Court" title="Wisconsin Supreme Court" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Wisconsin Supreme Court</a> on June 16, 2015, was a partisan undertaking against Walker's supporters.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_note-MMEG-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a> This claim was reiterated by Michael Lutz, who served as a short-term special prosecutor in Chisholm's office and who claimed to have been a close friend of the Chisholm family. Lutz alleged that Chisholm's investigation was motivated by his wife, a public school teacher and union steward. Chisholm's attorney, Samuel Leib, denounced this claim as "scurrilous, desperate, and just plain cheap."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[24]</a> Lutz committed suicide in 2015.[]<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_O%27Keefe(political_activist)" title="Eric O'Keefe (political activist)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Eric O'Keefe</a>, among others, sued and filed complaints against Chisholm, in both federal and Wisconsin courts, alleging the commission of civil rights violations during the course of the investigation. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Seventh_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit</a> dismissed a federal civil rights claim but did not restart the investigation, pending litigation in state court ultimately resolved in 2015.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a>Following the federal court ruling, conservative activist Chris Kliesmet requested that a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_County,Wisconsin" title="Dodge County, Wisconsin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Dodge County</a> prosecutor and circuit judge probe Chisholm's conduct during the second investigation. The judge, Steven Bauer, ruled on November 6, 2014 that Chisholm had acted "in good faith" and noted the campaign finance laws used as the investigation's basis "were and are arguably still enforceable", depending on the outcome of appellate litigation in state court.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[26]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_note-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a>In July 2015, the Wisconsin State Supreme Court ended Chisholm's probe. Justice <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Gableman" title="Michael Gableman" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Michael Gableman</a>, writing for the majority, stated, "It is utterly clear that the prosecutor has employed theories of law that do not exist in order to investigate citizens who were wholly innocent of any wrongdoing."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_note-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[28]</a> Chisholm appealed the court's decision to the U.S. Supreme Court. On October 3, 2016, the court rejected his request to hear the case.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_note-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[29]</a>On December 7, 2017, the Wisconsin Department of Justice issued a report criticizing what it described as the "breathtaking" scope of the John Doe investigation. It stated that the investigators obtained the personal email account details, including passwords, of 35 Republican politicians and aides, and hundreds of thousands of emails, including emails to Republicans Senator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Johnson(Wisconsin_politician)" title="Ron Johnson (Wisconsin politician)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Ron Johnson</a>, GOP chair <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reince_Priebus" title="Reince Priebus" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Reince Priebus</a>, and Congressman <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Duffy" title="Sean Duffy" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Sean Duffy</a>. The emails also included 150 personal emails between Wisconsin State Senator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leah_Vukmir" title="Leah Vukmir" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Leah Vukmir</a> and her daughter, including health information, which were placed into a folder labeled "opposition research".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_note-30" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[30]</a><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;">Sources[</h2><div class="reflist" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; list-style-type: decimal;"><div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns" style="column-width: 30em; margin-top: 0.3em;"><ol class="references" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-parent 0 list-item 0; list-style-type: inherit;"><li id="cite_note-1" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_ref-1" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite id="CITEREFStein2014" class="citation news cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Stein, Jason (October 23, 2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/nearly-50-das-decline-to-investigate-chisholm-in-john-doe-b99376883z1-280219202.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" e54="e54" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"Nearly 50 DAs decline to investigate Chisholm in John Doe"</a>. 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Retrieved December 2, 2016.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=The+Prairie+Badger&rft.atitle=Here%27s+a+list+of+potential+Democratic+candidates+for+Attorney+General+of+Wisconsin&rft.aulast=Camp&rft.aufirst=Aaron&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fprairiebadger.wordpress.com%2F2013%2F10%2F07%2Fheres-a-list-of-potential-democratic-candidates-for-attorney-general-of-wisconsin&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+T.+Chisholm" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-Vielmetti-7" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;">^ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_ref-Vielmetti_7-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:a</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_ref-Vielmetti_7-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">b</a> <cite id="CITEREFVielmetti2016" class="citation news cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Vielmetti, Bruce (August 9, 2016). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/08/09/chisholm-holds-wide-lead-da-race/88393374" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" e54="e54" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"Chisholm wins big in DA race"</a>. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved December 15, 2017.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Milwaukee+Journal+Sentinel&rft.atitle=Chisholm+wins+big+in+DA+race&rft.date=2016-08-09&rft.aulast=Vielmetti&rft.aufirst=Bruce&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jsonline.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2Felections%2F2016%2F08%2F09%2Fchisholm-holds-wide-lead-da-race%2F88393374&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+T.+Chisholm" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-8" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_ref-8" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite id="CITEREFHorne" class="citation news cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Horne, Michael. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://urbanmilwaukee.com/2017/03/15/plenty-of-horne-chisholm-for-governor/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" e54="e54" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"Chisholm for Governor?"</a>. 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Retrieved August 18, 2013.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Milwaukee+Journal+Sentinel&rft.atitle=McGee+pleads+no+contest+to+two+state+charges&rft.date=2008-11-14&rft.aulast=Diedrich&rft.aufirst=John&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jsonline.com%2Fnews%2Fcrime%2F34479059.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+T.+Chisholm" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-JSTC-10" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_ref-JSTC_10-0" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite id="CITEREFSchultze2010" class="citation news cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Schultze, Steve (March 5, 2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/86618372.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" e54="e54" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"Toni Clark gets six months in jail"</a>. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved August 18, 2013.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Milwaukee+Journal+Sentinel&rft.atitle=Toni+Clark+gets+six+months+in+jail&rft.date=2010-03-05&rft.aulast=Schultze&rft.aufirst=Steve&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jsonline.com%2Fnews%2Fmilwaukee%2F86618372.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+T.+Chisholm" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-JSJT-11" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_ref-JSJT_11-0" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite id="CITEREFSchultze2012" class="citation news cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Schultze, Steve (August 24, 2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/prosecutors-tell-jurors-bribery-case-against-thomas-is-clearcut-396k052-167330395.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" e54="e54" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"Jury acquits Thomas on bribery, misconduct charges"</a>. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved August 18, 2013.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Milwaukee+Journal+Sentinel&rft.atitle=Jury+acquits+Thomas+on+bribery%2C+misconduct+charges&rft.date=2012-08-24&rft.aulast=Schultze&rft.aufirst=Steve&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jsonline.com%2Fnews%2Fmilwaukee%2Fprosecutors-tell-jurors-bribery-case-against-thomas-is-clearcut-396k052-167330395.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+T.+Chisholm" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-12" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_ref-12" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite id="CITEREFBartonDiedrich2012" class="citation news cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Barton, Gina; Diedrich, John (October 9, 2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/criminal-charges-against-police-in-strip-search-case-expected-today-gf5cb94-173312411.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" e54="e54" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"4 Milwaukee police officers charged in strip-search case"</a>. 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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved May 28, 2015.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Ex-Milwaukee+officer+gets+26+months+in+prison+for+strip%2C+cavity+searches&rft.date=2013-06-21&rft.aulast=Vielmetti&rft.aufirst=Bruce&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jsonline.com%2Fnews%2Fcrime%2Fex-milwaukee-officer-gets-26-months-in-prison-for-strip-cavity-searches-b9938948z1-212486141.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+T.+Chisholm" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-14" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_ref-14" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite id="CITEREFBaird" class="citation web cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Baird, Kathee. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://crimesceneinvestigations.blogspot.com/2009/09/cops-make-arrest-in-wi-serial-killings.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" e54="e54" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"UPDATED: Authorities say Walter Ellis is Milwaukee's North Side Strangler serial killer?"</a>. 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Retrieved May 28, 2015.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Association+of+Prosecuting+Attorneys&rft.atitle=Board+of+Directors&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.apainc.org%2Fboard-of-directors&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+T.+Chisholm" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-16" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_ref-16" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite class="citation web cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://nypost.com/2021/11/23/the-da-behind-waukesha-christmas-parade-attack-suspects-low-bond/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" e54="e54" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"Waukesha DA admitted progressive reforms would mean someone would get killed: 'It's guaranteed'"</a>. 23 November 2021.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Waukesha+DA+admitted+progressive+reforms+would+mean+someone+would+get+killed%3A+%27It%27s+guaranteed%27&rft.date=2021-11-23&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fnypost.com%2F2021%2F11%2F23%2Fthe-da-behind-waukesha-christmas-parade-attack-suspects-low-bond%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+T.+Chisholm" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-17" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_ref-17" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite class="citation web cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/waukesha-christmas-horror-milwaukee-darrell-brooks-bail-review" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" e54="e54" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"Waukesha Christmas parade horror: Milwaukee DA announces internal review of Darrell Brooks bail recommendation"</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News" title="Fox News" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Fox News</a>. 22 November 2021.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Fox+News&rft.atitle=Waukesha+Christmas+parade+horror%3A+Milwaukee+DA+announces+internal+review+of+Darrell+Brooks+bail+recommendation&rft.date=2021-11-22&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fus%2Fwaukesha-christmas-horror-milwaukee-darrell-brooks-bail-review&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+T.+Chisholm" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-18" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_ref-18" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite id="CITEREFO'brienOrr2021" class="citation news cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">O'brien, Brendan; Orr, Cheney (November 23, 2021). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/five-dead-dozens-injured-after-suv-plows-into-wisconsin-christmas-parade-2021-11-22/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" e54="e54" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"Suspect in Wisconsin parade carnage was out on bail from previous case"</a>. Reuters.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Reuters&rft.atitle=Suspect+in+Wisconsin+parade+carnage+was+out+on+bail+from+previous+case&rft.date=2021-11-23&rft.aulast=O%27brien&rft.aufirst=Brendan&rft.au=Orr%2C+Cheney&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Fworld%2Fus%2Ffive-dead-dozens-injured-after-suv-plows-into-wisconsin-christmas-parade-2021-11-22%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+T.+Chisholm" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-19" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_ref-19" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite id="CITEREFPeek2021" class="citation web cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Peek, Jenny (2021-12-06). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.wpr.org/state-legislators-call-evers-remove-john-chisholm-milwaukee-county-district-attorney" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" e54="e54" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"State legislators call on Evers to remove John Chisholm as Milwaukee County district attorney"</a>. Wisconsin Public Radio. Retrieved 2021-12-07.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Wisconsin+Public+Radio&rft.atitle=State+legislators+call+on+Evers+to+remove+John+Chisholm+as+Milwaukee+County+district+attorney&rft.date=2021-12-06&rft.aulast=Peek&rft.aufirst=Jenny&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wpr.org%2Fstate-legislators-call-evers-remove-john-chisholm-milwaukee-county-district-attorney&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+T.+Chisholm" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-20" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_ref-20" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/hearing-set-on-bill-to-curb-john-doe-probes-in-political-crimes-b99460033z1-295888891.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" e54="e54" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"Wisconsin is the only state to use such a system. A state or two may have laws similar to Wisconsin's John Doe statute, he said, but he could find no evidence they had been used for decades."</a>, jsonline.com; accessed April 21, 2015.</li><li id="cite_note-21" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_ref-21" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hbslawfirm.com/articles_display.php?id=72" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" e54="e54" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">Explanation of what a "John Doe investigation" is</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141230202908/http://www.hbslawfirm.com/articles_display.php?id=72" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" e54="e54" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">Archived</a> 2014-12-30 at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Wayback Machine</a>, hbslawfirm.com; accessed November 8, 2014.</li><li id="cite_note-JSJD-22" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_ref-JSJD_22-0" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite id="CITEREFBiceDave_Umhoefer2013" class="citation news cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Bice, Daniel; Dave Umhoefer (March 2, 2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/report-scott-walker-probe-closed-with-no-new-charges-qh8vsfb-194194091.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" e54="e54" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"John Doe probe of Scott Walker office closed with no new charges"</a>. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved August 18, 2013.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Milwaukee+Journal+Sentinel&rft.atitle=John+Doe+probe+of+Scott+Walker+office+closed+with+no+new+charges&rft.date=2013-03-02&rft.aulast=Bice&rft.aufirst=Daniel&rft.au=Dave+Umhoefer&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jsonline.com%2Fnews%2Fmilwaukee%2Freport-scott-walker-probe-closed-with-no-new-charges-qh8vsfb-194194091.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+T.+Chisholm" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-23" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_ref-23" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite id="CITEREFUmhoefer" class="citation news cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Umhoefer, Dave. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/special-prosecutor-rejects-scott-walkers-partisan-take-on-john-doe-b99296379z1-264102151.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" e54="e54" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"Special prosecutor rejects Scott Walker's 'partisan' take on John Doe"</a>. Retrieved November 29, 2014.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Special+prosecutor+rejects+Scott+Walker%27s+%27partisan%27+take+on+John+Doe&rft.aulast=Umhoefer&rft.aufirst=Dave&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jsonline.com%2Fnews%2Fstatepolitics%2Fspecial-prosecutor-rejects-scott-walkers-partisan-take-on-john-doe-b99296379z1-264102151.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+T.+Chisholm" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-24" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_ref-24" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite id="CITEREFStein" class="citation news cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Stein, Jason. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/da-chisholm-denies-doe-probe-a-political-vendetta-b99348765z1-274690551.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" e54="e54" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"DA John Chisholm denies Doe probe a political vendetta"</a>. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved November 28, 2014.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=DA+John+Chisholm+denies+Doe+probe+a+political+vendetta&rft.aulast=Stein&rft.aufirst=Jason&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jsonline.com%2Fnews%2Fstatepolitics%2Fda-chisholm-denies-doe-probe-a-political-vendetta-b99348765z1-274690551.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+T.+Chisholm" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-25" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_ref-25" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite id="CITEREFSteinBiceMarley2014" class="citation news cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Stein, Jason; Bice, Daniel; Marley, Patrick (September 24, 2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/johndoe25-b99358722z1-276976981.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" e54="e54" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"Federal court overturns Doe ruling, sends it back to state judges"</a>. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved May 28, 2015.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Federal+court+overturns+Doe+ruling%2C+sends+it+back+to+state+judges&rft.date=2014-09-24&rft.aulast=Stein&rft.aufirst=Jason&rft.au=Bice%2C+Daniel&rft.au=Marley%2C+Patrick&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jsonline.com%2Fnews%2Fstatepolitics%2Fjohndoe25-b99358722z1-276976981.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+T.+Chisholm" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-26" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_ref-26" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite id="CITEREFStein" class="citation news cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Stein, Jason. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/judge-wont-launch-a-probe-of-prosecutors-in-john-doe-case-b99386061z1-281831201.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" e54="e54" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"Judge won't launch a probe of prosecutors in John Doe case"</a>. 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Retrieved November 28, 2014.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Judge+won%27t+launch+a+probe+of+prosecutors+in+John+Doe+case&rft.aulast=Stein&rft.aufirst=Jason&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jsonline.com%2Fnews%2Fstatepolitics%2Fjudge-wont-launch-a-probe-of-prosecutors-in-john-doe-case-b99386061z1-281831201.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+T.+Chisholm" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-27" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_ref-27" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.channel3000.com/news/politics/judge-wont-launch-probe-of-john-doe-prosecutors/29596400" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" e54="e54" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">Judge Bauer won't launch probe of "John Doe" prosecutors</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141201052452/http://www.channel3000.com/news/politics/judge-wont-launch-probe-of-john-doe-prosecutors/29596400" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" e54="e54" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">Archived</a> 2014-12-01 at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Wayback Machine</a>, channel3000.com; accessed November 28, 2014.</li><li id="cite_note-28" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T.Chisholm#cite_ref-28" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite id="CITEREFMarley2015" class="citation web cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Marley, Patrick (2015-07-16). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://archive.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/wisconsin-supreme-court-ends-john-doe-probe-into-scott-walkers-campaign-b99535414z1-315784501.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" e54="e54" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"Wisconsin Supreme Court ends John Doe probe into Scott Walker's campaign"</a>. 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</div><div>JOHN DOE INVESTIGATION | REPORT CRITICIZED BY ETHICS, ELECTIONS OFFICES</div><div>Ethics, Elections commissions respond to Attorney General report on John Doe leak</div><div>Matthew DeFour | Wisconsin State Journal Dec 13, 2017</div><div>Ethics commission rebuts Attorney General report on John Doe leak</div><div>
</div><div>The Wisconsin Ethics Commission responded to Attorney General Brad Schimel's final report into leaked documents from the John Doe investigation into Gov. Scott Walker's 2012 recall campaign.</div><div>
</div><div>M.P. KING, STATE JOURNAL</div><div>
</div><div>Matthew DeFour | Wisconsin State Journal</div><div>The state’s ethics and elections commissions defended their staff Tuesday against Attorney General Brad Schimel’s report on a leak investigation stemming from a now-shuttered investigation into Gov. Scott Walker’s 2012 recall campaign.</div><div>
</div><div>The Wisconsin Ethics Commission criticized the report for “omissions and inaccuracies” and called on Schimel to acknowledge that ethics staff cooperated.</div><div>
</div><div>Schimel responded that a letter from ethics commission officials doesn’t list a specific error and accused commission chairman David Halbrooks of having a conflict in the matter because he was granted immunity in the John Doe investigation.</div><div>
</div><div>Meanwhile the state Elections Commission defended its administrator and a staff member against a call for their termination, while saying it will ask Walker for permission to hire an outside lawyer to represent them in matters related to Schimel’s report.</div><div>
</div><div>Schimel investigated the leak of documents to the Guardian U.S., which published a report in September 2016 revealing previously secret details about Walker’s effort to raise millions of dollars for the Wisconsin Club for Growth during the 2011 and 2012 recall elections.</div><div>
</div><div>Schimel’s investigation didn’t identify who leaked the records to the Guardian and didn’t recommend criminal charges. But he concluded a crime occurred and that nine individuals who worked on the John Doe investigation, including Elections Commission lawyer Nathan Judnic, be held in contempt of court.</div><div>
</div><div>Schimel’s report revealed a previously unknown investigation into whether Republican aides were campaigning during taxpayer-funded work time. The investigation included millions of pages of subpoenaed email records from Republicans in what Schimel described as “the weaponizing” of the state’s former ethics and elections agency “by partisans in furtherance of political goals.”</div><div>
</div><div>But in a letter to Schimel, Halbrooks and Ethics Commission vice-chairwoman Katie McCallum cast doubt on a key piece of evidence Schimel used to support that claim.</div><div>
</div><div>They wrote that folders containing thousands of private emails from Wisconsin Republicans marked “opposition research” were not created by an employee of the Government Accountability Board — the predecessor to the separate ethics and elections commissions. Rather, they said the folders were labeled that way before the GAB took possession of them — which Haas told reporters Tuesday was the explanation given to Schimel, but not reflected in his report.</div><div>
</div><div>The emails in the folder included private email exchanges between Sen. Leah Vukmir, R-Brookfield, and her daughter that included personal health information. Schimel reported that Vukmir was one of 35 Republicans and the only elected official whose entire personal email account had been subpoenaed, but it’s unclear when or why.</div><div>
</div><div>Schimel said Tuesday the folders were created on a GAB hard drive on April 10, 2012, after the documents and emails found within the folders were subpoenaed by the Milwaukee District Attorney’s office as part of the first John Doe investigation into Walker’s Milwaukee County office, which resulted in six felony convictions.</div><div>
</div><div>Shane Falk, one of the former GAB staff recommended for discipline, said Tuesday in an interview GAB investigators didn’t change the names of files they received and DOJ should be able to trace who set up the folder.</div><div>
</div><div>“The implied inappropriate conduct has no place in this matter, as he admits he has no explanation for this,” Falk said. “To suggest that there can only be an inappropriate explanation is irresponsible.”</div><div>
</div><div>Lawyer requested</div><div>Halbrooks, appointed by a Democrat, and McCallum, appointed by a Republican, took issue with the report characterizing commission employees Brian Bell and David Buerger as being uncooperative in locating records and for invoking their Fifth Amendment right to counsel.</div><div>
</div><div>Halbrooks and McCallum said after DOJ asked in June to interview Bell and Buerger individually, the bipartisan commission requested that the two employees have a lawyer. Walker’s office appointed a lawyer on July 6 and they were interviewed later.</div><div>
</div><div>They also raised concerns that “the report gives the appearance that the Ethics Commission and its staff did not comply with DOJ’s record requests.”</div><div>
</div><div>“Our staff promptly provided all requested records based on each successive search criteria DOJ identified,” they wrote. “We immediately notified DOJ when potentially responsive records were located.”</div><div>
</div><div>Schimel responded that the commission turned over records in five separate batches between February and November and that “the commission’s level of cooperation is explained fully in the report, and the commission has not identified any inaccurate statements in the report.”</div><div>
</div><div>Bell and Buerger, who were not involved in the John Doe investigation but handled related records, were not among those Schimel recommended for discipline, but Sen. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, called for their termination — in part based on the Fifth Amendment reference in the DOJ report.</div><div>
</div><div>Halbrooks and McCallum objected to Schimel questioning why no member of the Ethics Commission reported a crime when the Guardian published its report. They noted no one at the Ethics Commission was privy to the sealed John Doe records so “none of us were able to identify that a crime had occurred at the time.”</div><div>
</div><div>They also objected to the report mixing up a description of the records security practices under the former GAB with those under the Ethics Commission, which has since put in place measures to ensure records are properly checked in and out.</div><div>
</div><div>“Make no mistake, the security deficiencies that previously existed under the GAB have been resolved,” they wrote. “We can immediately identify any attempt to obtain and leak confidential information in the future.”</div><div>
</div><div>Court shuts down investigation</div><div>The Wisconsin Supreme Court shut down the John Doe investigation in 2015, saying the underlying legal theory that coordination between Walker’s campaign and a tax-exempt independent group was illegal had no merit. It also took custody of all related records.</div><div>
</div><div>Republicans angered by the John Doe investigation dismantled the nonpartisan GAB in 2015, creating separate bipartisan ethics and elections commissions.</div><div>
</div><div>Schimel’s investigation faulted John Doe special prosecutor Francis Schmitz and former GAB staff Judnic, Falk, Kevin Kennedy, Jonathan Becker and Molly Nagappala, for their review of records after a John Doe judge quashed several subpoenas or their handling of the records after the state Supreme Court ordered all records be turned over to it.</div><div>
</div><div>Nass also called for the termination of Judnic and Haas, who was involved in drafting some court responses as part of the John Doe investigation.</div><div>
</div><div>Schimel recommended Falk be referred to the Wisconsin Court System’s Office of Lawyer Regulation for discipline. Schimel suspects Falk’s hard drive of containing the records leaked to The Guardian. Falk gave the drive to Judnic, who gave all of Falk’s records to Buerger, who put them in a locked filing cabinet but didn’t catalog them. Falk’s hard drive still hasn’t been located.</div></div>