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Accusations of corruption by Wisconsin’s Attorney General Josh Kaul have led to both an ethics complaint and a lawsuit in the past couple of weeks.
Kaul was exposed as accepting a quid pro quo from Democrat billionaire Micheal Bloomberg by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter Dan Bice in May. Bice discovered that Kaul had hired a new special assistant attorney general to specially to fight climate change. The position was completely funded by the State Energy Impact Center (SEIC) at New York University, which is funded by Micheal Bloomberg.
The State of Wisconsin got the lawyer for free. In exchange, SEIC got to use the authority of Wisconsin’s Attorney General to fight climate change. A quid pro quo.
Wisconsin state law prohibits state officials from accepting anything of value that might influence their official actions. Wisconsin attorney Lane Ruhland filed an ethics complaint against Kaul on Feb. 12th. She wants the State Ethics Commission to stop the attorney general from accepting free legal services from SEIC.
“The Attorney General’s acceptance of free legal services from the Center in exchange for his agreement to initiate certain categories of litigation violates this rule because—at minimum—it appears to be a quid pro quo that influences his official decisions regarding what cases to prosecute and how to prosecute them,” the complaint reads.
At the same time, Ruhland filed a lawsuit against Kaul on behalf of the Wisconsin Dairy Alliance and Venture Dairy Cooperative. Their members were targeted by Kaul’s SEIC lawyer, who was working with the DNR to file endless citations against Wisconsin dairy farmers. The lawsuit’s goal is for the judge to stop Kaul from accepting free legal services from SEIC.
As Ruhland explains in the lawsuit, “This case presents the question whether the Wisconsin Department of Justice is for sale.”
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