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Felzkowski Continues Investigation
The Wisconsin Republican in charge of the investigation into Attorney General Josh Kaul’s use of an outside prosecutor says she is not stopping her probe simply because that prosecutor’s office closed.
State Sen. Mary Felzkowski, R-Tomahawk, on Thursday said the Wisconsin Senate’s Special Committee on Oversight will not end its investigation into Kaul and the State Energy & Environmental Impact Center.
"The abrupt closure of the NYU Center, the middle-man that Bloomberg used to influence DOJ’s execution of these radical, anti-business ideologies, is even more proof that the Senate’s investigation was sorely needed and brought important information to light," Felzkowski said.
Kaul used grant money from the State Energy & Environmental Impact Center to hire prosecutors to focus on environmental and climate cases in the state. The prosecutors worked in Kaul’s Department of Justice, but were not officially state employees. Felzkowski and her committee were investigating whether that broke state law.
The State Energy & Environmental Impact Center quietly closed at the end of August.
“While this move is a victory, it is not the end. We understand the Center’s operations are relocating, and we cannot allow Josh Kaul to hire any additional privately paid, left-wing prosecutors,” Felzkowski added. “We will continue to piece together the full story about the questionable practices that Josh Kaul has sanctioned in Wisconsin’s DOJ. Wisconsinites deserve a DOJ that fights on their behalf, not on a pay-to-play basis for outside, radical interests.”
Kaul defended his partnership with the Energy & Environmental Impact Center during a hearing in February. And he criticized Felzkowski’s investigation.
“Clearly, this is a political show,” Kaul told lawmakers at the time. “It’s not serious."
Felzkowski, however, did not say when senators will resume their hearings, or if they plan to question Kaul again.
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