MILWAUKEE (AP) — Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel investigated a former assistant attorney general after he made critical remarks in a newspaper story, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Thursday.
The newspaper reported that Schimel`s office was looking into whether Thomas Dawson provided confidential information to the Journal Sentinel about a deal the state Department of Justice struck with a polluter.
Thomas Dawson was the state`s top environmental lawyer before retiring in 2017. Dawson told the Journal Sentinel that he provided his opinion and no documents when he spoke to a newspaper reporter after he notified the agency he was retiring but while his unpaid vacation time was still being paid...
Ken Notes: This should NOT be a political issues and we should know exactly what happened. That said I like the idea of getting companies to clean up their act moving forward rather that punitive actions in hindsight. I believe with this approach we can get more done by asking offenders to go beyond what they have to do...
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