Former Walker aide pleads guilty, will cooperate with DA

[kpete]

Former Walker aide pleads guilty, will cooperate with DA
Darlene Wink awaits sentencing, 3 others to be tried in John Doe probe
By Steve Schultze of the Journal Sentinel
Feb. 7, 2012 2:28 p.m. |

Darlene Wink pleaded guilty Tuesday to two misdemeanor charges of fundraising in the courthouse for then-Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker's campaign for governor.

Her convictions were the first stemming from a secret John Doe investigation into a variety of issues from Walker's tenure as county executive. Three other former Walker courthouse aides and appointees also have been charged through the Doe probe.

Wink, 61, worked as Walker's constituent services coordinator in the county executive's office at the time, a job that paid about $41,000 a year. She was charged with working on fundraising events for Walker's gubernatorial campaign in 2009 and 2010 while in her taxpayer-funded county job.

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As part of a plea deal, Wink agreed to provide information to prosecutors in the ongoing Doe probe, now in its 20th month. The deal calls for Wink to serve no jail time, though the judge isn't bound by that recommendation.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/former-walker-aide-pleads-guilty-to-cooperate-with-da-oc43ojt-138874409.html

[bluerum]

1. Jeez. Going to jail at 61 for a stinking $41k a year.

I'd tell them anything they wanted to know.

[leftyohiolib]

2. The deal calls for Wink to serve no jail time, though the judge isn't bound by that recommendation.

from the article.

[bluerum]

3. Yes. I read it. If she did not talk, I suspect jail would be in her future.

[TroglodyteScholar]

4. These invesigators are gathering enough singers to put on quite a show!

Getting nervous yet, Scott?

[Myrina]

5. The one thing GOP criminals never seem to learn ...

... any one of them corrupt enough to get involved in that kind of underhanded shit with you in the first place will throw you under the bus in a heartbeat in order to save themselves. No honor among thieves, as it were.

[UTUSN]

6. R#10 & K for, cooperate, what a sweet sound, COOPERATE!1 n/t