Business people and consumers can you weigh in on this brief interruption of online certificates of

[midnight]

status?

https://www.wdfi.org/apps/ccs/?id=1K04153

Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions
Strengthening Wisconsin's Financial Future
Website will be DOWN Wednesday 5:00 - 8:00 PM Central Time for Scheduled Maintenance.
Beginning August 20, 2012, Online Certificates of Status will not be available for purchase for certain (out-of-state) records. Affected entity types include foreign Business and Nonstock Corporations, and foreign Limited Liability Companies. Online Certificates of Status for these entity types will resume in late December 2012.
Orders of Certificate of Status for these entity types may be placed through the Online Order System

Certificate of Status Options
Request a Certificate of Status (processing fee $10):
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[dembotoz]

1. their commodore 64 needed to get rebooted

sometimes you just gotta take stuff down to redo it.

seems to be out of state stuff only......
hmmmmm
what am i missing?

[midnight]

2. dembotoz I was wondering about the interruption of out of state stuff? Wasn't sure what to think

about this and wondered if anyone knew about it...

[mojowork_n]

3. It seems unusual

I found this link to the statute that defines the "duties of (the) department of financial institutions."

http://www.lawserver.com/law/state/wisconsin/wi-laws/wisconsin_laws_182-01

Right at the top, some those specified duties include the following:

182.01(4)(d)

(d) Processing, in an expeditious manner, a document required or permitted to be filed with the department.

182.01(4)(f)

(f) Preparing, in an expeditious manner, any copies, certified copies, certificates, or statements provided under this section.

182.01(3)(a)

(a) A decree, order, judgment or writ of any court;

182.01(3)(b)

(b) A document executed or acknowledged outside this state.

From now until the end of the year doesn't seem to be at all "expeditious," and that includes that last bit that specifies "outside this state."

The only (possible) newsworthy hit I got was this -- not quite year old JS article -- about venture capital that didn't end up where it was intended... the records were kept and released by that agency:

http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/watchdogreports/financial-firm-kept-nearly-half-of-states-capco-investment-131400693.html

I'd say a call to your state legislator -- Assembly or Senate -- or if you live in a thug district, to any Dem with sharp staffers -- to let them know that this is going on, and to ask why -- would be a good idea.

...The capco investment thing is just a shot in the dark, but whatever the reason, it looks like the agency is violating state law by imposing the 4 month delay. They shouldn't be doing that.

[midnight]

4. I'm just now opening J.S. link. 8million dollars is missing. And they aren't talking...

Capco is a venture capital company.... And our tax dollars go missing... Why does this sound like a Romney company.


"We're a public company, and the record stands as it does in Wisconsin," said Matthew Ash, Newtek's chief legal officer. "We've complied with the requirements of the law, and that's all we have to say."