There was a lot of buzz today about a corruption case in Wisconsin from last year. A Bush-appointed US Attorney indicted a government bureaucrat in a case that implicated the state’s Democratic governor. But yesterday a circuit court threw out the conviction saying the evidence against the convicted official was “beyond thin.”
Indeed, the circuit court judges thought the case was so bogus that it’s hard not to ask whether the US Attorney in this case, Steven Biskupic, might not be one of those “loyal Bushies” who kept his job because he knew that one of his jobs was getting Republicans elected. It prompts the question; but it’s certainly too soon to say that’s the case. And yet look at how Biskupic’s number two and spokesperson responded when asked if the prosecution was politically motivated.
In an interview, Michelle Jacobs of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Milwaukee denied that the prosecution was politically motivated.
“I can tell you that from our perspective it was not, but that is as far as I’m going to go,” said Jacobs, a first assistant U.S. attorney.
Is that a strong denial?
