Appeals Court: Felony charges against former Walker aide will stand

[hue]

http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/appeals-court-felonies-against-former-walker-aide-will-stand-tg6qphp-169318906.html

A state Appeals Court panel Tuesday denied a bid by Kelly Rindfleisch, a former aide to Gov. Scott Walker, to have her felony misconduct charges dismissed based on a decade-old immunity deal.

The District I Appeals Court declined to consider Rindfleisch's challenge of a pretrial ruling by Milwaukee County Circuit Judge David Hansher, who ruled July 3 that Rindfleisch's 2002 immunity deal didn't apply to future crimes.

Franklyn Gimbel, Rindfleisch's lawyer, had argued that immunity she got from prosecution in the decade-old state Capitol caucus scandal precluded her from facing similar charges dating to 2010, when Rindfleisch was deputy chief of staff to then-Milwaukee County Executive Walker. She is accused of working on campaign fundraisers while at her taxpayer-paid county post.

Her 2002 immunity deal applied to a probe of state lawmakers and legislative aides doing campaign work on state time. Rindfleisch worked for Republican legislators and for the Assembly and Senate caucus staffs, before turning to consulting and then taking the job at the county with Walker....
Rindfleisch, 43, is scheduled to stand trail Oct. 15 on four felony misconduct counts.

[rfranklin]

1. Walker next!

Get the bastard!

[formercia]

2. Now, that's Chutzpah

[Scuba]

3. This was just a delaying tactic. Kelly had no hope that immunity for past crimes would cover ...

... new ones as well.


See ya at Taycheedah Kelly!!!!!!!!!!

[gaspee]

4. Wow, I would think the opposite

She has a history of corruption. That shouldn't give her immunity, but wipe out her old immunity. What nerve!