The purpose of this site is to track a series of criminal and ethics complaints against numerous individuals affiliated with the University of Wisconsin System. The law appears to provide for criminal remedies to misconduct on behalf of these individuals, and ethics rules appear to provide additional remedies for any unethical behavior on the part of attorneys.
These complaints are intended to bring accountability and integrity to a culture that clearly lacks both. Civil remedies usually result in settlements that include nondisclosure and non-disparagement clauses, and these bring no accountability to the University - they are free to continue to act in exactly the same way as they did before the settlement.
The complaints found on this site have all been filed with law enforcement. In some ways they are tests of the system, and these complaints raise many questions. Do the statutes mean what they say? Are public employees required to follow the law? Will law enforcement actually enforce those laws on behalf of the people those laws are purported to protect?
And then there are the attorneys who provided counsel to all of these alleged offenders, and in some cases may have committed offenses themselves in their capacities as public employees. Will they be held accountable by law enforcement? Will the Office of Lawyer Regulation hold them accountable?
I think that the citizens of the State of Wisconsin deserve to know exactly where the lines are drawn, and by making all of this documentation available to the public, I hope that those lines will become bright and clear.
The documents, audio and commentary contained in this site are all a matter of public record.
A brief study on the applicability of the statutes and case law
Violations of open meeting law, felony extortion
Violations of open meeting law, felony extortion, felony misconduct in public office
Violations of Faculty Personnel Rules, felony misconduct in public office
Violations of open records law, felony misconduct in public office
Violations of UWS 4, felony misconduct in public office
Falsificiation of public records, felony misconduct in public office
Falsificiation of public records, felony misconduct in public office
Violations of Faculty Personnel Rules, felony misconduct in public office
Violations of UWS 4, felony misconduct in public office
Perjury, felony misconduct in public office
Various offenses, felony misconduct in public office