Former Milwaukee city attorney found guilty of misconduct

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Cops Gone Wild: Milwaukee to pay $825,000 to end two police cases

From JSOnline:

David Clarey

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

The city of Milwaukee will pay $825,000 to resolve two claims brought forward after alleged police misconduct.

The payments will end legal action surrounding the death of a woman who was run over by a Milwaukee police officer in 2025, and in the lawsuit made by a couple who were repeatedly the subject of false claims to police and prompting numerous police responses between 2022 and 2023. Milwaukee Common Council passed the payments June 2.

The family of Haley Linville will receive $250,000 in connection to her Sept. 16, 2025, death.

A Milwaukee police officer was responding to the city's south side for a welfare check when, as Linville lay at the entrance of an alleyway, an officer ran her over. She later died at the hospital.

The other payment, for $575,000, will go to Niki Robinson and Patrick Tomlinson. Police were dispatched 45 times to their home over a two-year span. The city admitted in court documents that police knew the couple was being targeted by fake emergency calls.

The city denied searches related to the calls were illegal.

The payments still require Mayor Cavalier Johnson's signature for final approval. Spokesperson Jeff Fleming said the mayor will decide whether to sign off in coming days.

"He is inclined to support the council action," Fleming said in a text message.

An attorney for Linville's family initially sought over $21 million for her death, but Wisconsin state statute caps civil settlements at $250,000.

Ald. Marina Dimitrijevic, who abstained from voting on Linville settlement, said the amount was not enough for the family.

"We need to continue to hold people accountable," she said. "Quite frankly, too many women in particular I'm seeing not getting the standard of care they need from the city of Milwaukee."

More: What a city leader wants to change after officer's questioning of rape survivor

City Attorney Evan Goyke brought the settlements to the Common Council. His office has agreed to several large settlements since Goyke began his term in 2024.

The Milwaukee Police Association, the union for rank-and-file officers, criticized Goyke for those settlements, arguing he has not done enough to defend officers.

In Milwaukee, taxpayers bear the costs of any settlements.

David Clarey is a public safety reporter at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He can be reached at dclarey@usatodayco.com.

From: https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/crime/2026/06/02/milwaukee-to-pay-825000-to-end-two-police-cases/90370422007/

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Former Milwaukee City Attorney Tearman Spencer charged with misconduct in office, a felony

From JSOnline:

Alison DirrDaniel Bice

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

The Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office filed criminal charges against former Milwaukee City Attorney Tearman Spencer Wednesday.

Spencer, 67, of Milwaukee is charged with misconduct in office, a felony, and obstructing an officer, a misdemeanor, according to a criminal complaint.

On the felony charge, the complaint states that between June 1, 2022, and Feb. 14, 2023, "in his capacity as a public employee (Spencer) exercised a discretionary power in a manner inconsistent with the duties of his employment and with intent to obtain a dishonest advantage for another."

He's accused of obstructing an officer in July 2024.

Spencer lost his bid for re-election in April to state Rep. Evan Goyke.

This story will be updated.

Alison Dirr can be reached at adirr@jrn.com.

From: https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2024/10/02/former-milwaukee-city-attorney-tearman-spencer-criminally-charged/75483384007/

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Milwaukee assistant city attorney who backed Putin on Russia Today TV, worked for anti-Islamic groups is fired

From JSOnline:

Alison DirrDaniel Bice

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

The Milwaukee assistant city attorney who last week backed Russian President Vladimir Putin in an appearance on Russia Today TV and who previously worked for anti-Islamic "hate groups" is out of a job.

City Attorney Tearman Spencer's termination notice to the city's Department of Employee Relations on Monday cited only "Job performance. Poor fit." as the reason to end Jennifer DeMaster's employment with the office. The notice did not contain additional details, and neither DeMaster nor Spencer immediately responded to requests for comment Monday. 

Assistant City Attorney Nicholas Zales also had his employment in the office terminated Monday, according to Department of Employee Relations Director Makda Fessahaye. That notice cites only "job performance" as the reason.

A voicemail left at a phone number listed as associated with Zales and a message through LinkedIn were not immediately returned.

Both were on a probationary status, Fessahaye said.

"I am not aware of anyone else being terminated during probation in the City Attorney's Office during my tenure," said Fessahaye, who was confirmed to her position in January 2021. 

Read and see more: https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/milwaukee/2022/02/28/milwaukee-assistant-attorney-who-backed-putin-russia-today-tv-fired-jennifer-demaster/9322215002/

Re: Attorney Erick Kaardal

Who would City of Ratcine McMayor Cory "Butterbal" Mason be best representated by? See if you can guess....

Hmm... a Brooklyn Joo - a Person of Color........

Attorney Erick Kaardal

Submitted by legal stranger:

HOT Government has retained Attorney Kaardal to pursue the scofflaws within the city of Racine concerning unfulfilled open record requests.

The city of Racine may soon be under the national microscope. 

Be Outraged BE VERY OUTRAGED !

From Racine County Corruption:

Be Outraged

BE VERY OUTRAGED !

ILLUMINATING HIDDEN TRUTHS 

Will Judge Kerkman take the bait?

When it comes to fools,

there is no fool like a 

2nd. judicial district fool!!! 

The case of Sandy Weidner vs. City of Racine took another nefarious turn when the City of Racine noticed up the court that they wish to pull some of their submitted documents from the court record and replace them with newly manufactured documents.  It appears Sandy's attorney caught city of Racine Attorney Scott Letteney and Michael Cohen submitting some not so Kosher documents into the court record. 

Not so kosher means possible probable

  fraudulent documents were submitted in an attempt to hide real documents and 

mislead the court.

Take a look at all the entries in one day due to false pleadings by City of Racine Attorney  Scott Letteney and Attorney Michael Cohen 

11-13-2020	Prop. order for judgment
	Additional text: Proposed - Supplemental Order and Judgment Declaring Certain Rights and Dismissing Petitioner's Claims with Prejudice
11-13-2020	Proposed Order
	Additional text: Proposed - Order Sealing and Designating as Attorneys' Eyes Only Portions of Certain Documents
11-13-2020	Exhibit
	Additional text: (Redacted) Exhbit B to Michael Cohen Affidavit
11-13-2020	Exhibit
	Additional text: (Under Seal) Exhibit B to Michael Cohen Affidavit
11-13-2020	Exhibit
	Additional text: (Redacted) Exhibit A to Michael Cohen Affidavit
11-13-2020	Exhibit
	Additional text: (Under Seal) Exhibit A to Michael Cohen Affidavit
11-13-2020	Affidavit in support of motion
	Additional text: Affidavit of Michael J Cohen in Support of the City of Racine's Motion to Reopen and Supplement Final Order and Judgment Dismissing Petitioner's Claims with Prejudice
11-13-2020	Exhibit
	Additional text: (Under Seal) Exhibit A to Scott Letteney Affidavit
11-13-2020	Affidavit in support of motion
	Additional text: (Redacted) Second Supplemental Affidavit of Scott R Letteney Correcting Certain Statements Contained in 08-03-20 Supplemental Affidavit and in Support of the City of Racine's Motion to Reopen and Supplement Final Order and Judgment Dismissing Petitioner's Claims with Prejudice
11-13-2020	Affidavit in support of motion
	Additional text: (Under Seal) Second Supplemental Affidavit of Scott R Letteney Correcting Certain Statements Contained in 08-03-20 Supplemental Affidavit and in Support of the City of Racine's Motion to Reopen and Supplement Final Order and Judgment Dismissing Petitioner's Claims with Prejudice
11-13-2020	Notice of motion, motion
	Additional text: Respondent City of Racine's Notice of Motion and Motion to File Portions of Certain Documents Under Seal and to Designate Certain Portions as Attorneys' Eyes Only Information
11-13-2020	Notice of motion, motion
	Additional text: (Redacted) Respondent City of Racine's Notice of Motion and Motion to Reopen and Supplement Final Order and Judgment Declaring Certain Rights and Dismissing Petitioner's Claims with Prejudice
11-13-2020	Notice of motion, motion
	Additional text: (Under Seal) Respondent City of Racine's Notice of Motion and Motion to Reopen and Supplement Final Order and Judgment Declaring Certain Rights and Dismissing Petitioner's Claims with Prejudice

It is time to shake up City Hall !!!

Watch Talking Racine on YouTube ! 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCd9xym75NCDGMaT2dEgT6Q?reload=9

From: http://racinecountycorruption.blogspot.com/2020/11/be-outraged-be-very-outraged.html

DID COURT OF APPEALS CHIEF JUDGE LISA NEUBAUER JUST GIVE CITY OF RACINE ATTORNEY SCOTT LETTENEY A COLD SHOULDER ?

From Racine County Corruption:

DID COURT OF APPEALS CHIEF JUDGE 

LISA NEUBAUER JUST GIVE 

CITY OF RACINE ATTORNEY 

SCOTT LETTENEY A COLD SHOULDER ?

You read  -  You decide.

                                                             Judge Lisa Neubauer

                                                                   Scott Letterney

As the city of Racine Machinery Row* fiasco continues

 to wind its way through the courts, city attorney 

Scott Letteney is becoming more desperate to thwart any courtroom advances from plaintiff's.

In recent court filings concerning Sam Azarian et al vs. City of Racine,  case #19CV1524, Scott Letteney on September 11, 2020 filed a 40 page document  into the Court of Appeals titled "DEFENDANTS PETITIONERS' PETITION FOR LEAVE TO APPEAL NONFINAL ORDER AND REQUEST FOR TEMPORARY RELIEF".  In this petition,  Letteney questioned the competency of Racine County Circuit Court Judge Jon Fredrickson.  "as to whether the circuit court lacks the competency to hear Plaintiffs-Respondents........"

The Court of Appeals promptly calendared Letteney's petition and 10 days later Letteney's petition was denied.

The second major litigant taking the City to task of fraud and illicit dealings concerning Machinery Row is Patrick Fagan.

Plaintiff Patrick Fagan has filed a motion to recuse the city's "go to" judge - Eugene Gasiorkiewicz in case #18CV1227, Patrick Fagan vs. City of Racine/Redevelopment Authority of the City of Racine.

 In Patricks' filing he has cited Judge Eugene Gasiorkiewicz as a judge that "cannot act in an impartial manner", citing Sandy Weidners case #17CV1644, where Gasiorkiewicz acted in a most bias and prejudice manner, wrongly denying litigant Sandy Weidner the statutory right to amend her complaint within six months of filing.

The courtship between Letteney and Neubauer appears to be strained for the time being.

Perhaps Neubauer didn't like Letteney's reference of Judge Fredrickson  as lacking competency, or maybe Neubauer doesn't want the wrath of the public to again verbally attack her character.

But keep this in mind, Neubauer still calendared Letteney in ten days, while she failed to calendar Sandy Weidner case for over 4 months until a complaint was filed against her.

And now losing the city's "go to" Judge in the Patrick Fagan vs. City of Racine case has got to hurt.

OUCH!

* episode # 192

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swk8s3ByBqc&t=96s 

From: http://racinecountycorruption.blogspot.com/2020/09/court-of-appeals-chief-judge-lisa.html

City of Chiraq Mayor Lori Lightfoot Reveals the Entitled Elite Rich and Queer B*tch She Is

From Racine WI – Sin City:

Go Fuck Yourself City of Chiraq Mayor Lori Lightfoot and City of Ratcine Mayor Cory Mason

From Second City Cop:

What a Fucking Bitch

Groot really demonstrated not only tone-deafness, but her complete disconnect with reality:

• Mayor Lori Lightfoot defended the Chicago Police Department’s ban on protesters being able to demonstrate on the block where she lives, telling reporters Thursday that she and her family at times require heightened security because of threats she receives daily.Lightfoot refused to elaborate on the specific threats, but said she receives them daily against herself, her wife and her home. Comparisons to how the Police Department has protected previous mayors’ homes, such as Rahm Emanuel’s Ravenswood residence, are unfair because “this is a different time like no other,” Lightfoot told reporters.

Her refusal to “elaborate on the specific threats” stinks of Ed Burke’s routine of claiming he was threatened as the head of the Finance Committee and therefore needed a security detail, a city car and CPD single-digit call sign. When this was in the process of being removed, he manufactured a threat from some senile old man so he could keep his detail.

Then she really demonstrates that she thinks she is far more important that you pissants:

• “I think that residents of this city, understanding the nature of the threats that we are receiving on a daily basis, on a daily basis, understand I have a right to make sure that my home is secure,” Lightfoot said.

This from the most virulent anti-gun mayor in Chicago history. A mayor known by insiders to carry a small derringer-type weapon in her ill-fitting suits (her keeping a hand in her pocket all the time is a well known street “tell.”) Guess what Groot? Everyone has that Right, they just don’t have a taxpayer funded army to exercise it.

Remember when certain neighborhoods stood up for themselves and warned interlopers threatening to wreak havoc in their peaceful parts of town that it might be a bad idea? Groot said that residents shouldn’t be taking the law into their own hands….when she had (and continues) to strip peaceful neighborhoods of something that keeps them peaceful. She also wants to deny everyone the Right to own something that keeps her safe every single day and night, even when she isn’t living at her main residence.

But this is what really got us riled up:

• Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Thursday defended the heavy police presence outside her Logan Square home, at a time when police officers are stretched to the limit, citing “specific threats” made “every single day” to “my person, my wife and my home.”“Given the threats that I have personally received. Given the threats to my home and my family, I’m gonna do everything to make sure that they are protected. I make no apologies whatsoever for that,” the mayor said.“I’ve talked to my fellow mayors across the country and, seeing the kind of things that have been done to them and their family members, I’m not gonna have that happen. That’s not what my wife and my child signed up for. It’s not what my neighbors signed up for. We have a right in our home to live in peace.”

You know who else didn’t “sign up” for this bitch?

• our neighbors
• our spouses
• our children

But there you are, acting all high and mighty and presuming to be better than the citizens you are supposed to be serving, working the Department to death, undercutting any semblance of authority we might have, encouraging unfounded complaining, denigrating our representatives, and standing idly by while the men and women protecting you have to stand face-to-face with scumbag terrorists who are doxing them in real time, broadcasting their home addresses and encouraging the rape of their daughters.

Oh, you thought we forgot about your silence on that one? You demand protection your family because they didn’t “sign up for this,” but if a cop’s home is attacked or their daughter gets violated while he or she is standing post to protect yours, we’re supposed to what? Think they signed up for it?

You have abandoned the neighborhoods and destroyed downtown. You thought by waving the white flag, they weren’t going to come for you? You are by far the most useless excuse for a politician we have seen in our lifetimes.

UPDATE: Groot is taking a bunch of fire from the Right side of the internet for this:

• Instapundit
• Ace of Spades
• Breitbart

Groot is doing for Illinois gun sales what Sparklefarts did for national numbers.

While Shitty of Ratcine Mayor Cory Mason  and City Attorney Scott Lettney  is doing the same for da Shitty of Ratcine:

Meanwhile – in Shitty of Ratcine:

RATcine — A Racine man has been charged after allegedly yelling at two young girls while holding a baseball bat and apparently accidentally hitting one of the girls.

Lazarick L. Riley, 49, of the 3000 block of 16th Street, was charged with a misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct with use of a dangerous weapon and four counts of misdemeanor bail jumping.

According to a criminal complaint:

At 12:58 p.m. on Tuesday, officers were dispatched to the area of 16th Street and West Boulevard in reference to a man yelling at two 7-9-year-old girls while holding a bat.

Upon arrival, the officers located Riley lying in the front yard of a residence with a metal bat on the ground next to him. The officers observed that Riley smelled of intoxicants and had thick-tongued speech and labored motor skills.

He was belligerent and argumentative with officers, and they believed he was under the influence of alcohol. Riley denied consuming alcohol and that he was just at court that morning for his two open cases.

Officers spoke to a witness who stated he was watching the two girls as they were playing in the garage with their toys.

Riley then arrived, heavily intoxicated, and wanted to enter the home. The witness said that Riley was homeless and sometimes was allowed to stay at the house, but he refused to allow Riley in and that was when Riley went to the garage with the metal bat.

From: https://arrestrecordsofracinewipublicofficials.wordpress.com/2020/08/21/city-of-chiraq-mayor-lori-lightfoot-reveals-the-entitled-elite-rich-and-queer-btch-she-is/

City faces about $5 million deficit in 2021; warns cuts will be made

Corrupt, lying swindler

Corrupt, lying shyster

From The Journal Times.com:

Christina Lieffring

RACINE — Year after year, the City of Racine has kicked off the budget process having to figure out how to fill the gap between its growing expenses and flat-lined revenues.

And year after year, the city’s administration and City Council have used a variety of “tools” to fill that gap, including the controversial changes to the city employee and retirees’ health plans last fall, raising fees for some services, removing services from the tax levy and billing for them separately and using balance reserves.

This year Kathleen Fischer, interim City Administrator and Assistant Finance Director, warned the council that, “this year is very, very different.”

“There are not a lot of tools left in the toolbox,” she said.

Fischer estimated the city is facing a $4.5 to $5.5 million shortfall. One potential solution, which the City Council approved on Tuesday, was to ask taxpayers whether they’d support a referendum for an additional $3.5 million to help cover the cost of retirees’ healthcare.

The other, Fischer told the council, is that she has asked all city department heads to work out what a 5% budget cut could mean for their department and what a 10% budget cut could mean for their department. Making the books balance next year is going to require some reorganization and realignment of departments, employees and services. It’s also highly probable it will require some cuts.

Read more lies: https://journaltimes.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/city-faces-about-5-million-deficit-in-2021-warns-cuts-will-be-made/article_653f5456-3233-5cb0-b9c2-edefad495ae2.html#tracking-source=home-top-story-1

"Why does this keep happening?"  Because Butterball and his cronies piss away our tax dollars much more quickly than they can collect them.  (When will Butterball pay his fair share in property taxes?)  Cronies like Shyster Letteney throw away our tax dollars on high-priced, out-of-town attorneys to cover their crimes.  (When will Letteney bathe?)  These pigs oink away our tax dollars and then cry "poor."  Stop living like kings, you swine.