Victim of Republican political prosecution demands reimbursement for costs

Georgia Thompson, a state of Wisconsin employee who was falsely accused of corruption by Milwaukee U.S. Attorney, Steven Biskupic, has requested that that the state reimburse her $360.000 for the costs she incurred when Biskupic tried to throw the governor's race to the Republican candidate by faking a case and prosecuting Thompson for illegally steering a state contract to -- oops - the lowest bidder(??). This was a case that the Wisconsin Dane County District Attorney turned down because there was no evidence that any crime had been committed.

Ms. Thompson resigned when she was convicted, and was immediately sent to federal prison, where she spent four months while her case was on appeal. The Appeals Court looked at the case and immediately threw out the conviction due to a simple lack of evidence and the Appeals Court Judges were so incensed at the miscarriage of "Justice" that they took the extremely unusual action of dismissing the case from the bench at the end of oral arguments.

Ms. Thompson has been reinstated in her job with back-pay.

Doyle [Democratic governor of Wisconsin and the target of U.S. Attorney Biskupic's criminal action] against Ms. Thompson] aide Matt Canter said the governor supports the claim.

"It's actually the U.S. Department of Justice who should pay this, not Wisconsin taxpayers," Canter said. "But she is an innocent woman, and she shouldn't be caught up in this any longer."

In the claim, Hurley said the state should pay because the charges against her related to her job duties - duties the appeals court found she performed legally.

"Georgia Thompson's criminal prosecution, then, was wholly related to the proper discharge of her position within state employment," Hurley wrote.

This single case is the clearest evidence of the politicization of the federal government under Bush and Rove to try to create an American single-Party government which cannot be removed by democratic methods. Steven Biskupic had been on the firing list of U. S. Attorneys, the rest of whom were fired in the Pearl Harbor Day U.S. Attorney Purge. Immediately after this conviction of Georgia Harris became fodder for the Republican attack machine against Governor Doyle, Biskupic's name came off the firing list.

Biskupic is still the U. S. Attorney in Milwaukee.

Steve Benin provided an abbreviated list of other similar criminal actions in which the Department of Justice has been used to sway elections to the Republicans:

• Paul Krugman noted a couple of weeks ago, for example, that Chris Christie, the former Bush “Pioneer” who is now the U.S. attorney for New Jersey, issued subpoenas as part of an investigation against Sen. Bob Menendez (D) shortly before last year’s election.
• In New Hampshire, Democrats want Congress to investigate whether prosecution of a Republican phone-jamming scheme on Election Day 2002 was intentionally delayed until after the presidential election two years later.
• Did the U.S. Attorney’s office in Pennsylvania intentionally target Bob Casey allies to undermine his Senate campaign against Rick Santorum?
• Why was the career U.S. Attorney in Guam removed in 2002 after he started investigating disgraced GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff?
• Why has Western Pennsylvania’s U.S. attorney, Mary Beth Buchanan, spent a disproportionate amount of her time launching public-corruption investigations against Democrats, while overlooking Republicans?
• In July 2005, the U.S. Attorney in Denver decided not to pursue a matter in which bouncers at a Bush event impersonated Secret Service agents to throw out three law-abiding ticket-holders because of their bumper sticker (the Denver Three controversy). Did politics dictate the decision?

These and many other similar criminal activities by the Bush administration have led to the investigation of the politicization of 20 federal agencies for the express purpose of creating a single-party non-democratic state of the United States.

George Bush, Dick Cheney, and Alberto Gonzales are working hard to implement Karl Rove's vision of a single party Republican dominated authoritarian regime. Steven Biskupic is one of the members of the new, destroyed American so-called Justice system.

Carol Lam, then Republican U.S. Attorney of San Diego, successfully prosecuted the single most corrupt Congressman ever to "grace" the halls of Congress, Randy "Duke" Cunningham. This case has also led to other indictments and has ended the similarly corrupt careers of Republican Representatives Jerry Lewis and John Doolittle. Carol Lam was then fired as U.S. Attorney December 7, 2006.

Biskupic has prosecuted an innocent person for the specific purpose of creating an issue that can be used by the Republican candidate for governor of Wisconsin to replace the otherwise well-respected Democrat, Doyle. Biskupic was pressured by the Department of Justice to do something to sway that election, as indicated by his position on the firing list of U. S. Attorneys, and as confirmed by his removal from that list after he convicted the innocent Georgia Thompson for a non-crime. That he did this was made perfectly clear by the Appeals Court who threw out the conviction. Biskupic is still the U. S. Attorney in Milwaukee under Alberto Gonzales and George W. Bush.

It looks to me like it could be time for a special prosecutor to investigate the Republican Party in the Federal government under the RICO statutes.

Can there be any doubt that the Republican Party is in fact a corrupt organization? All of the growing evidence says yes, and there are no countering defenses.