The F.B.I. has served a search warrant on a top aide to Wisconsin Governor, Scott Walker. The aide is Cynthia Archer, who had been one of Walker's top aides while he was Milwaukee County Executive. Ms. Archer moved to Madison with Walker and has recently left her top job with the Department of Administration for "personal reasons." She was already appointed to another state job paying top dollar, but hadn't started it yet.
I didn't want to be the one to put this diary up. mandolinoment posted a one line dairy with link to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article. We couldn't get that diarist to put enough meat on the post to get it recommended so that people would see it.
F.B.I. agents were seen at Archer's Madison East Side neighborhood wearing gloves and removing what appeared to be documents stored in bankers boxes. An F.B.I. agent was quoted as saying, "We're doing an enforcement action." Enforcement of what? The JS has this to say
The raid on Archer's home coincides with a growing John Doe investigation in Milwaukee County, started last year after the disclosure that another Walker staffer at the county had posted political commentary on websites while on her job in the county executive's office. As part of the investigation, authorities earlier seized the work computers of two former Walker staffers and executed a search warrant of one of their homes.
And the JS adds:
The governor's campaign retained f ormer U.S. Attorney Steven Biskupic after it received a subpoena for campaign email shortly before last year's November election. His campaign has paidnearly $60,000 to Biskupic's firm, Michael Best & Friedrich, in the first half of the year.
Archer's neighbors said about a dozen law enforcement officers arrived Wednesday sometime before 7 a.m. One agent took photos of the house, and others wore jackets that said they were responsible for gathering evidence.
Film at eleven
For those of us who know and love Madison, especially it's East Side, this is the Atwood neighborhood, right behind the Atwood Theater and just down the street from the Atwood Community Center. A strange and disconcerting (and highly inappropriate) place for any Republican to live. Speaking for me personally, Ms. Archer deserves to be arrested for even trying to live -- as a high ranking Republican appratchik -- in this wonderful neighborhood that was my home for almost ten years.