The Wisconsin Ethics Commission announced in a Friday that the Wisconsin county prosecutors of Chippewa, Florence and Langlade Counties have declined to pursue felony charges for conspiring to evade campaign finance laws against the fundraising committee for former President
Donald Trump and Wisconsin state Rep. Janel Brandtjen (R) due to “a conflict of interest.” The commission had previously found probable cause that former
President Trump and Brandtjen conspired to evade campaign finance laws in their to unseat Speaker of the Assembly Robin Vos (R) with Rep. Adam Steen (R). Vos had angered Trump when he fired a former State
Supreme Court justice hired to investigate Trump’s allegations of
election fraud. allows unlimited donations to political parties and donations of up to $1,000 to a State Assembly Representative’s campaign. The Ethic Commission alleged Trump, Brandjen and others in the
Republican Party took advantage of the unlimited donations to political parties. Donors who wanted to donate more than $1,000 were instructed to donate to the Langlade County Republican Party, with “63” written on the memo line. 63 is Steen’s Assembly District number. Using this tactic, Steen raised over $40,000, including $5,000 from Trump’s Save America PAC. The Chippewa County District Attorney Wade Newell told the he will not pursue prosecution because he is a member of the Republican Party, which could potentially be charged in the matter. Florence County District Attorney Doug Drexler in a letter that he is declining to prosecute because he has been a member of the Republican Party in the county for over 30 years and has performed legal services for the party in that time. The Langlade County District Attorney informed the commission in a letter that she would not prosecute due to a conflict of interest but did not detail what the conflict was. This is not the end of prosecution in these three counties. The memo stated the charges will be referred to one of each county’s contiguous districts. Stamp Act passed by
British Parliament On March 22, 1765, the British Parliament passed the Stamp Act, a revenue-raising measure under which all pamphlets, almanacs, newspapers, bonds, notes, leases, insurance policies, and legal papers had thenceforward to be issued on stamped paper that could only be purchased from the king's officers.
American colonists objected to the Act, saying that Parliament did not have the right to impose duties and taxes on a people who were not represented in the House of Commons. Review the terms of the and see the of October 1765, petitioning for repeal. Arab League formed On March 22, 1945, the was formed in Cairo,
Egypt to promote the cultural and political interests of the Arab World. Since then, the original six-nation roster of Egypt,
Syria,
Saudi Arabia, Transjordan (now Jordan),
Lebanon, and
Iraq has now expanded to twenty-two member states. Read the and a of the Arab League from the
BBC.