The U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago on Tuesday upheld the conviction of former Milwaukee Ald. MICHAEL McGEE on federal corruption charges despite the improper use of a telephone wiretap recording as evidence. See the opinion: http://www.ca7.uscourts.gov/tmp/ZJ0TYK7S.pdf.
A judicial panel has recommended that Cudahy Judge JOHN ZODROW be reprimanded for allowing a backlog of some 3,500 citations to build up. The panel wrote that its recommendation would have been “much more severe” for Zodrow if he were still on the bench. He lost his re-election bid this spring, and his last day in office was April 30. See the recommendation: http://wispolitics.com/1006/100719_JDP_Recommendation.pdf.
Quarles and Brady Chairman JOHN W. DANIELS Jr. has been named chair of the Greater Milwaukee Foundation Board of Directors, while Quarles and Brady attorney KATHLEEN A. GRAY was elected to serve on the Board of Directors of the Waukesha County Community Foundation.
*See the Daniels announcement: http://www.wispolitics.com/index.iml?Article=202120.
*See the Gray announcement: http://wispolitics.com/index.iml?Article=203788.
Racine Mayor JOHN DICKERT has been appointed to the Mayors Water Council of the United States Conference of Mayors. See the announcement: http://wispolitics.com/index.iml?Article=203386.
