Ron Johnson was asked to keep silent in ex-aide’s alleged assault
Republican Sen. Ron Johnson (Wis.) and his chief of staff did not tell police, Senate or Wisconsin officials that a former aide was allegedly sexually assaulted by a state lawmaker in April 2011, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Johnson and Tony Blando, the senator’s chief of staff, were asked by the woman and her attorney to keep the incident confidential, according to a statement from the Wisconsin Republican’s office.
But when Wisconsin state Rep. Bill Kramer - who had been elected majority leader of the Wisconsin State Assembly in Sept. 2013 - was alleged to have improperly touched and harassed two women at a February fundraiser in Washington, D.C., the former Johnson aide came forward and filed a criminal complaint against him. Kramer was charged on March 28 with two felony counts of second-degree sexual assault stemming from the April 2011 incident.
Kramer has been stripped of the post of majority leader and has announced he will not run for reelection, but he still remains in office.
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