Wisconsin: Eisenga Contributions to Kleefisch Illegal if Claims of Fraud are True
http://uppitywis.org/blogarticle/gab-eisenga-contributions-kleefisch-illegal-if-claims-fraud-are
Mike Eisenga, the guy who allegedly tried to cheat his kids out of child support payments by buying off the husband of Wisconsin Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch, State Rep. Joel Kleefisch, could be in much deeper trouble with the Government Accountability Board for contributions he allegedly made in his wife's name without her knowledge or consent.
According to campaign finance records kept by the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, donations were made by Eisenga's wife, Clare, on four different occasions to Republican candidates-- three to Joel Kleefisch's assembly campaigns and one to Mark Green's gubernatorial campaign. Each of these contributions came only after Mike Eisenga had already reached his maximum individual contribution limit.
Michael Collins, the attorney for Mike Eisenga's former wife, Clare Hawthorne, said in an email, that his client, "had no knowledge of the contributions." He added, "it never occurred to her, until I found that contributions had been made in her name, that Michael would do that or had done that." Collins also says that Hawthorne is liberal in her political leanings and would have never consented to a contribution being made in her name to Republican candidates.
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Richard Bohringer, a campaign auditor for the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board, said in an email that is in violation Section11.24(1) of the Wisconsin Statutes for a husband or wife to give to political campaign in the name of their spouse, without the consent of the donor spouse.
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