Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel aide gets 17.5% pay bump
MADISON – Attorney General Brad Schimel gave his official spokesman a 17.5% raise in February, six months after his campaign stopped paying him.
The increase means that spokesman Johnny Koremenos — Schimel's campaign manager in 2014 — is keeping his same take-home pay, but is now having it paid entirely by taxpayers instead of partly by Schimel’s campaign.
Schimel put Koremenos on the state payroll soon after he won. For the next year and a half, Koremenos performed work for the Republican attorney general’s official office as well as his campaign, collecting paychecks from both.
Such an arrangement is allowed but unusual. Koremenos defended the practice in July 2016, but stopped taking money from the campaign a week later, after the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel wrote about the practice. Koremenos has continued to perform work for the campaign, but now does it as a volunteer.
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