WEDC spokesman resigns month after hire (owes $44,000 in back taxes to the State of Wisconsin.)

And the hits just keep coming from Scott Walker's clown college





MADISON (WKOW) -- The man hired to help the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation with its public image resigned late Monday after WKOW-TV made inquiries about income tax and unemployment insurance compensation debts of close to $44,000 he owes the State of Wisconsin.

John Gillespie, who WEDC brought in as its new Public Information Officer on April 8, owes $36,047 in back taxes to the State of Wisconsin, according to the Department of Revenue's delinquent taxpayer list.

In a separate case, a court record from Outagamie County shows the Department of Workforce Development filed a warrant against Gillespie in March of 2012, seeking $7,770 for unemployment insurance compensation benefits he had improperly received.

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Gillespie's resignation comes less than a week after a scathing state audit of WEDC showed the agency has violated state statute by improperly tracking the loans and job creation efforts of the companies it has awarded money to since June of 2011. The audit showed WEDC also awarded money to ineligible projects and failed to keep track of its internal spending as well.



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