Attorney for a Walker aide says the new Walker Defense Fund suggests Walker -is- under investigation

Of course there is the desire to make it look as though your client was just doing the bidding of his boss when he broke the law. And we can't be sure that line of reasoning also suggests that your client is willing to talk about how the boss communicated his biddings, but it's still interesting to see the fire getting close enough to Walker that he's looking for help with asbestos underwear....

http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/noquarter/walker-sets-up-legaldefense-fund-f64gqrb-142164553.html


At the front end of the article we get this: Several election lawyers said creation of the defense fund serves as a tacit acknowledgment that Walker is under investigation for election law violations. "If you create a legal-defense fund, you are either being investigated, being charged with or have been convicted of a criminal violation of Chapter 11 or Chapter 12," said retired state election lawyer George Dunst, referring to the statutes dealing with campaign finance and election fraud."

To which the Walker camp responds ."We reiterate that Gov. Walker has been told that he is not a target of this investigation," Matthews said.


Toward the end we get this: "Michael Maistelman, an election lawyer who is representing former Walker aide Tim Russell in the John Doe investigation, said people could draw conclusions from Walker's decision to create a defense fund. "The only way you can set that up is if you are under investigation or being prosecuted," Maistelman said. "One can only draw the conclusion that either one of those two things is happening.""

Many of us will of course remember the education we got on the use of the words 'target of investigation' as Fitzpatrick investigated the 'person of interest' Scooter Libby.