The allegations are explosive.
Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm has used the power of his office to conduct two secret investigations of Gov. Scott Walkerbecause Chisholm’s wife is a teachers union shop steward bitterly opposed to Walker’s anti-union policies. Right-wing talk radio quickly jumped on the story and ran with it for several days this week.
The source for reporter Stuart Taylor Jr.’slengthy article in Legal Newsline: a “longtime Chisholm subordinate” who is now a “former staff prosecutor in Chisholm’s office.”
Only those descriptions are not accurate. Not even close.
No Quarter has confirmed that the source making the allegations is a figure well-known in Milwaukee’s legal community — but not for his prosecutorial record.
Michael W. Lutz, 44, is a former Milwaukee cop involved in several high-profile incidents during his 17 years on the force who receives taxpayer-funded duty disability pay for post-traumatic stress disorder. He got his law license less than four years ago and is now a criminal defense attorney.
But here is the shocker: Lutz issued a death threat, apparently during a drunken rage, against the prosecutor and his family last year — a charge not in dispute, though it was never prosecuted.
(H/t Brendan Fischer)