Feds looking into Wis. travel contract case
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is investigating the prosecution of Georgia Thompson, a Wisconsin state employee wrongly imprisoned for corruption.
The department makes the revelation in a letter to the House Judiciary Committee, which released it this week.
The Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility is investigating allegations of „selective prosecution“ in several cases, including Thompson’s.
The office is the department’s internal ethics board. It also has been looking into whether politics played a part in the firing of the nine U.S. attorneys.
Thompson was convicted of steering a travel contract to a company with political ties to Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle. But a federal appeals court ordered her freed from prison last year, ruling she did not commit a crime.
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