Former Assembly Majority Leader Bill Kramer has entered a new plea of “no contest” to sexual assault charges, according to a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel report on Thursday.
The Journal Sentinel also reported that the Waukesha County District Attorney’s Office will recommend a sentence of up to nine months of jail time and three years of probation.
Kramer was facing charges of second-degree sexual assault — now reduced to fourth-degree sexual assault as part of the plea bargain — for pushing a woman and groping her after a Republican Party event in Muskego in 2011. He has also been accused of other episodes of harassment in Washington, D.C., earlier this year.
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Kramer had previously pleaded not guilty to the sexual assault charges, and was scheduled to go on trial next week.
He was ousted as majority leader in March soon after the sexual assault allegations surfaced. However, he remains the Assembly representative for the state’s 97th District despite demands for him to resign.
A Republican realtor named Scott Allen is currently running unopposed for his seat.
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