Former state employee Georgia Thompson has been sentenced to eighteen months
in prison, for trying to steer a state travel contract to a Milwaukee firm whose executives are financial
backers of Governor Jim Doyle. Today’s sentence from a Republican-appointed judge may not
end the so-called Travelgate case. Chuck Quirmbach reports…
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