MILWAUKEE (WTAQ) – Former Milwaukee County Walker aide Kelly Rindfleisch was scheduled to begin her six-month jail term Wednesday.
Court records show that Rindfleisch was to report to the Milwaukee’s House of Correction, and will apparently be transferred to Sauk County.
She pleaded guilty to misconduct in office, for helping run a secret political e-mail system in the county executive’s office when Governor Scott Walker ran that office. She also admitted campaigning for Republican Brett Davis for lieutenant governor when she was supposed to be working as Walker’s deputy chief of staff.
Rindfleisch was allowed to exhaust her appeals before starting her jail term. The State Supreme Court recently refused to consider overturning her conviction.
Rindfleisch was one of six Walker aides and associates convicted in a John Doe which netted charges ranging from illegal campaigning to embezzlement.
(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)