{"id":2300,"date":"2023-04-20T01:41:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T01:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=2300"},"modified":"2023-04-20T02:04:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T02:04:28","slug":"evers-disgraced-parole-commission-director-charged-with-felony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=2300","title":{"rendered":"Evers\u2019 Disgraced Parole Commission Director Charged with Felony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/04\/19\/evers-disgraced-parole-commission-director-charged-with-felony\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=evers-disgraced-parole-commission-director-charged-with-felony\">https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/04\/19\/evers-disgraced-parole-commission-director-charged-with-felony\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=evers-disgraced-parole-commission-director-charged-with-felony<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think 96% or more of these \u201cviolence blah blah\u201d positions are just <a href=\"https:\/\/newstalk1130.iheart.com\/featured\/common-sense-central\/content\/2023-04-19-former-evers-parole-commission-chair-charged-with-felony-public-corruption\/\">BS do-nothing jobs created to facilitate graft<\/a>. Tip of the ol\u2019 hat to Dan O\u2019Donnell.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Racine Alderman John Tate II, who was forced last year to resign as Governor Evers\u2019 Parole Commission director, has been charged with a felony for allegedly using his position to approve a new $100,000-per-year job that he himself then took. The Racine County District Attorney\u2019s Office on Tuesday filed a charge of Private interest in a Public Contract While Working in a Public Capacity, a Class I felony punishable by a maximum sentence of more than three years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>According to a criminal complaint obtained exclusively by \u201cThe Dan O\u2019Donnell Show,\u201d Tate used his position as Racine\u2019s Common Council President and member of the Finance and Personnel Committee to approve a grant creating a new city position of Violence Interruption Coordinator. The position, which was described as helping \u201cto facilitate the process of creating a Racine version of a \u2018Blueprint for Peace&#8217;\u201d and would pay between $78,520.00 and $101,004.80 annually. There were 20 applicants for the position, which was advertised only from September 8-22, and Tate was one of only three to interview for the position.<\/p>\n<p>On October 11, Tate accepted a positiion as the City of Madison\u2019s Independent Police Monitor, but two days later the City of Racine offered him the position of Violence Interruption Coordinator. Tate used his new position in Madison as leverage with Racine and negotiated an annual salary of $101,698.05 (more than the advertised salary range for the position), four weeks of paid vacation, and offered an opportunity to take advantage of a $10,000 forgivable home loan program for City of Racine employees.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"et_social_bottom_trigger\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/04\/19\/evers-disgraced-parole-commission-director-charged-with-felony\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=evers-disgraced-parole-commission-director-charged-with-felony I think 96% or more of these \u201cviolence blah&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boots-sabers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2301,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions\/2301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}