News 02.28.18
28 February 2018 News
A trial date is been set for a former union steward at Fond du Lac’s Sadoff Iron and Metal, accused of stealing thousands of dollars from the company. Donald Krueger is scheduled to go on trial May 22 on charges of racketeering and theft. Krueger is accused of taking cash in exchange for accepting scrap automobiles loaded with dirt and debris to inflate the value of the scrap metal. The owner of Fox Valley Metal of Oshkosh and a truck driver from Fox Valley Metal were also charged in the scheme. The owner of Sadoff told detectives his company was defrauded in excess of $100,000.
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A jury trial is scheduled for one of nine people arrested last spring in connection with a heroin bust in Fond du lac and Winnebago counties. Richard Ferguson is charged with three counts of manufacture-delivery of heroin. A four day jury trial is scheduled to begin April 9. He is being held in the Fond du Lac County Jail on $500,000 cash bond.
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Gov. Scott Walker signs into law a measure that’s designed to stabilize the health insurance market under the Affordable Care Act in Wisconsin, even as fellow Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel has filed a new lawsuit to block the federal law. Walker signed a $200 million reinsurance bill into law on Tuesday. On Monday, Schimel joined with 19 other attorneys general in filing a federal lawsuit in Texas arguing that the individual mandate is unconstitutional and the entire law should be blocked. Walker has been a longtime critic of the law known as Obamacare, and argued for years it should be repealed and replaced. But this year he’s pushed the reinsurance proposal as a way to stabilize the market and lower costs for the roughly 200,000 people in Wisconsin who purchase insurance under the law.
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Former employees of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources are among those questioning the agency’s decision to allow a Georgia company to fill in rare wetlands for a frack sand processing facility. The employees testified at a hearing Monday in Tomah where the DNR is defending its decision against a challenge by the Ho-Chunk Nation and Clean Wisconsin. A project that allows Meteor Timber to fill in about 16 acres of wetland in Monroe County is on hold. A hearing before an administrative law judge could last all week. Wetlands ecologist Patricia Trochlell, a former DNR employee, says she’s never seen a permit issued for such a large chunk of high-quality wetlands. Meteor has proposed to restore more than 630 acres of other land near Millston, the project site.
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