Article: Taxpayers may foot legal bills: Jensen, Foti, Schultz never signed deal promising to pay if convicted.

Byline: Steven Walters

Mar. 21--Madison -- Wisconsin taxpayers have paid $163,757 in legal bills for two former Assembly Republican leaders and one of their aides convicted in the Capitol corruption scandal -- bills that won't be paid unless the sentencing judge orders repayment, state officials say.

The $163,757 in legal bills were submitted lawyers on behalf of former Assembly Speaker Scott Jensen (R-Town of Brookfield), ex-Majority Leader Steve Foti (R-Oconomowoc) and former GOP fund-raising aide Sherry Schultz before they were charged in mid-October 2002.

The judge will have to order repayment because Jensen, Foti and Schultz didn't sign an ...

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