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

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 by 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 agreement under which legislative leaders promised in 2003 that legislators ...

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