Gov Walker steals from mortgage settlement fund

[Riot]

Can everyone stop pretending that this liar balanced the budget? He didn't, and he "newly reveals" he didn't. It's only balanced by using cash accounting tricks, rather than general approved accounting practices, like he promised.

And to cover his shortfall, he is stealing millions from the citizens of Wisconsin from the mortgage settlement fund. Citizens who have already contacted the lead Attorney in the settlement to see if this is even legal.

What a despicable loser this man is. Stealing more from his citizens. That money is settlement for the victims of mortgage fraud and wrongful foreclosure

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Wisconsin will use a chunk of its $140 million share of a national settlement over foreclosure and mortgage-servicing abuses to help the state budget rather than assist troubled homeowners, Gov. Scott Walker and state Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen said Thursday.

Walker and Van Hollen said the majority of the settlement amount earmarked to Wisconsin under a $25 billion proposed nationwide agreement announced Thursday still would go to aid consumers in Milwaukee and other communities struggling with the specter of home foreclosure.

But of a $31.6 million payment coming directly to the state government, most of that money - $25.6 million - will go to help close a budget shortfall revealed in newly released state projections. Van Hollen, whose office said he has the legal authority over the money, made the decision in consultation with Walker.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/wiscons...139014139.html

State faces massive budget deficit/shortfall, and the only state in the country to have six straight months of job losses

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepo...139047659.html