Former Wisconsin District Attorney Kenneth Kratz argued today that it was through the “conduct, negligence and behavior” of Stephanie Van Groll that she came to sue him for sending sexually explicit text messages while he was handling her domestic abuse case.
It gets… better, for lack of another word. Full scumbaggery: TPMMuckraker, January 17, 2011
The state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Department of Justice have refused to defend former District Attorney Kenneth Kratz, who is facing a lawsuit from a woman who alleges Kratz sent her sexually suggestive text messages while he was handling her domestic abuse case.State Justice Department spokesman William Cosh … noted that it would be up to the Governor to decide whether the state should provide a defense for Kratz, which Chief Legal Counsel Susan Crawford declined to do yesterday evening.
November 15, 2010:
New court documents from the Wisconsin Department of Justice show that one of the state’s witnesses against former District Attorney Kenneth Kratz was a woman who alleged that in 1999 she had a “sexual encounter” with Kratz at her home, while he was handling her domestic abuse case against her husband.There are reportedly five women who have accused Kratz of behaving inappropriately during his time as DA, including several women who claim he sent them sexually suggestive text messages. Another woman claimed Kratz invited her on a date to an autopsy.
Read the whole sordid story at TPMMuckraker.
Claims to fame: Republican Calumet County, Wisconsin, District Attorney; chair, Wisconsin Crime Victims Right Board; husband; sexter; biblical adulterer; fool
Moral apex: The 50-year-old D.A. sent some 30 text messages to the 26-year-old victim of a domestic-abuse case he was prosecuting, allegedly in order to talk her into having an affair with him.
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