Dispute Over Wisconsin Settlements Continue
Thursday, September 5th, 2019 -- 11:44 AM
(WRN) -The dispute of who's going to handle Wisconsin's lawsuits continues.The Joint Finance Committee was supposed to meet on Wednesday to go over some settlements with Attorney General Josh Kaul, but that meeting was cancelled by Republicans who say Kaul still isn't giving them enough information to work with. Here's Co Chair John Nygren.
"Making an educated decision without all the information is irresponsible, so we're going to again ask for it, and hope that he can get it to us so we can meet on the settlements."
Nygren says he wants to know exactly what sort of funding the state is going to be getting out of these settlements.
"Our ultimate goal here, everybody's goal, should be to protect the taxpayer. But we need more information than what we have been given."
Nygren says J F C wants to know everything about these cases in order to protect taxpayers and find out where the settlement money is going.
"That is why it's unfortunate that the A G would withhold information that the committee has requested."
Attorney General Josh Kaul says he won't turn over that information until the J F C signs a non disclosure agreement. He says that if J F C wants to have the authority to handle settlements, they need to take on the responsibility to maintain confidentiality.
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