Officials' court battles take time away from duties

“The burden or proof to result in charges is the lowest level of proof in Wisconsin law, and could not be met by the complainant, Ira Robins”

News of a secret investigation in Medford was leaked to the press. And then it got even more unusual. via Marshfield News-Herald

[The office whistle]

there is more to the story on The Taylor county DA

[Interested citizen]

What is the rest of the story?

[In the know]

I heard the DA caught the 2 former employees doing stuff they shouldn't have. One was using the office emaiml system to carry on an affair with a cop and the office was using the office computer to do her husband's private business.
Nice to see a DA who is willing to take the flack rather than publicly humiliate the 2 former employees

[inkling]

i hope this doesn't effect us at Sorrento Cheese.

[Disgusted and appauled]

Sick of Kelz and he has got to go!
Mmoran is right, Taylor County District Attorney Karl Kelz is sick ,he has lied and misled the people here. And for the misinformed first commenter, get your story straight before you slander people, PAUL HOFFMANN WAS NOT FIRED. We have a pretty good idea who you are so if I were you better recant before we find out. A few Rib Lake village board members and DA Kelz tried to make it look that way to cover all their lies. And they are in the position so people believe them, when if things are looked into it would be a different picture. So either you were lied to or you made this up to put it out there just like they have been doing all along. Get your facts straight and stop assuming and getting on the old ban wagon. Here is the story for your information, A Rib lake village board member was investigated for getting free land from the village while a board member. He blamed Paul and Paul had nothing to do with it. Then a friend of this village board member was picked up for drunk driving and they wanted Paul to dismiss the ticket, and Paul could not and so that is when they started going at Paul for every little thing and making up things. As was said to us, the games will begin. They got the village clerk to file a harassment complaint on Paul. The attorney’s (the clerk had the village attorney and Paul had to get is own.) said it was not harassment, leave it alone or it may be them harassing Paul. But that was not good enough, they hired a retired FBI person to investigate it again and that person said it was not harassment just like the attorney’s said, it was personality conflict. So then Rib Lake village board members said that Paul was bad mouthing them at the health care center, the center wrote a letter saying it was not true and wanted nothing to do with this. The village board member tried other little dirty things and Paul just kept on putting up with it. Paul actually put up with to much crap from these people. He did he best to try to talk to them but they were just on a rampage and would not listen. They don’t know what they had in Paul, he worked hard and brought in many programs and brought in money, he talked to the people and was fair and honest with them. This little mob spread their little lies and just put things out there and loved the gossip and just kept going. The village created a hostile work environment for Paul. This cop had no protection from this little mob. Then District Attorney Karl Kelz who came here in 2002 and in his first year went after the women in the office that were there from a pervious DA. He got rid of them in a very nasty way.(Kelz had his hands in the ridiculous squirrel feeding problem in Wausau, he went after a little old lady for feeding squirrels.) Then Kelz had his hands in getting rid of the county administrator because he stood up for one of the first women Kelz got rid of. Then Paul came along and Kelz accused Paul of missing three court dates, Paul could prove otherwise but they would not listen and just said he was a liar, but they had no proof. Kelz also had his hands in a public defender losing her job. The list just goes on, all done in unethical and nasty ways.

[Disgusted and appauled]

When Paul tried to defend himself against Kelz false allegations and tried to talk to Kelz, Kelz called him untrustworthy and would not listen and neither would the village board who had some members that had it out for Paul. Mind you they made sure they had this all in the paper. Kelz told the public then that he would not prosecute any of Paul’s cases, but yet Kelz was caught in court prosecuting Paul’s cases. So Kelz lied to the public. One of Paul’s cases Kelz prosecuted, he tried to get the person to file a complaint against Paul. The village said they had to let Paul go because he could not do his job because Kelz would not prosecute his cases. The village clerk tried to tell unemployment that Paul resigned but he did not, another lie. And they could not fire him, but they were able to just let his contract run out in 2003.(They did not even have the original contract.) Paul never received his vacation time, comp time or anything; they even lied and tried to prevent him from getting unemployment. Paul did not get a hearing, denied his legal right, nothing was ever proven. Then when Paul was on the Taylor County board, he helped two citizens who had concerns. One citizen had a hit and run and said the cops did not respond to their call. The other citizen said he believes his name got out when he called in to report underage drinking and after that he started getting harassed. Kelz took this and charged Paul with misconduct in office and obstruction to an officer for reporting these concerns of people in the county. Paul never talked to an officer, Paul took the complaints to the county board, Kelz tried to make believe another county board member was an officer, which the judge in Marathon County said no way.(Kelz did this because he knew Paul was fighting the employment thing.) Kelz charged Paul and then backed out do to a conflict of interest and got Chippewa County to prosecute, Chippewa had to back out, and they could not answer any of the judge’s questions. Then Kelz got Marathon County to prosecute and this is what the judge of Marathon county said when they saw what Kelz was really doing,(the judge also warned the prosecutor Kelz got about continuing)“I find that somewhat disconcerting given the fact that one of the greatest powers a district attorney has is the power to charge and to bring the full power of the State of Wisconsin down upon citizens by a charging decision, and it is just peculiar to me that there is a representation that there is a conflict of interest after that significant power is enacted”“Its peculiar that somebody with a conflict would make the charging decision”“maybe the best thing to do is for you to go back and make a decision as to whether or not this should have been charged in the first place.”
This tells you how sick and obsessed DA Kelz really is, Kelz tried to make believe he was just doing a job, but Kelz was hiding and lying behind the job to personally attack, because when Kelz heard the charges were dismissed, Kelz was right on the phone to get the attorney generals office to prosecute Paul, they said no.(Here you have a prosecutor who says he has a conflict but yet is behind the scenes using his position to attack people here instead of doing his job. This guy is sick because he will not stop attacking people and abusing that office.) He doesn’t care to do the right thing and gets off on going after people for ridiculous things. He has no ethics or morals.

[Disgusted and appauled]

Kelz got rid of two more woman is his office in a very nasty way after Paul, and again he made sure he was only heard and his was the only story and the woman were untrustworthy. Kelz also went above the county’s hiring practices and hired his own, ignoring Taylor counties policies, and so the county ended up paying out a large amount of money to an employee. A John Doe on Kelz was done for what he is doing to people here. A judge dismissed it due to a loop hole in the law and the victims were not allowed to speak. With this John Doe getting dismissed on Kelz, Kelz using state and county time, sent out mass emails and also put letters in each county board members box and also in the paper misleading the public again and saying the allegations were false and they were all Paul’s allegations. Kelz misled the public because they are not false allegations and there are more people involved then just Paul, who Kelz has harmed. Kelz also misled and tried to make it look like the person who brought this John Doe on Kelz was not believable because he didn’t have an investigator license. This person did not need a license because he works for an attorney and is an Investigative Consultant, seen on such shows as Larry King Live, Geraldo, Prime Time w/ Diane Swayer, Inside Edition America’s most Wanted…So Kelz when are you going to stop misleading the people?
Recently, Kelz went after a gentleman, who is around 82 years old,(see his vox pop in the Star News paper April, 18, 2008.) Kelz flew of the handle and charged this gentleman without even looking into the facts first, there was no elements to a crime. This gentleman had letters from the DNR to show what he was doing was ok, but Kelz would not look at the letters and just charged and then had to dismiss. This 82 year old gentleman went threw hell, he was booked in, picture taken and put on bond, this should not have happened. This gentleman was only doing a job when another land owner did not want a snowmobile trail on his land. How sad and how much more do we have to put up with?
When in or driving by Taylor County Wisconsin you can say good bye to the constitution.

[Sick of Paul]

Paul you loser. Just give it up.