The original complaint Scocos filed on Dec. 10, 2009 wound up in Dane County Circuit Judge John Albert’s court, and the second suit Scocos filed July 27, 2011 was assigned to Judge Maryann Sumi.
Sarah Troupis of the Troupis law office filed the motion to consolidate.
The first suit awaits assignment in the Wisconsin Court of Appeals District 4.
It’s been more than two years since the Veterans Affairs Board fired John Scocos, with cause.
The disgruntled ex-secretary immediately sued the state over a dubious USERRA claim even though he’d returned to his old job at the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs.
(He’s been on the federal or state payroll since then.)
Now after the Fitz boys gave Scott Walker control over the secretary and the board their Teflon Man appears to have found a lifetime gig.
Given free reign with insider politics to exercise the power of a king, Scocos has larded up agency operations with his handpicked minions, and Walker has replaced viable members of the board with Republican cronies.
In light of all this it’s doubtful the courts can find anything worthwhile in any of these politically-motivated partisan maneuvers perpetrated by the Walker administration. Scocos likes to remind anyone who will listen that he is now a cabinet member.
