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HELENA — Allegations that a high-profile state-appointed attorney broke some of the very same campaign practices laws he was hired to prosecute have been dropped.
April 20, 2018 https://montanafreepress.org/2018/04/20/eaton_vs_jarussi_dismissed/HELENA – A dark money political organization that spent hundreds of thousands of dollars during the 2012 election to support conservative candidates for office has settled a lawsuit accusing it of violating Montana’s campaign finance laws.
April 13, 2018 https://montanafreepress.org/2018/04/13/mgn_settlement/Gene Jarussi, the state special attorney general in charge of litigating a series of lawsuits against political candidates for illegal campaign activities, is now himself facing allegations of political misconduct.
December 14, 2017 https://montanafreepress.org/2017/12/14/eaton-vs-jarussi/Just days after the Montana Supreme Court upheld a verdict in the high-profile political corruption lawsuit against former Bozeman lawmaker Art Wittich, a fellow former Republican lawmaker from Livingston has admitted he broke Montana campaign laws in his 2010 primary race.
August 25, 2017 https://montanafreepress.org/2017/08/25/wagman-reaches-settlement-in-wake-of-wittich-decision/The Montana Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed with a lower court’s finding that former Republican state lawmaker Art Wittich violated Montana’s campaign finance laws when he illegally coordinated with third-party political groups during his 2010 primary election campaign.
August 23, 2017 https://montanafreepress.org/2017/08/23/high-court-upholds-verdict-in-wittich-corruption-case/By John S. Adams, Editor-in-Chief
HELENA —It took a jury of six men and six women four hours Friday to find Bozeman Republican lawmaker Art Wittich illegally coordinated with non-profit third-party political groups during his 2010 primary election campaign.
April 1, 2016 https://montanafreepress.org/2016/04/01/jury-wittich-illegally-coordinated/By John S. Adams, Editor-in-Chief
HELENA — State Rep. Art Wittich, the man accused of accepting illegal in-kind contributions and services from conservative nonprofit groups during his 2010 Senate race, took the witness stand in his own defense Thursday in Lewis and Clark County District Court.
March 31, 2016 https://montanafreepress.org/2016/03/31/testimony-winds-down-in-corruption-trial/Sarah (Anderson) Arnold, a former Right to Work employee, fields questions from Quentin Rhoades, Rep. Art Wittich’s attorney.
March 29, 2016 https://montanafreepress.org/2016/03/29/former-right-to-work-staffers-take-stand-in-wittich-trial/