A Wisconsin State Senate special committee on oversight is sending a clear message to Attorney General Josh Kaul: end the use of privately funded Special Assistant Attorneys General (SAAGs), particularly those whose salaries and benefits are paid by billionaire Michael Bloomberg.

After reviewing thousands of documents to evaluate the SAAG program in Wisconsin and elsewhere, the Special Committee on Oversight of the Department of Justice (WI DOJ) outlined their recommendations in a 165 page report published on Tuesday. Chief among them is a “formal legislative resolution” concluding that the state DOJ’s use of SAAGs paid by third-party sources is both “unlawful” and “unethical.”

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