State Worker Pleads Not Guilty; She's Accused of Fraud in Travel Contract Case

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Georgia Thompson, the state Department of Administration official accused of illegally steering a state travel contract toward a company whose top executives donated $20,000 to Gov. Jim Doyle, has pleaded not guilty to the two felony charges.

Prosecutors have not asked Thompson to cooperate in bringing down her bosses, her attorney, Stephen Hurley, said after a brief hearing Friday in federal court in Milwaukee.

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State Worker Pleads Not Guilty; She's Accused of Fraud in Travel Contract Case

If they ask her, she will have nothing to say, Hurley said.

"They can squeeze all they want," he said. "There's nothing to squeeze out."

U.S. Attorney Steven M. Biskupic has not commented directly about attempts to gain Thompson's coopera...

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