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Wisconsin Legislator Pleads Guilty to Disorderly Conduct in Feud over Hispanic Resolutions
Ortiz-Velez was fined $300 and ordered to submit a DNA sample after pleading guilty to disorderly conduct amid a dispute over Hispanic heritage resolutions.
- On Friday, State Rep. Sylvia Ortiz-Velez pleaded guilty in Milwaukee County, and Judge Paul Malloy ordered her to pay a $300 fine and submit a DNA sample.
- Amid resolution drafting, Ortiz-Velez believed an unnamed lawmaker excluded her from working on resolutions honoring Hispanic heritage and Hispanic veterans, then contacted media outlets.
- According to the criminal complaint, some of Ortiz-Velez's remarks were 'indecent and tended to disrupt the good public order', Democratic leaders said she mentioned 'shooting three caucus members', and investigators were told she threatened to spread 'negative personal information' about the resolutions' author.
- Prosecutors in Milwaukee County charged State Rep. Sylvia Ortiz-Velez in February, and under the statute she could have faced up to 90 days in jail, though she denied threatening colleagues in interviews with Wisconsin Right Now and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
- Her attorney Michael Cernin said Assembly Democrats were already upset because Ortiz-Velez’s voting on the 2025-27 state budget and legislative maps caused a rift that has been ugly and bitter, while a spokesperson for Assembly Republican Speaker Robin Vos said she shouldn’t have been banned.
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Wisconsin legislator pleads guilty to disorderly conduct in feud over Hispanic resolutions
A Wisconsin legislator has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct in connection with a bitter feud with her caucus over resolutions honoring Hispanics.
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Wisconsin lawmaker pleas guilty to disorderly conduct, accepts $300 fine
(The Center Square) – State Rep. Sylvia Ortiz-Velez, D-Milwaukee, agreed to plea guilty to a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct and will pay a $300 fine after she was charged following a Sept. 2 phone call where she reportedly threatened…
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(The Center Square) – State Rep. Sylvia Ortiz-Velez, D-Milwaukee, agreed to plea guilty to a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct and will pay a $300 fine after she was charged following a Sept. 2 phone call where she reportedly threatened…
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