APCO Worldwide’s Chicago office received a $10K payment from a legal defense fund for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in May, according to campaign finance records.
The payment, which came weeks after Walker won a contentious recall election in the Badger State, came from the Scott Walker Trust and was made alongside other outlays to law firms totaling more than $155K.
The Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, which highlighted the filing, said the trust is a fund created to pay Walker’s legal expenses associated with a three-year-old investigation by the Milwaukee County district attorney into former Walker aides when he was the county’s executive.
Tilden Katz, an attorney who heads APCO’s Chicago office, and an APCO spokeswoman did not return inquiries from O’Dwyer’s.