Posted on 08/22/2009 9:04:09 PM PDT by smokingfrog
Ken Jacob locked eyes with "Skip" Ohlsen and asked him a simple question.
"What's your name?"
"Skip," said Ohlsen.
Jacob was in no mood to play games. It was early 2005. Just months removed from a 20-year career as an influential Missouri lawmaker, the Democrat from Columbia was now in his new job working for a union in the capital city. He had been to a few meetings with Ohlsen and, like other Democratic operatives, had begun to question the man's credentials.
Something just didn't feel right.
The former minority leader of the Senate, known for his combative style and no-nonsense attitude, asked again.
"What's your name?" Jacob asked. "Your real name."
The answer, the one Jacob would never get from Ohlsen, is this: Milton Harold Ohlsen III.
The question — then as now — is what was this convicted felon doing giving advice to some of the leading Democratic minds in Missouri?
LITTLE-KNOWN OPERATIVE
From 2004 to 2006, Ohlsen was a bit player on the Democratic scene who worked in the shadows of the campaign world. His name doesn't show up anywhere in campaign finance reports, either as a donor or campaign worker. About the only place his name does show up in a political context is in Federal Election Commission documents that tie him to a complaint filed against Jeff Smith over Smith's failed 2004 congressional run.
Smith, now a state senator, and state Rep. Steve Brown, who volunteered on that campaign, are being investigated by the FBI for their role in alleged law-breaking in relation to that campaign, according to two high-level state government sources. Smith, of St. Louis, and Brown, of Clayton, are both Democrats.
Ohlsen, 37, faces his own legal problems, having pleaded guilty in May to federal mortgage and gun charges...
(Excerpt) Read more at stltoday.com ...
Long rap sheet. Of course, it can all be “explained.”
Who else would advise Democrats ? Law-abiding citizens ?
They’re all picking on him!
Damn, he can’t even use the race card. I know, I know...”I’m being persecuted because I have an aristocratic name. Hell, I’m even Milton the III”.
A con man cons a con man. Wow.
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