By Alison Dirr
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A deputy city attorney in Milwaukee City Attorney Tearman Spencer’s office has continued appearing in court on behalf of his private law firm even as he was under scrutiny over allegations that he was performing private work on city time, Milwaukee’s inspector general said Monday.
Inspector General Ronda Kohlheim told a Common Council committee that Deputy City Attorney Odalo Ohiku had appeared in court in private cases in July, August, September and, most recently, in juvenile court on Nov. 7.
She was before the Judiciary and Legislation Committee to discuss her report in which she recommended the Milwaukee County district attorney bring criminal charges against Spencer and Ohiku after she concluded Ohiku was allowed to do work for his law firm while on the city clock.
“To my knowledge, they are still reviewing it, I’ll say that,” she told the Journal Sentinel after the meeting. “Whether there will be criminal charges I don’t know.”
Kohlheim said that she planned to file an addendum to the report if she determined that Ohiku had not taken the appropriate time off to appear in court on the new dates and would provide that information to the District Attorney’s Office as well.
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