randall s preliminary injunction, saying he had overstepped his authority. the appeals court ruling also said randa cannot order prosecutors to destroy evidence they have collected in the five-county probe. of course, judge randa s frequenting of conservative conferences is one of the many ways right wing money attempts to influence senators. and there s a case to be made, this kind of ideological lobbying has been the koch brothers and others greatest success story today. joining me now is nick confe confessory, who is on the money and politics beat a way others are. this is not lake, the reason you ruled for judge walker is because you got some free breakfast in a hotel room. the point is that we focus so much now on, americans for prosperity and the koch brothers in the post citizens united,
prosecutors to destroy evidence they have collected in the five-county probe. of course, judge randa s frequenting of conservative conferences is one of the many ways right wing money attempts to influence senators. and there s a case to be made, this kind of ideological lobbying has been the koch brothers and others greatest success story today. joining me now is nick confessory, who is on the money and politics beat a way others are. this is not lake, the reason you ruled for judge walker is because you got some free breakfast in a hotel room. the point is that we focus so much now on, americans for prosperity and the koch brothers in the post citizens united, spending money directly on candidates, there s this entire iceberg beneath the water that they ve been building for decades to influence all kinds of americans.
and randa says in the opinion, you ve got subpoenas going all over the country, you ve got to reign this in. who wants those documents destroyed because of what s in those documents. nick, thank you so much. coming up, the latest on the scandal that s rocked the v.a. turns out the allegations made by the whistle-blower are right. the details, next.
presidential aspirate, it s never going to be a good day when there s news like this about an investigation into your campaign finance. a judge who ended walker probe attended finance by junkets financed by koch, bradley, and other conservative foundations. a analyst by the center for media and democracy shows the that judge rudolph randa attended seminars put on by george mason university in 2006, 2008, 2010, and 2012, according to publicly available financial disclosure forms. the george mason university seminars are bankrolled by a long list of foundations like the charles g. koch foundation, the linde and harry bradley foundation, and the searle freedom trust, in addition to u.s. corporations like ge, and dow capital. that judge who attended those meetings is a reliable conservative of the branch, gained some notoriety for striking down a law, a ruling
sort of deregulation and free markets and stuff like that. they ve been really successful in moving the center of legal opinion. well, look, you can t lobby a judge. right. but you can wine and dine them. you can take them to a seminar. you can educate them, teach them new ideas about anti-trust and regulation, and that s what they do. if you look at his decision, by the way, in that wisconsin case, what s fascinating about it is not the substance, because you can argue that the prosecutions were pushing the envelope a little bit on their theory of the coordination in that case with scott walker. what was striking about it was the tone, where he celebrates and says, if they can find a way to evade these campaign laws, great. fantastic. so this investigation, basically, is, look at the recall election, as far as we know, from previous reports, in which they are, you know, prosecutors think it may be the case they violated wisconsin campaign finance law by essentially coordinatin