Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign may have ended in defeat, but the campaign’s lawyers at Jones Day have succeeded for now in fending off a former Illinois state employee’s attempts to tie Romney for President Inc. to alleged racketeering.
In a ruling issued on Friday, U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow in Chicago partially disposed of a sweeping racketeering and sexual harassment lawsuit filed by Edmund Michalowski, a onetime community affairs director for the Illinois treasury office under former treasurer Dan Rutherford. Rutherford served as state treasurer from January 2011 to January 2015 and unsuccessfully ran for governor in 2014, losing in the Republican primary to current Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner.
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