Bill Kramer

Overview

Wisconsin Republican Assembly Majority Leader Bill Kramer was forced to resign his leadership role in March 2014 and later pleaded no-contest to two counts of sexual assault stemming from a 2011 incident in which he groped a female GOP staffer. He was sentenced to five months in jail plus three years’ probation.

Description

A GOP staffer reported that on April 8, 2011, following a Republican event at a Muskego bar, Kramer grabbed her breasts and her groin. Kramer was arrested in March 2014 after the staffer came forward; the Assembly stripped him of his majority leader position the same month. He pleaded no-contest to two counts of sexual assault and was sentenced in 2014 to five months in county jail with three years of probation. He did not return to office.