The criminal complaint has some interesting info. The private security service witness Peoples saw defendant Mohammad get into a car with Illinois plates driven by Leshaunda Williams. The car had been rented to Opel Simmons III who was in Wisconsin to work for the Democratic National Committee.
It looks like the DNC in Wisconsin was taking orders from the Illinois DNC. The defendants are clearly tied to the DNC. This is a political crime, not a simple felony.
The car with Illinois plates was a rental. It's common to get a rental car with out of state plates. I don't think Illinois had anything to do with it.
I do believe, however, that this criminal conspiracy, and that's exactly what it was, operated with the explicit, or at least tacit, approval of senior democratic political operatives here on the ground in Wisconsin.
Moreover, I believe that in the context of the widespread political fraud which took place here in Wisconsin, which was clearly not a grassroots effort but a coordinated criminal conspiracy, we are looking at precisely the kind of target that the RICO statute was designed to prosecute.
Tied to the DNC? Its not mentioned in the article, but some of them (and maybe all) were employed by the Kerry campaign!