WISCONSIN (WTAQ-WRN) — A former state Senator is headed to prison.
A federal judge in Madison sentenced 61-year-old Kevin Shibilski of Merrill to 33 months in prison.
Shibilski, a Democrat who represented central Wisconsin in the Senate from 1995 to 2002, pled guilty in April to willfully not paying federal employment taxes for two companies linked to 5R Processors. That Ladysmith-based firm illegally stored and disposed of broken and crushed glass from lead-tainted cathode ray tubes at facilities in Wisconsin and Tennessee.
Shibilksi ran the operation a decade ago and was indicted in 2020.
Shibilski was sentenced on Tuesday by U.S. District Judge James Peterson.
