Former State Employee Fighting Sex Charges Filed Against him in Waukesha

A 48-year-old Sun Prairie man, whose partner is a former Gov. Scott Walker campaign worker, is fighting felony sex-related charges accusing him of exchanging sexually explicit text messages with a 17-year-old teen and attempting to meet the teen in Waukesha.

The man, Brian Pierick, is charged with two felonies after investigators found text messages between Pierick and a 17-year-old Waukesha high school boy, according to the criminal complaint. The incident was discovered while investigators in a looked at phone records from Pierick and his partner, Timothy Russell, a former Gov. Scott Walker campaign worker who faces felony embezzlement charges in Milwaukee County.

Pierick’s attorney, Maura McMahon, asked Judge Patrick Haughney to dismiss the case Thursday morning, according to online court records, “for lack of probable cause.” Haughney will deliver a decision on the motion at 10 a.m. Feb. 24.

Pierick previous was employed as an office operations associate with the State of Wisconsin’s School Improvement Grants/Education for Homeless Children and Youth, according to a criminal complaint filed in

The 20-page criminal complaint details graphic text messages that were sent between the two individuals. The two met on Craigslist, according to the complaint, and the boy originally claimed he was 19.

The two stopped texting after an incident on Nov. 21, 2010, where Pierick attempted to bring pornography to the juvenile. Pierick wanted the juvenile to get into the van where sexually activity was planned, the complaint alleges. The juvenile would not get in the van, which was parked at Fox River Parkway and Water View Lane, ruining Pierick’s plans, according to the criminal complaint.

Pierick told the boy to never text him again at that point, the complaint states.