Fired Alaskan Public Safety Commissioner: Palin Is Lying

By Eric on September 4, 2008

Former Alaska Public Safety Commissoner Walt Monegan comes out and says it:

In a telephone interview Wednesday, Walt Monegan, the former Alaskan Public Safety Commissioner, said he was dismissed because he refused to fire the Governor’s former brother-in-law, a state trooper.

 

“I believe I was fired because of, primarily the reason of her former brother-in-law,” Monegan said. “I think that my unwillingness to take special action against her former brother-in-law was not well received.”

 

Monegan says he believes that the Governor has not told the truth about what happened.

 

“I think there are some questions now that, coming to light about how transparent and how honest she wants to be,” Monegan said.

Watch the ABC News report.

Update: In other Troopergate news, Alaska’s police officer’s union has filed an ethics complaint against the Governor’s office.

An ethics complaint obtained by NBC News was filed yesterday by the police officers’ union in Alaska, requesting a probe into possible wrongdoing by the governor or her office. It was brought on behalf of state trooper, Mike Wooten, the ex-brother in law of Palin, who is at the center of the “Troopergate” scandal.

The complaint alleges that the governor or her staff may have have improperly disclosed information from Wooten’s personnel records. The complaint alleges “criminal penalties may apply.”

“It seems obvious to us somebody has improperly accessed [Wooten's] personnel file,” John Cyr, director of the union that filed the complaint, told NBC News.

Tags: 2008, Sarah Palin, Troopergate, Walt Monegan

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