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TexasTowelie

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Sat Sep 16, 2017, 07:55 PM Sep 2017

Ethics panel forever bans state government employee who hired aunt, sister, stepdaughter

An ethics panel found Thursday that a former state administrator violated Indiana’s nepotism law by hiring three relatives to work at her agency.

The Indiana State Ethics Commission unanimously approved banning former Department of Homeland Security administrator Leann Walton from ever working in state government.

IndyStar was the first to report Walton was fired as the agency’s chief financial officer in August 2016.

Emails produced through an investigation by Inspector General’s office show Walton hired her aunt, sister and stepdaughter to positions in the agency. Walton’s aunt and sister were in her direct line of supervision. Her stepdaughter worked in another division.

Read more: http://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2017/09/14/ethics-panel-forever-bans-state-government-employee-hired-aunt-sister-stepdaughter/105606782/

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Ethics panel forever bans state government employee who hired aunt, sister, stepdaughter (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2017 OP
Imagine that, hiring relatives is a big no no, or it was anyway Eliot Rosewater Sep 2017 #1

Eliot Rosewater

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1. Imagine that, hiring relatives is a big no no, or it was anyway
Sat Sep 16, 2017, 08:11 PM
Sep 2017

still is in Indiana I guess

not in DC

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