Gov. Mike Dunleavy did not orchestrate the firing of former Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. CEO Angela Rodell, a special investigation has concluded. via AlaskaBeacon:
When trustees balked at voluntarily speaking with the special investigator, the committee sought and obtained subpoena powers from Senate President Peter Micciche, R-Soldotna, and Speaker of the House Louise Stutes, R-Kodiak.agreed to voluntary interviewsDuring those interviews, trustees outlined their reasons for discontent, which included a summer 2021 press release outlining plans for the corporation’s shutdown if legislative budget negotiations failed.
“I had no idea where this came from. It had, I think, an adverse impact on the fund because it unnecessarily frightened the public, and I thought it was absolutely out of bounds,” Feige said.Rodell made the statement a week before the shutdown deadline, before the governor’s office released a list of which offices would be affected.
The other was Revenue Commissioner Lucinda Mahoney, who said she was concerned by an October 2021 board of trustees meeting in which Rodell hired a mediator to work between her and the board on issues of executive pay.Board member Ethan Schutt, now the board’s chair, expressed similar concerns about the October meeting, during which Mahoney and Feige supported an unsuccessful move to eliminate some proposed Permanent Fund staff pay.
The special investigation found flaws in the conduct of the employee survey, but concluded that even without the survey, trustees had sufficient reasons to fire her.
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