South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem's daughter was given an extra chance to obtain real estate license.
(CNN)The former state employee who is at the center of the controversy over whether South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem intervened to help her daughter obtain a real estate appraiser license testified before state lawmakers on Tuesday that Noem's daughter was given an extra chance to correct her work so that her application would not be denied and that the state's process for handling her application was unusual.
Sherry Bren, the former executive director of the South Dakota Appraiser Certification Program, was called to a July 27, 2020, meeting with Noem and found that Noem's daughter, Kassidy Peters, who was applying to become a state-certified real estate appraiser at that time, was also present along with other top state officials including the state's Secretary of Labor.
Before that point, Peters had experienced difficulty meeting the state's criteria to complete the process because of deficiencies in her work, documents obtained by CNN have shown.
Bren contends she was forced to retire several months later "at the behest of the Administration," as first reported by the Associated Press. Still, during testimony before the South Dakota legislature's Joint Government Operations and Audit Committee on Tuesday, Bren said that she could not speculate on the reasons why she was forced out of her job.
She filed an age discrimination complaint against the state and received a $200,000 settlement agreement.
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