Auditor: Iowa Gov. Reynolds must return $450K in COVID funds

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By DAVID PITT

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa’s state auditor on Tuesday again called for Gov. Kim Reynolds to return nearly $450,000 in federal coronavirus relief funds that were used to pay for 21 governor’s office staff members for three months in 2020.

Auditor Rob Sand, a Democrat, released a new report that repeated his recommendation from October 2020 and last December that the funds were improperly used and should be returned.

Sand said in December that the Republican governor not only misspent the federal money but tried to conceal it by passing it through the state Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.

After that report was released, Sand said he finally received in December a 159-page packet of information he had sought repeatedly from the governor’s office to justify use of federal pandemic emergency money for her staff’s salaries.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-health-iowa-kim-reynolds-cce22888b19e49a0d8536f78f695d878

[SoCalDavidS]

1. LOL!

Good luck with that. The money's long gone, and I'll be shocked if a dime of it gets paid back.

[tavernier]

2. And isn't she giving the republican rebuttal

tonight?

[progressoid]

4. Yep...

If it's anything like her other speeches, it's going to be super cringeworthy.

[eppur_se_muova]

8. She chose to attacke Biden for "runaway inflation" -- this is a campaign commercial ready-made! nt

[xocetaceans]

3. Covid Kim is a standard-issue Trumpian GOP. n/t

[sakabatou]

5. The GOP misappropriating funds?!

Color me shocked!

[Bristlecone]

6. Take it out of farm subsidies that IA gets and make it clear

That each check/Statement has a garnishment line item that states exactly what the debit is for:

Kim Reynolds Covid Relief Misappropriation

Maybe her constituents will get the message that she doesn’t. It would not be substantial, but the adjustment would get noticed, cause this story is not on Faux News.

[StClone]

7. Bushels cash, bales of money, bins of lucre, Fields of funds

Once staid Iowa has fallen into the manure pit of Koch-nazi influence. Wonderful, the great state is now shithole Iowa. As a native son, it is a sad fact Iowa has lost its way.