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A former Alaska attorney general who represented state workers in the Troopergate investigation has been elected mayor of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough.
Alaska legislators are still sweeping up after last fall's abuse of power investigation into Gov. Sarah Palin, but they insist the fireworks are over.
The Alaska Senate on Friday found Gov. Sarah Palin's husband and nine state employees, including some of her top aides, in contempt for ignoring subpoenas to testify in the Legislature's Troopergate investigation.
A new political action committee wants the Legislature to censure Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and bring contempt charges against her husband over the so-called Troopergate investigation.
This time, Gov. Sarah Palin can claim vindication against allegations that she abused her power in office by firing her public safety commissioner.
Gov. Sarah Palin violated no ethics laws when she fired her public safety commissioner, the state personnel board concluded in a report released Monday. "There is no probable cause to believe that the governor, or any other state official, violated the Alaska Executive Ethics Act in connection with these matters," the report says.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin testified for two hours Friday in an abuse-of-power investigation that has been a distraction to her Republican vice presidential campaign. Palin's leadership was questioned this month in a stinging but largely toothless legislative report that found she violated state ethics laws by letting a family dispute influence her decision-making.
Sarah Palin unlawfully abused her power as governor by trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper, the chief investigator of an Alaska legislative panel concluded Friday. The politically charged inquiry imperiled her reputation as a reformer on John McCain's Republican ticket.
Sworn to secrecy, Alaska lawmakers have begun reviewing a lengthy and politically sensitive investigative report focusing on whether Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin abused her authority as governor.
A legislative panel agreed Thursday to share confidential personnel records with the lawyer who is leading a second abuse-of-power investigation into Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's firing of her public safety commissioner.
Sworn to secrecy, Alaska lawmakers have begun reviewing a lengthy and politically sensitive investigative report that, when released Friday, could prove embarrassing to Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin.
An Alaska judge on Thursday refused to block a state investigation into whether Gov. Sarah Palin abused her power when she fired her public safety commissioner this summer.
A state judge heard arguments Thursday over a Republican request to block a legislative investigation into whether Gov. Sarah Palin abused her power when she fired her public safety commissioner.
Less than a week after balking at the Alaska Legislature's investigation into her alleged abuse of power, Gov. Sarah Palin on Monday indicated she will cooperate with a separate probe run by people she can fire.
Alaska's investigation into whether Gov. Sarah Palin abused her power, a potentially damaging distraction for John McCain's presidential campaign, ran into intensified resistance Tuesday when the attorney general said state employees would refuse to honor subpoenas in the case.
Five Republican state lawmakers filed suit Tuesday to end the bipartisan investigation into Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's firing of the public safety commissioner even though the vice presidential candidate once said she welcomed the probe into allegations of abuse of power.
Gov. Sarah Palin is unlikely to speak with an independent counsel hired by Alaska lawmakers to review the firing of her public safety commissioner, a spokesman for Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Monday.
A campaign spokesman says Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin won't speak with an investigator hired by lawmakers to look into the firing of her public safety commissioner.
The abuse of power investigation against Sarah Palin, Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate, took a potentially ominous turn for her party on Friday when state lawmakers voted to subpoena her husband.
The Alaska Legislature is hastening its ethics investigation into Gov. Sarah Palin's firing of her public safety commissioner, making it far more likely it will be completed before November's election.
Gov. Sarah Palin, a rising young GOP star mentioned as a possible running mate for John McCain, could see her clean-hands reputation damaged by a growing furor over whether she tried to get her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper.
Two-Thirds of Cost of Palin Ethics Probes Was Spent on a Charge She Filed against HerselfIn Sarah Palin's bizarre, rambling statement on Friday announcing that she was quitting her job as governor of Alaska, she claimed that a series of investigations into ethics charges filed against her and her staff had been too costly to state taxpayers and to herself personall …
Despite FBI's Denial That It's investigating Her, Questions Remain Over Whether Alaska Governor and Her Husband Steered Lucrative Contracts to Construction Company That Built the Palins' Home While She Was Mayor of Wasilla in Exchange for Political and Business Favors
Sarah Palin's Ethics Invetigation Cost Alaska Taxpayers $296,000Ethics complaints against Gov. Sarah Palin and top members of her administration have cost the state personnel board nearly $300,000 over the past year, almost two-thirds of which appear to be from the Troopergate investigation of the governor.
It's Never Palin's Fault Has anyone else notice how every instance of controversy surrounding Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) is, without fail, always someone else's fault and never her own?
Motivated By OReilly, Palin Supporter Launches Unofficial Legal Defense Fund" supporter of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) has set up a legal defense fund to help pay off $500,000 in legal fees she has accrued, mostly due to the so-called "Troopergate" scandal.
Sarah Palin and the 3-Step Libby Legal Defense Fundexcerpt; "Facing hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees over her myriad ethics woes, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin announced she may launch a legal defense fund.
Palin buried in debt, may launch a legal fund.excerpt: The Anchorage Daily News reports that Gov.
Gov. Palin's legal debts pile up in AlaskaGov. Sarah Palin owes more than a half million dollars to an Anchorage law firm that has defended her against ethics complaints, and she may create a legal fund to pay the bill, she said Friday.
James Dobson and Texas evangelicals helped effort to stop Palin 'troopergate' probeNew state gift disclosures show it cost Liberty Legal Institute and the two law firms working with it $185,000 to represent six Alaska legislators in an unsuccessful lawsuit to halt their colleagues' "troopergate" investigation into whether Gov.
Alaska Senate finds Palin's husband, aides in contempt in 'Troopergate' The Alaska Senate voted today to find Gov. Sarah Palin's husband, Todd, and nine Palin aides in contempt for failing to show up when ordered by subpoena to testify in the Legislature's "Troopergate" investigation of the governor.
A cup of Sarah: Do as I say..not as I do | AndrewHalcro.comWill you be supporting Palin in four years? You might want to keep up with the mess she continues to create for Alaska. She has credibility at home, only American Idol status!
Cold realities await Gov. Sarah Palin in AlaskaGov. Sarah Palin, heralded by some conservatives as the future of the Republican Party, faces many challenges as she returns from the campaign trail. Discuss.
Half-Baked in Alaska: Palin's 11th Hour "Troopergate" Exoneration Was a Blatant LieIt was surely an odd bit of timing on Monday, November 3--just hours before one of the biggest presidential elections in American history--that the Alaska State Personnel Board issued a finding by its chief investigator, Timothy J.
Report clears Palin in Troopergate probeA report has cleared Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin of ethics violations in the firing of her public safety commissioner.
Palin didn't violate ethics law, 2nd probe findsAlaska's Personnel Board concluded Monday that Gov. Sarah Palin did not violate ethics law by trying to get her ex-brother-in-law fired from the state police, contradicting an earlier investigation's findings.
BREAKING: Report clears Palin in Troopergate probe* Gov. Sarah Palin Slideshow: Gov. Sarah Palin * Alaskans excited, proud of role in election Play Video Video: Alaskans excited, proud of role in election AP * Shock jocks prank Palin Play Video Video: Shock jocks prank Palin CNN
New Troopergate report clears Palin"A new report just released -- hours before the polls open on Election Day -- exonerates Gov. Sarah Palin in the Troopergate controversy.
Alaska report clears Palin 0f ethics violationsA new report released on the eve of the election has cleared Gov. Sarah Palin in the Troopergate controversy.
HEY PALIN: Time to say you're sorry!Alaskans will stick up for Alaskans despite party. When it's ten below and snowing sideways, you don't check bumper stickers to see if you'll help someone by the road. Walt Monegan and many other Alaskans have been thrown under McCain's Straight Talk Express Bus.
Alaska's 2008 Runaway Train.: Wally Hickel and Mark Chryson, "Domestic Terrorists" or Just Bit Players in the Worst Alaska Movie Ever Made?For fans of movies made in Alaska, Governor Sarah Palin has hopped aboard the 2008 remake of 1985's Runaway Train (and she got a band new wardrobe like they wear on TV!).
OK this is how this works. This is where you can refute whatever claims have been made against your candidate of choice.
[video] Palins to give depositions in Troopergate inquiry[video] Todd and Sarah Palin both state they will give depositions in the formal inquiry known as Troopergate -- the allegation that Governor Palin improperly fired Walter Monegan, the state public safety director.
The Lies And Lies And Lies Of Sarah Palin - The Daily Dish | By Andrew SullivanThese are all documented, bald-faced factually irrefutable lies. More to the point: she refuses to cop to them or be held accountable for them or take questions about them.
Lawyer With Palin Pre-deposition From NBC's Savannah Guthrie Palin will be deposed tomorrow by the independent investigator working for the Alaska personnel board. The interview will be under oath. Todd Palin will be deposed separately tomorrow.
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