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| High-Level Corrections Department Employee Accused Of Breaking State Law |
| By kirotv.com - Amy Clancy |
| Published: 06/27/2011 |
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SEATTLE -- A state lawmaker tells KIRO 7 that a highly paid, highly placed employee with the Department of Corrections is breaking state law while on the job. KIRO 7 Investigators have found that a state investigation has been launched into allegations that hundreds of hours have been spent on private businesses run by state Department of Corrections Director Belinda Stewart. Stewart makes $102,000 a year as a director for the DOC. But according to documents obtained by KIRO 7, she spent hundreds of hours raising money, planning events and fundraisers for her non-profit private businesses -- there are at least seven of them -- while she was on the clock. View The Documents She's also accused of often using her DOC employees, offices, vehicles, computers and other state resources to help. Stewart is the Communications and Outreach Director at the DOC. According to the ethics complaint recently uncovered by KIRO 7, Stewart is currently under investigation for spending at least 593 hours of taxpayer time, working not for the taxpayers, but instead on as many as seven of her personal non-profit businesses. "These are pretty substantial charges, and the documentation to back up the charges is rather extensive," Sen. Mike Carrell, R-Lakewood, said. "I mean, this is not a single occasion, this is multiple occasions over multiple it appears non-profit corporations." Carrell is the legislator who filed the complaint. He asked the state's executive ethics board to look into what Stewart is doing with her time, and her employees, while at DOC headquarters in Tumwater. Read More. |
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