Why is Sarah Palin under investigation?

Question

I've heard from a friend that McCain's choice for VP is under investigation but I didn't get to ask her why.

What happened? What did she do?

Answer 1

She fired a popular public servant because he refused to fire her ex brother in law. That's an illegal abuse of power.

To replace the fired official, she hired a SEXUAL HARRASSER. He had a record of it and she never did a background check on him.

Her management skills are not th ebest.

Answer 2

lol  

1. It is "alleged"

2. McCain would not have picker her if there was any truth to it.

3. If you're so concerned by the alleged "abuse" of power, then I'm sure you are livid about Pelosi not allowing a vote on drilling when the American people clearly support it.

As I'm equally sure you are livid that Obama's campaign sent a letter to a TV station in Chicago threatening their broadcast license because they are having a right wing columnists share what he found in the recently released Ayers / Obama papers.

Answer 3

She is being "investigated" by her political enemies on the thinnest and most laughable excuses because she cleaned house in her state and broke up the profiteering, corrupt political/oil cabal.  Good for her!

Answer 4

Here's the true story from an Alaskan blogger named mudflats:

Sarah Palin’s sister Molly married a guy named Mike Wooten who is an Alaska State Trooper.  Mike and Molly had a rocky marriage.  When the marriage broke up, there was a bitter custody fight that is still ongoing.  During the custody investigation, all sorts of things were brought up about Wooten including the fact that he had illegally shot a moose (yes folks this is Alaska), driven drunk, and used a taser (on the test setting, he reminds us) on his 11-year old stepson, who supposedly had asked to see what it felt like.  

While Wooten has turned out to be a less than stellar figure, the fact that Palin’s father accompanied him on the infamous moose hunt, and that many of the dozens of charges brought up by the Palin family happened long before they were ever reported smacked of desperate custody fight.  Wooten’s story is that he was basically stalked by the family.

After all this, Wooten was investigated and disciplined on two counts and allowed to kept his position with the troopers.  Enter Walt Monegan, Palin’s appointed new chief of the Department of Public Safety and head of the troopers.  Monegan was beloved by the troopers, did a bang-up job with minimal funding and suddenly got axed.  Palin was out of town and Monegan got “offered another job” (aka fired) with no explanation to Alaskans.  Pressure was put on the governor to give details, because rumors started to swirl around the fact that the highly respected Monegan was fired because he refused to fire the aforementioned Mike Wooten.  Palin vehemently denied ever talking to Monegan or pressuring Monegan in any way to fire Wooten, or that anyone on her staff did.  Over the weeks it has come out that not only was pressure applied, there were literally dozens of conversations in which pressure was applied to fire him.  Monegan has testified to this fact, spurring an ongoing investigation by the Alaska state legislature.  

But, before this investigation got underway, Palin sent the Alaska State Attorney General out to do some investigative work of his own so she could find out in advance what the real investigation was going to find.  (No, I’m not making this up).  The AG interviewed several people, unbeknownst to the actual appointed investigator or the Legislature! Palin’s investigation of herself uncovered a recorded phone call retained by the Alaska State Troopers from Frank Bailey, a Palin underling, putting pressure on a trooper about the Wooten non-firing.  Todd Palin (governor’s husband) even talked to Monegan himself in Palin’s office while she was away.  Bailey is now on paid administrative leave.

As if this weren’t enough, Monegan’s appointed replacement Chuck Kopp, turns out to have been the center of his own little scandal.  He received a letter of reprimand and was reassigned after sexual harrassment allegations by a former coworker who didn’t like all the unwanted kissing and hugging in the office.  Was he vetted?  Obviously not.  When he was questioned about all this, his comment was that no one had asked him and he thought they all knew.  Kopp, defiant, still claimed to have done nothing wrong and said to the press that there was no way he was stepping down from his new position.  Twenty four hours later, he stepped down.  Later it was uncovered that he received a $10,000 severance package for his two weeks on the job from Palin.  Monegan got nothing.

Answer 5

The DNC is desperately trying to investigate her for anything.

Answer 6

Abuse of power as Governor of Alaska. She asked to have a State trooper fired from his job for whatever reason that just happened to be going thru a divorce with her sister.  After the Troopers boss declined her request he himself was fired. Haven't read too much about it but there's a link to check it out.

Personally... thats really messed up, politics aside. That's just plain scary, jokingly yeah it could be funny... but still scary haha.

Answer 7

Allegedly she tried to get her ex-brother-in-law fired from his government job (sheriff or something like that) because of a messy divorce and custody battle between him and her sister.

Answer 8

Abuse of power.  She is being investigated for firing the Public Safety commisioner when he wouldn't fire an Alaskan state trooper.  The trooper happened to be her brother-in law who was fighting for child custody with Palin's sister.

Answer 9

She's being investigated for firing her brother in law (who was a high ranking Law Enforcement Officer) when he decieded to dump her sister.

EDIT I was a little off, "I Love America" got the details right.