The state's auditor found that the Republican governor not only misspent the federal money but tried to conceal it.
An auditor has repeated his recommendation that Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, seen in January, return nearly $450,000 in federal coronavirus relief funds that were used to pay staffers.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.
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. The governor’s staff salaries had already been considered in creating her budget prior to the pandemic, making them ineligible for payment out of the federal pandemic relief money, he said. Reynolds paid salaries for 21 staff members — including her spokesman, a lawyer and her chief of staff — from March 15 to June 30, 2020, out of federal funds.
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