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One of the most recent smears on Sarah Palin has been used in the form of a so-called investigation into whether or not she abused her power to try and get a trooper fired. What you need to know right at the start is that no one was first. The accusations are purely that she attempted to get someone fired. The board found that the person that was fired was not done so illegally. Here are the details that the MSM won’t tell you.

On 3/1/06, Alaska State Trooper Mike Wooten was suspended for 5 days following an investigation. Wooten was reprimanded for four instances of violating laws and department rules dating to 2001. He is back at work.

Palin’s daughter, Bristol, alledgedly witnessed Wooten use a Taser on his stepson, Palin’s nephew Payton. Wooten 3rd wife at the time was Sarah Palin’s little sister Molly.

In a May 2005 police report, Palin has alledged that Wooten made a death threat against her father “I’m gonna f****ing kill your Dad”, I’m gonna shoot him”, “he’s gonna eat a f***ing lead bullet”.

Two and one half years later, Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan was fired by Palin in July 2008 after he declined a transfer to become the director of the state alcohol control board. Palin says he didn’t do enough to fill trooper vacancies and battle alcohol abuse issues.

A Palin political rival, Andrew Halcro, the man who lost to Palin in the 2006 governor’s race, was the first to accuse Palin in a blog post titled “Why Walt Monegan got fired: Palin’s Abuse of Power”. Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan says Palin never told him to fire the trooper.

Wooten still works for the Alaska State Troopers.

Furthermore:

Trooper Mike Wooten was interviewed on CNN on 9/5/2008 where he admitted to the following activities that he had been disciplined for:

• Tasering his 10 year old stepson
• Shooting a moose illegally

He denied the following:

• Drinking in a police car
• Threatening to kill Palin’s father

He also said he had subsequently married and then divorced his 4th wife.

Lastly:

Mr. Monegan may not be a nice man either, it turns out.

Per the San Francisco Chronicle:

It turns out that well before he was jettisoned for what he says was his refusal to fire trooper Wooten at the behest of Sarah Palin, Monegan had his own share of domestic troubles - some of them spilling all the way down to the Bay Area.

In October 1994, Monegan’s estranged wife, who had moved from Alaska to the Peninsula with the couple’s two daughters after more than 10 years of marriage, sought a temporary restraining order against him - accusing Monegan of threatening to kill her, waving a gun at her and dislocating her shoulder, according to her declaration on file in Santa Clara County Superior Court.

In an interview last week, Georgene Moldovan said Monegan had threatened several times to throw her body in an Alaska river.

Monegan, 57, who has since remarried, vigorously denied Moldovan’s allegations, both in court papers filed at the time and in an interview with us last week. “I’m not a door slammer - I don’t punch walls,” he said.

Monegan admitted to dislocating Moldovan’s shoulder, but said it was an accident that had happened before they were married, while they “were wrestling and tickling.”

Moldovan was an emergency room doctor and professor at Stanford and shuttled back and forth from Alaska to the Peninsula the last seven years of their marriage. Monegan asked her for a divorce in 1993, but snapped when he learned he might lose the couple’s house, she says.

One day in April 1993, she said in her court filing, “he pulled out his gun and waved it at me outside my home and yelled he would kill me if I stopped him.”

In the interview, Moldovan said Monegan “would show up unannounced and break into my apartment and do threatening things. I was forced to get a restraining order because I was really fearful he was going to harm me.”

Monegan denounced the allegations as “either half-truths or pure fabrications.” He points out that Moldovan made her accusations in the midst of a bitter fight over who would get the couple’s daughters.

If any of the allegations had been documented, he said, he would have been fired from his Anchorage police job and never been hired by Palin as Alaska’s top cop in 2006.

As for whether any of his own troubles might have clouded his judgment in dealing with Palin’s ex-brother-in-law amid his messy divorce, Monegan says no.

“In a nutshell, I never have and I never will condone domestic violence,” he said.

The guarantee by Democratic Senator Hollis French of an October surprise partially came true.

The report issued to a legislative panel found:

No ethics rules or laws were broken when she dismissed the Public Safety Commissioner Monegan.

Palin broke an ethics rule, but no laws, for trying to get Trooper Wooten fired. [Ethics rules don't allow for asking for a man to be fired that (allegedly) threatened to kill the Governor's father.]

Credit goes to Fight the Palin Smears for the information.

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