Kentucky pension board chair threatened with arrest in spat with governor
Source: Reuters
Kentucky pension board chair threatened with arrest in spat with governor
May 19, 2016
(Reuters) - A fight between Kentucky's governor and the state's main public pension system escalated on Thursday when its chairman, who had defied an executive order dismissing him from the post, was threatened with arrest if he tried to chair a board meeting.
Thomas Elliot, an appointee of the former governor, was dismissed by Governor Matt Bevin in April. But the board of the Kentucky Retirement System, the least-funded in the nation, had argued that the governor did not have the right to remove him.
Elliot told Reuters in a telephone interview that he was ushered into a room by two of the governor's close aides and told he would be arrested by waiting state police officers if he tried to chair the meeting.
"They were there to tell me how and what I was going to do and that if I didn't choose to comply with what the desire of the governor's office was, I was going to be arrested," Elliot said.
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