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The Indiana Governor disputes the allegation: https://www.indystar.com/story/news/investigations/2019/11/25/indiana-gov-eric-holcomb-disputes-interference-alleg

The Indiana Governor disputes the allegation: https://www.indystar.com/story/news/investigations/2019/11/25/indiana-gov-eric-holcomb-disputes-interference-allegations-amazon-death-investigation/4302895002/ https://www.indystar.com/story/news/investigations/2019/11/2.... I find it interesting the whistle blower claims the governor attended a meeting where pressure was applied to back off the investigation. The Governor claims he never attended a meeting. Wouldn't this be an easy item to fact check by getting records of meeting attendees?

qsymmachus 7y ago
You could think of this as a simple "he said she said", but what possible benefit does the whistleblower stand to gain from making this story up? Whereas the governor has a very obvious incentive to deny the whole thing happened.
- jdsully 7y ago
  The whistle-blower may prefer another candidate for governor. Both entities can be politically motivated.
zentiggr 7y ago
Should be almost irrelevant if the mentioned recording with the director is still around. Just play that on the evening news every day until Amazon pays full death benefits and punitive fines to the Terry family. Oh yeah, and arraign the director on criminal conspiracy charges. And the governor too.
- jessaustin 7y ago
  They played an excerpt on the "Reveal" podcast the other day, so it's probably still around...
  - zentiggr 7y ago
    I heard this morning one of the Reveal team staff interviewing on NPR. Hope this stays in the news.
vanusa 7y ago
The Indiana Governor disputes the allegation. What he disputed (according to the article) was his personal involvement in the case, and his attendance at a particular meeting. He did not dispute allegations of interference by state agencies, per se.
throwaway_se099 7y ago
> The Governor claims he never attended a meeting. Wouldn't this be an easy item to fact check by getting records of meeting attendees? That meeting was probably never on the official schedule. There are numerous ways to arrange such things off the books. The Gov's office can certainly provide the schedule which will give him plausible deniability, after which it's he said she said, unless another witness comes forward. (If the above strikes you as too underhanded and sleazy, well, the whole affair is such. The lure of Amazon HQ2 was in play, remember.)

qsymmachus 7y ago

You could think of this as a simple "he said she said", but what possible benefit does the whistleblower stand to gain from making this story up? Whereas the governor has a very obvious incentive to deny the whole thing happened.

jdsully 7y ago
The whistle-blower may prefer another candidate for governor. Both entities can be politically motivated.

zentiggr 7y ago

Should be almost irrelevant if the mentioned recording with the director is still around. Just play that on the evening news every day until Amazon pays full death benefits and punitive fines to the Terry family. Oh yeah, and arraign the director on criminal conspiracy charges. And the governor too.

jessaustin 7y ago
They played an excerpt on the "Reveal" podcast the other day, so it's probably still around...
- zentiggr 7y ago
  I heard this morning one of the Reveal team staff interviewing on NPR. Hope this stays in the news.

vanusa 7y ago

The Indiana Governor disputes the allegation. What he disputed (according to the article) was his personal involvement in the case, and his attendance at a particular meeting. He did not dispute allegations of interference by state agencies, per se.

throwaway_se099 7y ago

> The Governor claims he never attended a meeting. Wouldn't this be an easy item to fact check by getting records of meeting attendees? That meeting was probably never on the official schedule. There are numerous ways to arrange such things off the books. The Gov's office can certainly provide the schedule which will give him plausible deniability, after which it's he said she said, unless another witness comes forward. (If the above strikes you as too underhanded and sleazy, well, the whole affair is such. The lure of Amazon HQ2 was in play, remember.)