Posted on 11/05/2021 8:51:23 PM PDT by markomalley
Democrats and Gov. Ralph Northam resisted GOP calls this year to investigate misconduct at the Virginia Parole Board after people were released from prison without proper notification to crime victims and prosecutors.
Republican Attorney General-elect Jason Miyares says he’s going to get to the bottom of the problems so they don’t happen again.
“Citizens get frustrated when they feel like there’s no accountability or transparency in government,” Miyares said Thursday after taking questions from reporters at a news conference in Richmond. “I’m going to have an internal working group in the AG’s office after I get sworn in to really just do a deep dive on what happened.”
A recap of the parole board scandal:
Under a former board chairwoman, Adrianne Bennett, the board in early 2020 quickly released more people than typical from prison shortly before Bennett was to become a juvenile court judge in Virginia Beach. Complaints followed to a state fraud, waste and abuse hotline, and the Office of the State Inspector General began to investigate.
The inspector general’s investigations were administrative and not criminal, and the agency found the board violated law and policy in the process by which some people were released. Senior aides to Northam in August 2020 questioned the power of OSIG to investigate, and after a meeting in which they admonished OSIG staffers, the inspector general, Michael Westfall, said he feared for his job. Westfall told the governor’s staff during the meeting that his office wouldn’t look into any more complaints.
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I like this guy already.
This wonderful man was my delegate.
He is smart, sincere, and thoroughly Law and Order.
I don’t make contributions as a rule, but I contributed to him.
If you call his office, an equally wonderful woman answers the phone, and treats you like a friend. I have never experienced anything like that.
He and his staff are the shiniest of the three winners as far as I am concerned.
Parole boards like the judges should be held responsible for their actions
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