Legislators ask Attorney General to find out who leaked report on candidate for State Auditor

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Two legislators are asking Attorney General Matt Denn to look  into how the  News Journal gained  access  to  a leaked  report  regarding Kathleen Davies, a candidate for State Auditor.

State Reps. John Kowalko  and  Kim Williams, both Democrats who support Davies,  announced that they had sent a  letter  to Attorney General Matt Denn to open an investigation into the release of a  report the “Investigation into Actions of the Chief Administrative Auditor.”

This report was commissioned by State Auditor Thomas Wagner from the firm of Grant Thornton.

Wagner, a Republican,  is not running for another term for the post and had earlier dismissed Davies.

 A state panel had earlier ruled that there was not sufficient cause for the dismissal of Davies.

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Wagner’s own words stating “because this issue is still before the (Merit Employee Relations Board) I am restricted from saying anything” about the report further reinforces the reality that the report is confidential,” the legislators wrote in a letter to Denn.

 “We find it most troubling that this illicitly/illegally obtained document has been parsed and displayed on the front page of Delaware’s most widely circulated newspaper mere weeks from an election leaving little to no opportunity for any counterpoint or rebuttal,” the letter stated.

The letter  requested  that the investigation “reveal any and all sources that accessed and/or communicated this report and that any charges so merited be brought against the party/parties involved.”

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