Secret Settlements

Gov. Terry Branstad announced Tuesday that he terminated the Department of Administrative Services Director Mike Carroll. Janet Phipp was named as the interim director of DAS. According to a statement from the Governor, new facts that have surfaced in the past few days led to him discovering Carroll had lied both to him and the Oversight Committee concerning the employee settlements controversy. Branstad says Carroll told him employees were not paid an additional amount in exchange for confidentiality provisions.