Reply #32: Vermont State Police didn't begin an investigation until 2000 [View All]

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"It wasn't until three years after Dean filed his affidavit, in August 2000, that state police opened an investigation into the domestic abuse allegations.

"...In September 2000, Madore was removed from the governor's detail because of the investigation. He was later fired in December 2000 because "he had engaged in acts of domestic violence during the course of his marriage and had possibly committed perjury during his divorce proceedings," according to the current Vermont attorney general, William Sorrell...."

Looks like Dean removed him from his detail within a month of the investigation beginning. That's a reasonable period of time to react. If the police aren't involved in a case, how is an employer supposed to be involved?

As a matter of fact...

"Madore is appealing his dismissal, which he says was political. "I was treated worse because of my association with Howard Dean," Madore told ABCNEWS. "If I was a lieutenant in a barracks in Middlesex, I wouldn't be here today.""

So Dean may have removed the guy BEFORE it was legal to remove him. Dean, in fact, may have ACTED IMPROPERLY by removing the guy as quickly as he did.