DES MOINES, IA (AP) — Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds is cleared from a lawsuit.
A state court judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a former state agency director who claimed Reynolds fired him after he objected to her diverting federal Medicaid money to pay a member of her staff.
Iowa Department of Human Services Director Jerry Foxhoven filed the lawsuit against Reynolds in June 2021, two years after she fired him.
In his lawsuit, Foxhoven contended he was fired because he refused to engage in illegal Medicaid fraud.
Reynolds denied any wrongdoing.
