House Democratic Leader Brian Meyer says the House Oversight Committee should meet soon to find out why the CEO of the state-run pension system resigned and a top deputy was fired on May 1.
“We need to investigate it and if we can do it sooner rather than later and get to the bottom of it, that’d be ideal,” Meyer said during an appearance this weekend on “Iowa Press” on Iowa PBS.
The Iowa Public Employees Retirement System, called IPERS, manages pensions for over 400-thousand Iowans. In April, state officials announced the fund’s top managers were placed being investigated for alleged misconduct and had been placed on administrative leave, but they have not disclosed why the chief benefits officer was fired and the CEO resigned this month…