Controller hires stimulus officer involved in Gibbons lawsuit
Controller hires stimulus officer involved in Gibbons lawsuit Appeal Capitol Bureau Controller Kim Wallin has hired Mary Heating as her American Recovery and Reinvestment Act reporting and accountability officer.Her prime function in that post is to ensure the state accurately reports how its $2.2 billion in stimulus money is used.Keating is the former chief fiscal officer for the Department of Administration who is suing Gov. Jim Gibbons over her removal from that position. One of her tasks in that position was to monitor the governor's office's expenses.Her lawyer Cal Dunlap, who is also representing the governor's wife Dawn in what has become a bitter divorce battle, says Keating was forced out of that position because Gibbons believed she leaked information to the press about his using his state cell phone to send more than 860 personal text messages to a woman he was seeing.The lawsuit charges Keating's career and reputation were damaged by her removal and that firing chills the rights of state workers to bring matters of &