The Begich administration emails posted last night with Sean Cockerham’s most recent ADN story include a timeline which shows that (1) as early as 1984 Aetna was apparently not being told that Sullivan was not a current MOA employee: (2) two “premium” reductions (not really premiums, of course, since there was no insurance policy) were granted, once in 1992 during the Fink administration & again in 1995 during the Mystrom administration. Even assuming that the original Salaries & Emoluments Commission resolution 82-1 was a “contract”, the MOA would have been violating its terms by lowering the “premiums.”

But of course, the Commission in 1982 was acting on the belief that Sullivan could be covered under the Muni’s group policy with Aetna — it never contemplated the Sullivan’s claim being paid with public monies. It never contemplated pretending that MOA was an insurance company.

Start by asking Susan Lindemuth, who was Manager of Records & Benefits when this stuff was first set up. I’ve been told she now works in HR at the Alaska RR.

I wrote about all of this at length in this blog post and a couple of previous ones.

Chairman Flynn, I appreciate your efforts, but I’ve got to say that in my opinion, there is such a troubling appearance here of possibly public corruption spanning several administrations that I doubt we’re going to unravel this without an independent investigation. Though hopefully this preliminary step will at least help us learn some stuff. I hope that documents found through this process will be made public. Thank you.

How did Mr Sullivan’s rates go down over the years as he got older? This makes no sense.

Did Dan Sullivan pay the premuims out of his pocket the last several years becuase he knew he would get the check?