Idaho taxpayers to cover $2.7 million from lawsuit
The former employee, Rich Wright, had been fired in January 2013 the day after newly elected commissioners Dave Case and Jim Tibbs were sworn in.
Wright had filed a lawsuit the next month claiming he had been fired in part for ordering an investigation into allegations that a manager with the commissioner's office had been harassing employees.
He had said commissioners retaliated because the employee, who resigned, was a friend of former commissioner Vern Bisterfeldt's and took part in Case's and Tibbs' campaigns.
Case and TIbbs deny Wright's claims. AP
