State's lt. gov. target of probe
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor apologized Wednesday in the face of an investigation by the inspector general’s office, but provided scant details about what he feels he did wrong.
Democratic Lt. Gov. Mike Stack said he has said “things in anger or stress or frustration” that he wishes he hadn’t said.
Stack summoned reporters to his Capitol offices to address reports of an investigation into how he and his wife have treated the troopers and state workers who guard and serve them. He said the inspector general’s office notified him by letter of the probe a few days ago.
He said its focus is on how he interacts with troopers detailed to protect him and the people who work in the lieutenant governor’s official residence.
Stack and his wife, Tonya, live in a state-owned house at Fort Indiantown Gap.
He addressed reports that he or his wife may have pressured state troopers to use their sirens when transporting them and acknowledged he supported a failed proposal to change state law to specifically allow troopers to use flashing lights and sirens when transporting dignitaries such as the lieutenant governor.
