Workers allege Wyoming treasurer made threats; Meier denies allegations

Wyoming Treasurer Curt Meier (R) threatened employees in the state’s Human Resources Division last month, workers there told a Wyoming Highway Patrol trooper, an allegation Meier denied in a preemptive statement released Tuesday.

The highway patrol investigated the March 21 incident and closed the inquiry last week after concluding no criminal violations had occurred, the report states.

According to the highway patrol report, Meier allegedly threatened violence against members of the Human Resources Division due to issues related to employee retention, becoming “increasingly agitated” by his employees leaving for better-compensated positions in both the governor’s and auditor’s offices, the document states.

“Believing he was being treated unfairly by the human resources department, he stated he had already verbally beat up the department, but now he was going to have to do it physically,” the report states.

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