Todd Halbur is the Republican nominee running for state auditor
A Polk County jury has awarded the Republican candidate running to serve as Iowa’s taxpayer watchdog $1 million in his wrongful termination case against the state's exclusive liquor wholesaler.
Todd Halbur filed a whistleblower lawsuit in December 2019 against the state of Iowa, the Iowa Alcoholic Beverages Division and its administrator, Stephen Larson. On Friday, a jury awarded Halbur $487,500 in back pay and $512,500 for emotional distress following a five-day trial.
Iowa is one of 18 states that directly controls the sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages, with the division assuming control over the wholesaling of all liquor and wine in the state. The division also regulates and licenses establishments that sell alcoholic beverages in Iowa.
Halbur started working for the state agency in 2015 as a controller/accountant responsible for planning, directing and overseeing the Alcoholic Beverages Division’s estimated $300 million operations, including advising the agency’s administrator and chief operating officers on cash management, inventory control, audit findings and adjustments. He said he was demoted and then fired in 2018 after raising questions about excessive price markups and payments made under a no-bid contract.
Larson, in court filings, denied any actions were unlawful, that pricing changes and other information Halbur disclosed “was already widely known throughout ABD” prior to the alleged...
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