First it was the loon toons state of Vermont to fire Jonathan Gruber. Now, it’s North Carolina.
“Gruber’s comment that it was all right to mislead people to get to a desired outcome that he favored led our auditors to determine he had at least the appearance of an independence impairment,” Bill Holmes, a spokesman for the auditor’s office, told WRAL.
Gruber had been hired to study the use of a managed care program in North Carolina, spending about five months analyzing data from the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Gruber was also fired earlier this week by Vermont. Officials there said they would not pay him the full $450,000 contract, though they expected him to finish the work. Gruber has also received nearly $480,000 as an adviser in Michigan, where legislators pledged to investigate his work there.