Department of Corrections executive director used state vehicle for hunting trip
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Rick Raemisch, the executive director for the Colorado Department of Corrections, has been verbally reprimanded for using a state vehicle to go elk hunting in October.
A five-page letter was written by the inspector general for the Department of Corrections that investigated Raemisch’s conduct.
The letter is heavily redacted. The first two paragraphs in the “finding of fact” are blacked out.
But the letter references use of a state vehicle during a hunting trip.
“(Raemisch) later placed a dead antelope in the back of the vehicle, leaving carnage and blood in the back of the vehicle which many members of his protection team complained about,” according to the letter.
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