By Amy Clancy
KIRO TV
SEATTLE — A state lawmaker tells KIRO 7 that a highly paid, highly placed employee with the Department of Corrections is breaking state law while on the job.
KIRO 7 Investigators have found that a state investigation has been launched into allegations that hundreds of hours have been spent on private businesses run by state Department of Corrections Director Belinda Stewart.
Stewart makes $102,000 a year as a director for the DOC.
But according to documents obtained by KIRO 7, she spent hundreds of hours raising money, planning events and fundraisers for her non-profit private businesses — there are at least seven of them — while she was on the clock.
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