Former head Peter Lacy loses Virginia job offer

Former BMV Commissioner Peter Lacy was in line to guide Virginia’s Division of Motor Automobiles, however that plan shortly unraveled Tuesday morning after IndyStar printed a report detailing a historical past of allegedly inappropriate conduct throughout Lacy’s time in Indiana. 

A spokesman for Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin stated in an emailed assertion to IndyStar that Lacy and Virginia Transportation Secretary W. Sheppard Miller III spoke Tuesday morning. 

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“Mr. Lacy rescinded his acceptance and the Secretary concurred with that call,” Youngkin spokesperson Macaulay Porter stated. “He knowledgeable Mr. Lacy the Commonwealth rescinded the supply of employment.”

Porter declined to remark additional. 

The rescinded employment supply adopted an IndyStar investigation into the circumstances of Lacy’s abrupt resignation final month from the Indiana BMV.

IndyStar discovered the resignation got here sooner or later after Lacy appeared intoxicated throughout an government assembly with about 30 high BMV officers. Contributors within the assembly stated Lacy slurred his phrases, appeared confused and made an off-color comment about Viagra to a feminine staffer.

Half a dozen individuals who labored below Lacy on the BMV’s central workplace stated it was a part of a sample of inappropriate conduct that included crude sexual remarks to ladies and indignant outbursts wherein he would berate workers and throw issues. 

Virginia officers had not publicly introduced Lacy’s hiring, however information leaked out Monday night time on Republican political analyst Abdul-Hakim Shabazz’s IndyPolitics web site. The place got here with a wage of $185,000 and Lacy was set to begin June 1, Shabazz reported.

Virginia officers declined to substantiate that data.

Name IndyStar reporter Kaitlin Lange at 317-432-9270 or e-mail her at kaitlin.lange@indystar.com. Comply with her on Twitter: @kaitlin_lange. 

Contact IndyStar reporter Tony Prepare dinner at 317-444-6081 or tony.cook dinner@indystar.com. Comply with him on Twitter: @IndyStarTony.