Scandal-ridden Reardon leaves Snohomish County exec office
May 31, 2013, 8:35 AM | Updated: Jun 3, 2013, 11:25 am
Friday is the last day on the job for Snohomish County Executive Aaron Reardon.
Reardon is stepping down after nine years in office, marred by an affair and allegations of misuse of public funds.
He’s still assuring voters that he never spent county money inappropriately. Reardon told KING 5, “I’m probably the most thoroughly vetted candidate in the United States of America.”
In 2012, the Washington State Patrol concluded an investigation of allegations that Reardon, a Democrat, used taxpayer money during an extramarital affair but found just $6 was not accounted for.
A county prosecutor declined to file charges.
In the weeks before he resigned the Everett Herald reported links among members of Reardon’s staff and what the newspaper termed “a campaign of online harassment and cloaked records requests made against Reardon’s political rivals.”
He also told KING 5 his extramarital affair was a “wrong turn” in his life, but now he and his wife are back on track.
