Neither Wooten nor the Barnstormers have revealed his reason for resigning.
At one point Sarah and Todd Palin hired a private investigator to gather information, seeking to have Wooten officially disciplined.
Legislators stated that Palin had the legal authority to fire Monegan,
but they wanted to know whether her action had been motivated by anger at Monegan for not firing Wooten.
Monegan said the subject of Wooten came up when he invited Palin to a birthday
party for his cousin, state senator Lyman Hoffman, in February 2007 during the legislative session in Juneau.
She placed an aide on paid leave due to a tape-recorded phone conversation that she deemed improper, in which the aide, appearing to act on her behalf,
complained to a trooper that Wooten had not been fired.
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Victor Wooten and Alain Caron.
Monegan stated that he learned an internal investigation had found all but
two of the allegations to be unsubstantiated, and Wooten had been disciplined for the others-
an illegal moose killing and the tasering of his 11-year-old stepson, who had reportedly asked to be tasered.
Monegan said that he had resisted
persistent pressure from the Governor, her husband, and her staff, including State Attorney General Talis Colberg, to fire Palin's ex-brother-in-law, state trooper Mike Wooten; Wooten was involved in a child custody battle
with Palin's sister that included an alleged death threat against Palin's father.