Adam Krupp Scandal Deepens: $210K State Job With No Duties Sparks Outrage Over Transparency and Taxpayer Spending

Adam Krupp oh, we got a big update on Adam Krupp. So let’s again, I know most of you super engaged, you’re fully aware of this, but we have new people coming in all the time, so this is for our new listeners, our new viewers. Adam Krupp was the head of DCS Department of Child Services, and that oversees, as it sounds, the well-being of children in the state of Indiana. It’s a very important agency. I think their budget is something like $1.4 billion. It’s a huge deal. And Krupp, who is a politically connected total insider guy, he was at the Department of Revenue, he worked for Pence, did all sorts of things before he ended up at DCS, he just disappeared for three months at the first of the year, from the middle of January through the middle of April, he just disappeared. The only thing he would say was well I was in the hospital, but it was never like I have this issue, I have this disease, I have this thing that’s been diagnosed, not nothing, no I’ll be back in a week, here’s what I’m going through, here’s when I anticipate a return, nothing, he just made the one post and then basically disappeared. And then all of a sudden in the middle of April, so a couple weeks ago I guess now there’s a big announcement, well Krupp’s out as head of DCS and now Krupp’s a special advisor to the governor. What does that mean, well we’re not going to tell you. What’s he do, well we’re not going to tell you. Well is there a job description, nope. Okay. Is he like just volunteering his time, oh no, no no, he’s getting paid $210,000 a year plus benefits.

New Details Raise Questions About Adam Krupp’s Disappearance and Return

And people including, well the Republicans won’t say anything, I have not seen a single Republican lawmaker in the House or the Senate express any anything frustration, demanding to know information, outrage, nothing. But the Democrats have spoken up and said well $210,000 plus benefits, you put it all together it’s probably a quarter of a million dollars plus per year, we’re paying a guy, we want to know what he does. So Kara Kenney has sort of taken the lead on this investigative reporter over at WRTV6, and she asked Braun yesterday, I think this was during like his big AI announcement, and she asked him, I’ll read the transcript here of what Braun had to say, and this is posted up at WRTV6 by the way.

Governor Braun’s Response Fuels Concerns Over Accountability and Oversight

Kara Kenney: "Governor you just talked about efficiency and accountability, why give Adam Krupp a position and how do you hold him accountable if there’s no job description? Governor Braun" It’s easy to hold you accountable, he left because he had a personal issue." Stop. Okay. First of all, we don’t know why Krupp left, and I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again, if you’re some customer service rep for the state government, you can have all the personal issues you want, I don’t need to know the details. If you’re an agency head of a place where $1.4 billion of our tax money is spent, if you’re in charge of the well-being of children in our state, I get to know why you’re gone three months, I get to know that if you don’t want me to know that, and look this again is not about Adam Krupp’s health, I want him to be a healthy person, I hope he’s had a speedy recovery, I hope whatever he was going through has been resolved, not about that, but I get to know if you’re going to lord over people, if you’re going to collect, you’re going to be in charge of $1.4 billion of our money, you don’t get to disappear for three months. There’s a higher standard for you than some than the janitor, we get to know what the issue was, and we get to know why you’ve improved, why you’re better, that you can make $210,000, this dismissive B.S. from the governor like well he’s fine now, we don’t even know what happened, I mean we kind of do right, Braun is essentially alluded to that the guy had some sort of like mental meltdown, now again they won’t be candid and tell you what’s going on, but if you put the pieces together based on the interview Braun did on Hammer and Nigel, the things he said in the press gaggles releases whatever, the guy had some sort of meltdown, sorry he went through that, maybe leading an agency isn’t for you. And you know what like if you like if you’re the coach of an NFL team okay so you’re leading the team in the NFL and you’re just like hey the team’s failing you’re not winning I couldn’t take it I’m out, do they just not tell anyone what happened, and then you just come back and they’re like well he’s gonna make the same amount of money he just gets to report to the president now, no, you’re out, like sorry it didn’t work out, coaching in the NFL not for you, it’s a high pressure position, it’s not for everyone, unfortunately the job that Krupp had lots of jobs involving politics and government they’re high pressure positions, they’re high stress, a lot of scrutiny, and when you’re going to take on that role you give up certain things that other people are afforded, what is it, with great power comes great responsibility, great accountability, we’re not getting any of that.

Taxpayer Transparency Debate Grows Over $210K Role With No Job Description

Braun goes on to say "I’ll do like I’ve done over the years you make good decisions people stick with you you’ll know what to pay them you’ll know what when it makes sense to do so." Oh so Braun’s a king now I guess, well I just decided he’s worth it, what’s he do, not going to tell you, what’s the job, not going to tell you, what are the responsibilities, not going to tell you, I know though no offense Braun your governance so far is crap, and by the way it’s not like you have an ace track record with personnel decisions, see Jennifer Ruth Green, not like you, it’s like it’s been the impeccable Mr Braun, you have a track record of appointing political hacks who are rotten, and in the case of Jennifer Ruth Green ended up under Inspector General investigation, quit and paid a massive fine to the Ethics Commission, not a great track record Braun, we don’t give you the benefit of the doubt around here. He also says quote, "If you’ve got somebody that did a good job and it has an issue personally with it I’m going to be one who gives you a second chance there’s a reservoir of experience there, Jennifer has done a great job in his absence," talking about the woman that ended up leading DCS. Well then Mr Governor the question becomes if he’s done a great job why isn’t he still leading DCS, why isn’t he still leading DCS? If he did a great job and he’s healthy enough to return to work, and by the way if he’s healthy enough to return to work why aren’t we saying what happened to him? Like if you’re saying and this would be a horrible thing hey I had this battle with cancer which I don’t think that gets solved in three months but maybe, maybe it did, and that you know if it did wonderful, but you would tell people that, hey I had this issue I’m better I’m back, or you know I had a broken leg or I had dental surgery that went awry, you know like whatever right, you would tell people what it is I’m better now I’m back. They’re not telling you what it is which means they don’t want you to know what it is, you have the right as people who are paying this guy’s salary, one to have led an agency, and by the way they haven’t answered yet whether he got paid the whole time he was gone, were we paying this guy for three months not to work, they won’t tell you if he got paid, they won’t tell you what was wrong with him, they won’t tell you how they’re guaranteeing he’s better, and they won’t tell you what he does now, can you think of any corporation like a business that has to earn money where you would allow that to happen, you would just allow an employee to disappear, they don’t work, you pay them, they come back, you give them a new job paying the same amount, and then none of the coworkers know or the shareholders know what this person does, there’s no job description, that doesn’t happen anywhere but the government. Like when I was let go at WIBC from the beginning I started doing videos before I’d even been let go, when I was sitting at home and no one was talking to me, that’s why I started doing the videos in my bedroom. I wanted you guys to know like hey I ain’t dead I’m not ill I don’t want because many of you were getting worried like is Rob sick is there something wrong. It’s part of why I was so mad about the whole thing, not that I got let go but in the manner I got let go, people get hired and fired in our business all the time, but the fact that they made you guys worried about Rob has disappeared where’s he at, well they won’t say, Rob who Rob Rob uh Rob, and I was like this is B.S. I’m not going to tolerate this. So I didn’t want people thinking did he rob a bank is he on the run from the law? Is he you know is he going to show up at a post office somewhere? And it was ridiculous. The point what I’m trying to say though is I went out of my way to say hey I’m here I’m fine there’s nothing going on here because I felt you guys deserve to know, I think that made some people mad that I let you know that I was okay, I think remember when Casey was like, "my friend my friend my friend my friend." Lady I have a freaking name, it’s Rob Kendall. I produced a number one rated radio show, that was the one that really made me mad, the my friend stuff, the tearful my friend stuff. By the way I haven’t heard from her since February 3rd so must have not been that good of a friend. Point is though I went out of my way to tell you guys where I was, I’m here in my bedroom, I have no idea what’s going on, and I told you who to contact, and thousands of you did like if you want answers, and they didn’t give you guys answers either, that is beside the point. The point is though that’s what you do when you’re in a public position where people expect you to be somewhere, and I wasn’t running anything I was just a guy that went and talked on the radio. I wasn’t in charge of anybody’s money. This guy was in charge of $1.4 billion of taxpayer money and he disappeared, and then he comes back and they give him a position, and they won’t tell you what it is.

Critics Point to Broader Pattern of Political Favoritism and Government Spending

This is where I come back to our government hates you and they have zero respect for you. Let’s just say the quiet part out loud. Adam Krupp is where he is because he’s super politically connected, he’s getting a cushy job with a massive salary, and he’s not really doing anything for the money of note. Let’s just say it Mike Braun, and these are and by the way it’s disgusting that no Republican will speak up on this, we’re told there’s no money for roads without millions of dollars of new tax increases on I-80, we were told last year there was no money in the budget to fund vital services without raising your taxes by $1 billion, we were told that government can’t function without more money, and yet this guy who abandoned the taxpayers, who apparently was so unstable that he had to leave the office, they just put him back in some cush position. Where’s your cush position? Where’s my cush position? We’re told to shut up and pay. You don’t want to know why there’s no money to fund the basics, because we’re giving $210,000 plus benefits to Adam Krupp for a job that we don’t know what he does. Diego Morales is wasting $300,000 on unused vehicle history reports. These are just the things we’re able to identify because the acts are so egregious.