Sarah Palin: Government Corruption Up Close & Personal

By way of back-story, Wooten was married to Palin's sister, and the couple went through an acrimonious divorce. Prior to Palin's election as Governor, the Palin family presented a list of 14 accusations against Wooten to the Police Department (including using his patrol car to pick his kids up from school and illegally shooting a moose). The charges were investigated, and Wooten was given a 10-day suspension.

When Palin took office, she, her husband, and her staff began putting pressure on the Commissioner of the department, Walt Monegan, to fire Wooten. Dozens of communications were made to the Department by the Mayor's staff. Monegan resisted the pressure and kept Wooten on, after which Monegan was fired from his job as Police Commissioner.

When allegations were made that Monegan had been improperly terminated, Palin initially denied that she or her staff had put any pressure on Monegan. (She then changed her story once recordings surfaced showing members of her staff directly pressuring police officials to fire Wooten, at which point she claimed that the calls were unauthorized.)

Following is a link to a recording of a phone call between Frank Bailey (the Mayor's Director of Boards & Commissions) and Lieutenant Rodney Dial of the Public Safety Department.