FILE South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem speaks during the Family Leadership Summit successful this July 16, 2021, record photograph successful Des Moines, Iowa. Ethics officials are questioning whether Noem had a struggle of involvement by gathering with her girl and apical authorities officials past twelvemonth successful the governor's bureau portion her girl was pursuing a existent property certification. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, file)

FILE South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem speaks during the Family Leadership Summit successful this July 16, 2021, record photograph successful Des Moines, Iowa. Ethics officials are questioning whether Noem had a struggle of involvement by gathering with her girl and apical authorities officials past twelvemonth successful the governor's bureau portion her girl was pursuing a existent property certification. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, file) (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – South Dakota's lawyer wide said Tuesday helium is reviewing concerns from authorities lawmakers implicit a gathering Gov. Kristi Noem held past twelvemonth that included some her girl and a authorities employee who was overseeing her daughter's exertion to go a certified existent property appraiser.

“I person been contacted by acrophobic citizens and legislators," Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg said successful a statement. "I americium actively reviewing their concerns and I volition beryllium pursuing the steps prescribed successful codified instrumentality successful narration to those questions.”

Ravnsborg didn’t instantly respond to a question astir what steps helium mightiness take. The lawyer wide is tasked nether authorities instrumentality with issuing ineligible opinions to lawmakers.

The Associated Press reported Monday that Noem held the gathering soon aft the authorities bureau had moved to contradict her girl the licence past year. Noem’s girl yet received her licence 4 months later. Afterward, the authorities worker who directed the bureau was allegedly pressured to discontinue by Noem’s furniture secretary. The authorities employee, Sherry Bren, yet received a $200,000 outgo from the authorities to retreat the ailment and permission her job.

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Ethics experts said the occurrence raised concerns that the politician had abused the powerfulness of her office.

The governor’s bureau declined to reply elaborate questions from the AP, and Noem's spokesperson dismissed the AP's study arsenic a governmental onslaught connected the governor.

Noem, 49, is seen among a fistful of aboriginal GOP hopefuls for the White House successful 2024. In conscionable her archetypal word arsenic politician aft astir a decennary successful Congress, her prima has risen arsenic she has honed a connection of much state and little authorities — peculiarly during the coronavirus pandemic, erstwhile she decried restrictions being enactment successful spot elsewhere. Though Noem has said she's focused connected re-election successful 2022, she's visited cardinal aboriginal statesmanlike states Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina and shown a willingness to jab astatine imaginable rivals.

Though Ravnsborg and Noem are some Republicans, they person go governmental enemies implicit the past twelvemonth aft the politician pressured Ravnsborg to resign pursuing a car clang successful which helium struck and killed a antheral walking connected a highway. The lawyer wide pleaded nary contention to 2 misdemeanors successful the crash. The Legislature is readying to convene successful November to see whether to proceed with impeaching Ravnsborg.

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Democrats successful the Legislature, who clasp conscionable a fistful of seats, person besides called for an probe into the governor's behaviour during her daughter's appraiser certification application.

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