Gov. Mitch Daniels and his chief of staff were both deeply involved in Indiana’s decision to outsource the automation of welfare intake, and they should provide depositions in lawsuits over IBM’s cancelled $1.37 billion contract in the project, a lawyer for the company argues in a brief filed this week in Marion Superior Court.
The brief filed Tuesday by IBM attorney Andrew Hull notes Daniels at one point told a state employee union representative that the decision to upgrade Indiana’s welfare eligibility system would “be made by me and me alone” and that Daniels personally signed the contract with Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM.
