{"id":699872,"date":"2026-04-02T15:22:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T15:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/699872\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T15:22:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T15:22:21","slug":"ipers-ceo-greg-samorajski-placed-on-leave-amid-misconduct-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/699872\/","title":{"rendered":"IPERS CEO Greg Samorajski placed on leave amid misconduct probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe CEO of Iowa&#8217;s largest public retirement plan, Greg Samorajski, is on paid leave due to allegations of misconduct, according to the governor&#8217;s office.The office said the investigation does not pose any risk to the Iowa Public Employees&#8217; Retirement System Trust Fund and will not impact payments to members. The IPERS Trust Fund is valued at more than $45 billion. Over 400,000 Iowans are part of the program.Samorajski was appointed by Gov. Kim Reynolds as CEO in 2020. He will continue to receive pay while on leave. IPERS General Counsel Elizabeth Hennessey will serve as acting CEO.State records show Samorajski is paid $261,000.\u00bb Subscribe to KCCI&#8217;s YouTube page\u00bb Download the free KCCI app to get updates on the go: Apple | Google Play\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<strong class=\"dateline\">DES MOINES, Iowa \u2014<\/strong> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The CEO of Iowa&#8217;s largest public retirement plan, Greg Samorajski, is on paid leave due to allegations of misconduct, according to the governor&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>The office said the investigation does not pose any risk to the Iowa Public Employees&#8217; Retirement System Trust Fund and will not impact payments to members. <\/p>\n<p>The IPERS Trust Fund is valued at more than $45 billion. Over 400,000 Iowans are part of the program.<\/p>\n<p>Samorajski was appointed by Gov. Kim Reynolds as CEO in 2020. He will continue to receive pay while on leave. <\/p>\n<p>IPERS General Counsel Elizabeth Hennessey will serve as acting CEO.<\/p>\n<p>State records show Samorajski is paid $261,000.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00bb <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@KCCI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to KCCI&#8217;s YouTube page<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00bb Download the free KCCI app to get updates on the go: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=109350X1567025&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapps.apple.com%2Fus%2Fapp%2Fkcci-8-news-des-moines%2Fid505215818&amp;sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kcci.com%2Farticle%2Fiowa-ipers-ceo-greg-samorajski-leave-misconduct-investigation%2F70911403&amp;xcust=undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.hearst.android.kcci&amp;hl=en_US&amp;gl=US\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google Play<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The CEO of Iowa&#8217;s largest public retirement plan, Greg Samorajski, is on paid leave due to allegations of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":699873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[15],"tags":[239,64,14336,51534,292460,130262,292461,5022,7776,292467,202148,202144,292465,41145,28963,292466,1535,292462,292463,1812,5678,255,60506,292464,5528,292468,67,132,68,93239],"class_list":["post-699872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-apple","tag-business","tag-ceo","tag-download","tag-elizabeth-henneesy","tag-free-kcci-app","tag-greg-samorajski","tag-investigation","tag-iowa","tag-iowa-public-employees","tag-iowa-public-employees-retirement-system","tag-ipers","tag-ipers-ceo-greg-samorajski","tag-kcci","tag-kim-reynolds","tag-large-public-retirement-plan","tag-leave","tag-misconduct-investigation","tag-misconduct-probe","tag-office","tag-pension","tag-personal-finance","tag-retirement-fund","tag-samorajski","tag-state-government","tag-state-record","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-youtube-page"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}