It found Erika Malmen, who isn't just a former state Office of Species Conservation and U.S. Department of Interior lawyer; she's also wife of Jeff Malmen, who since the late 1990s guided Otter in his ascension from lieutenant governor to the U.S. House – and finally back to Boise as state chief executive starting in 2007.
Until November, he was Otter's chief of staff, quitting to work as a lobbyist for the Idaho Power Co. just two months before his wife was hired by Areva.