Iowa lawmaker sued by daughter for allegedly forging her signature, withholding insurance money

by: Dan Hendrickson

Posted: Aug 3, 2023 / 03:05 PM CDT

Updated: Aug 4, 2023 / 08:49 AM CDT

UPDATE: Senator Adrian Dickey released a statement on Friday about the lawsuit. You can read it below:

“I am highly disappointed that not a single media outlet in the state, has reached out to me and asked for a quote before they published this article. That is journalistic laziness. This lawsuit does not affect a affect single constituent that I represent. Including my daughter, or my ex-wife, who live outside of SD44.

I am NOT guilty of a thing. I am a loving father, who 3 years ago bought a safe and dependable vehicle for my daughter to drive while she was going to college in California.

Documents will show that conversations took place between Korynn and I where she consented to me placing myself as a lien holder and that I would have to do the paperwork because she was going to school in California. Documents will also show that she clearly understood a reason I was going to make myself a lien holder was to prevent her from selling the car for quick cash or trading it in on a vehicle that she could not afford. After all, I paid for the entire car, no one else has ever paid a dime for it. Not one cent.

The car was involved in an accident and was totaled. Unfortunately the plaintiffs choose to go spend $40,000 that they didn’t have to buy a new car they couldn’t afford, before they bothered to reach out to the person who had the title and was the lien holder of the vehicle.

I always have, and I always will love my daughter, no matter how many harmful or hurtful things she said or does. At some point this young lady has to realize that there are consequences in life with decisions that are made and with words that are said. That is something that I have tried to instill in her entire life, however, as you have seen with the other plaintiffs that were in this lawsuit, I’ve been doing this on my own for 20 years, and it is very difficult.“

IOWA — A Republican lawmaker from southeast Iowa who was arrested last month while riding RAGBRAI is being sued by his daughter and her parents for allegedly forging her signature to place an unauthorized lien on her car. The lawsuit, naming both State Senator Adrian Dickey and Jefferson County Treasurer Mark Myers was filed last month.

The palintiffs in the case are Korynn Dickey – Adrian Dickey’s biological daughter – and her mother and adoptive father, Shawna and Allen Husted. According to the lawsuit, Adrian Dickey gifted a vehicle to his daughter in July 2020 with “no strings attached.” However, Korynn Dickey says that her father placed a lien on her vehicle – signing her name on documents without her consent. Those documents were accepted and filed by the Treasurer’s Office in Jefferson County.

Then on May 15th of this year, Korynn Dickey’s vehicle was totaled in an accident. When she submitted a claim to her insurance company after the accident, she learned of the lien. She says the proceeds from her insurance policy were paid to Adrian Dickey and he has refused to release them to cover the cost of buying a new vehicle.

In a response to the lawsuit, Dickey denies that his daughter was unaware of the lien as well as the fact Allen Husted is his daughter’s adoptive father. He asks the court to dismiss the lawsuit and require his daughter and the Husteds to pay court costs. He also requests that they sign over an insurance check to him.

In its response, the Jefferson County Treasurer’s Office argues that it is not legally required to investigate if a signature is valid. The Treasurer’s Office says it could not have known that the signature in question was forged.

A hearing in the lawsuit is scheduled for August 28th.

Dickey is also facing charges for allegedly refusing to obey an officer’s command that he move on from an intersection in Carnarvon, Iowa on July 24th. Dickey has denied wrong-doing in that incident as well.

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