During his eight years as governor, Scott appointed some people to the FLVS board of trustees with ties to Kruppenbacher, who was the school’s general counsel. An audit found Kruppenbacher influenced who won some school business and circumvented procedures for giving out lucrative contracts — handing one such payment to his soon-to-be son-in-law. Employees at the school complained of a “culture of intimidation” and feared they could lose their jobs if they crossed Kruppenbacher, according to hundreds of pages of school documents related to an investigation into his behavior and interviews with 10 current or former employees, most of whom asked not to be named because they feared repercussions in the community.