Didn’t KMG do enough to defame herself all by her lonesome?:
Former Delaware Auditor Kathy McGuiness is suing Attorney General Kathy Jennings and other state law enforcement officials for alleged violations of her constitutional rights as well as defamation tied to the criminal case that preceded the auditor’s election loss last year.
Last year, McGuiness was convicted of three misdemeanors tied to her work as auditor in an unprecedented prosecution against a statewide-elected official. The prosecution was led by Jennings and the state’s top public corruption watchdogs and centered on allegations that McGuiness gave her child a do-little job in the office, criminally intimidated her employees and rigged payments for a state contract to avoid oversight.
The lawsuit, filed Tuesday, names as defendants Chief Investigator Frank Robinson in the Department of Justice’s Office of Civil Rights and Public Trust, the state’s only real office set up as a public corruption watchdog as well as Mark Denney, a prosecutor who until recently ran that office. Attorney General Jennings, a longtime prosecutor who has been the state’s top law enforcement official since 2019, is also named as a defendant.
The litigation accuses Jennings and Denney of defamation for how they characterized the criminal charges tied to the state contract payments in a press conference in 2021 announcing the indictment against McGuiness. The complaint claims the false statements damaged McGuiness’ political career.
Who could argue with that? Couldn’t have been her corruption in office or the subsequent convictions that ‘damaged’ her political career. I wonder who’s paying her legal fees…perhaps Speaker Pete can testify to her sterling reputation–or Ernie Lopez.