756 phone calls. 158 hours. Breach of a suppression order. Such describes the communications between disgraced paralegal Darra Woolman and Mississippi Today's star reporter, Anna Wolfe. The phone logs arose in the latest showdown between former Governor Phil Bryant and the digital newspaper in Madison County Circuit Court last week.
Wolfe stunned Mississippi when she published the text messages of Bryant, Brett Favre, and Jake VanLandingham and published them in 2022. The revelations were the foundations for Mississippi Today's The Back Channel series.
You were employed by Coxwell & Associates, PLLC, when its attorneys represented former Mississippi Department of Human Services (“MDHS”) Executive Director John Davis. The plaintiffs understand that you leaked confidential file materials to Mississippi Today and Anna Wolfe while you were employed with Coxwell & Associates, PLLC, and that your leak of these confidential file materials resulted in Coxwell & Associates, PLLC, terminating your employment. This subpoena relates to your production of these confidential file materials to Mississippi Today and Wolfe.
Since Coxwell fired Woolman and reported the incident to the Mississippi Bar, Bryant probably wants to determine if Woolman violated attorney-client privilege to give the intrepid reporter the scoop. A phone log summary reveals how much Woolman communicated with the reporter.
Bryant also subpoenaed Carol Burnett for deposition and her communications with Sports Illustrated and its reporters. Burnett filed a motion to quash the subpoena. A hearing will be held on September 10.




37 comments:
None of this makes Phil look any better. Not sure what he’s trying to accomplish other than a pay day he doesn’t deserve.
this paralegal must be a real head case.
One thing he's doing: Proving how expensive it can be for a whistleblower!
Hmm. I wonder if Bryant will subpoena Kingfish for the email addresses of posters who criticize him in this blog space?
RMQ
The confident mizz wolfe isn't so confident any more. Hate that she isn't sleeping soundly these days. The clock is ticking .......
I'm no Phil fan, but if Anna broke the law...I support anyone that fights her.
Fair is fair.
None of this court wrangling is making PB look innocent.
This must be a very expensive effort. There is no way Phil can ever distance himself from the TANF disaster, as he appears to be the puppet master. It would be great if both parties could have a massive financial loss on this squabble.
Good ole investigative reporting. If MT didn't break into something or direct something to be broken into seems like fair game.
Freedom of the press is under attack by the far right using weaponized prosecutions and coopted courts. Likely when the far left gets control it will be the reverse.
"Mississippi Supreme Court reinstated the lawsuit in April...."
Anybody have any idea why they would do this? Or is the MS Supreme Court just another example of how connected and corrupted the state actually is?
All politicians do this type of thing. PB was just too stupid not to get caught.
Yes, 12:48. It is because the lower court's decision to dismiss was arbitrary, sudden, and without any logic or explanation. The lack of any findings, reasoning, or really explanation of any kinds makes that lower court decision look, well, hard to explain by legal and rational means.
What is Phil's funding source for all this litigation? That would be of a lot interest to me.
Glad to know MT is forking out big time bucks for its attorney fees-
Several things can be true at the same time. Phil is still a POS for his involvement in the TANF scandal. Also, the Darr and Wolfe are POS's as well for leaking and publishing atty client privileged information. I hope he bleeds each of them dry, gets into Coxwell's E&O policy, but I also hope he goes to prison for his actions. Can we just arrest them all and put them in the same prison pod and see how it plays out.
You could start with reading the opinion in that case.
So lemme get this straight: PB is doing everything he can to embarrass those who exposed him. Doesn't change the fact that MY exposed him and his fat cat corrupt cronies. In fact, he's keeping it in the news. This isn't about those on the left or right. This is about those in power and how they abuse that power. None of us want the press to stop investigating those in power. Things like leaks and off the record information can be key to exposing corruption. That's corruption by Dems or the GOP. Why are so many folks here against these kind of investigations? Just because they are Republicans? What if it was the Dems in charge stealing from the poor? And the Magnolia Tribune took them down. I think we all know how the majority of the reactions here would go. Trust me, you do not want to live in a country where the press is stopped from afflicting the powerful. No matter how hard Trump and PB want that to happen.
@ 124, Sean Tindall is one of many clients held by BSS Global.
The strategy here is to show who was willing to do what (and why) to make Phil look bad (worse) than themselves.
KF will let us know more next week. Stay patient.
Bill Minor loved to afflict the powerful, and would smile when I did it. I miss him.
Although Feel has one helluva hairdresser, he ain't never been accused of being real damned smart.
Of course he was the puppet-master in this entire ring of thieves (and innocent participants). You can't be real smart while claiming innocence and concurrently doing your damnedest to prove your involvement.
Even Carlos The Clown would advise Phil to drop this thing. He is going to permanently embarrass and implicate himself. Carlos was overhead saying, "If y'all think I'm a dumbass, just wait til they get Phil on the stand".
It matters not who looks worse than Bryant, or not. It's about whether he is guilty, or not.
Bryant being too stupid to know he was guilty (or pretending to not be) is not going to absolve guilt, if it exists.
When someone waxes nostalgic about the good ole days of Bill Minor, they've truly jumped the shark. A pox on Minor's house. He was net bad for Mississippi and for the media in general.
Just out of interest, KF, have you ever been leaked privileged documents? What is the proper way to handle situations like these?
@12:04 I'm no Anna Wolfe or Adam what's his name fan, but if Phil is guilty, he needs to pay for the crime with time.
Privileged as in things that violate attorney client privileges? N0
Punish the monkey and let the organ grinder go!
The reliable sock puppetry on this one.
Which documents are subject to the attorney-client privilege? And who was the client?
That's horseshit. Feel was a Public Figure and has very little protection against Freedom of Speech/Press First Amendment rights granted by GOD. The judge dismissed it out of hand - but yes, could have said the reason.
Disgraced paralegal leaked REAL text messages. Enough said. Who does this state defend? Phil Bryant, Brett Favre and the DiBiase boys. Who loses and no one cares? The poor people of Mississippi. They were used as an excuse to get the federal funds (TANF) but instead the funds were used to enhance these Mississippi men who think they are better than the rest of the state. Welcome to white boy Mississippi politics. Tomorrow we can dig into lumumba and his handlers. Same kinda stuff just different race.
Which Bill Minor? The crusading reporter from the 60s and 70s or the bitter old man of the 90s and 2000s?
I hate Phil Bryant more after reading this.
70s and The Capital Reporter
"Bryant also subpoenaed Carol Burnett"-Tim Conway knows more about this and would be funnier
The money would have never been lost if it had never been reported.
Damn the free press? Not damn the corruption of course.
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