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.
10 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?
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