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 a locally-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.
She was convicted of crimes associated with hiring her daughter and the state-contract payments, but the presiding judge tossed the conviction tied to the contract payments. She was sentenced to probation and lost her reelection bid. The Delaware Supreme Court is currently considering an appeal of her remaining convictions.
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 primary 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.
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