In March 2023, Daphne Huang emailed her supervisor — repeating concerns she had shared a day earlier.
She was troubled with the ethics of the Idaho Attorney General’s Office new management — months after Raúl Labrador became Idaho’s attorney general.
“I don’t think (the executive office) is concerned with our ethical responsibilities under professional rules of conduct to which we are all bound,” Huang wrote.
“They instead appear intent on dismantling government, and doing so without regard for the people who believe in public service who fall in their wake. They have drawn the (Attorney General’s) Office into adversity with its clients based on anti-government pursuits irrespective of how the law applies to the facts.”
Before firing her a couple hours later, Labrador didn’t look into her concerns, he recently said in a deposition.
“I had no concerns. It was clear that she was not acting in good faith. And it was clear that she was already preparing for litigation,” Labrador said, according to a partial transcript.
Months before Huang’s whistleblower lawsuit against the Attorney General’s Office is set to go to a jury trial, the Attorney General’s Office has asked an Idaho judge to dismiss the case, arguing Huang was fired for misconduct — not whistleblowing. Huang was fired early in Labrador’s investigation into $72 million of child care grants distributed by the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, the agency she represented as a deputy attorney general.
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