A memorandum drafted by the state ethics commission’s top executive, which details alleged interference by the office of Gov. Nathan Deal into the commission’s investigation of him, has stoked a legal fire that now is radiating heat onto the attorney general’s office.
Attorney General Sam Olens has denied that his office instructed Holly LaBerge, executive secretary of the Georgia Government Transparency and Campaign Finance Commission, to conceal her memo during pending lawsuits brought by former ethics commission employees who claimed they were fired for investigating the governor. He’s also found himself in the position of justifying his office’s decision not to release the memo to plaintiffs in the earlier suits, deeming it unresponsive to their discovery requests.
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