Representative Mesha Mainor, a Democrat from Atlanta, has sued several prominent Fulton County figures, including the district attorney in charge of bringing charges against the former president Donald Trump. In the case, it is claimed that these authorities planned to help a former campaign worker who was harassing the state lawmaker.
Mainor has filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court of Fulton County. The county, the county ethics board, District Attorney Fani Willis, and County Commissioner Marvin Arrington are also named as defendants in the complaint. Arrington and Willis have been featured by Mainor in both their personal and professional roles.
One of the laws Willis used in her indictment of Trump, the state’s Racketeer Influence and Corrupt Organization statute, was partially used by Mainor when she filed the allegations. The state lawmaker, who made headlines last year when she joined the Republican Party, is suing for a variety of penalties, including attorneys’ costs and punitive damages.
A lawsuit obtained by Fox 5 Atlanta states that Mainor was stalked by a campaign worker she recruited in January 2019 who was fired the following month. A Fulton County grand jury indicted the campaign worker on counts of aggravated stalking and disobeying a temporary protection order that Mainor had secured in August 2019. Subsequently, an additional accusation of severe assault was included.
The district attorney offered a plea deal, but Willis dropped one of the cases involving aggravated stalking. The agreement called for a three-year sentence, of which one year would be spent in jail and the remaining time, after credit for time already served, would be served on probation. Mainor, though, did not support this arrangement. She said that Willis had broken the Georgia Crime Victims Bill of Rights by not telling her about the offer.
The lawsuit claims that in October 2020, the campaign worker—who was known to be Arrington’s friend—hired the county commissioner to act as his attorney. In the lawsuit, Mainor claims that the commissioner circumvented the District Attorney’s office’s established office policies by using his influence.
The lawsuit claims that because of Commissioner Arrington’s powerful position in the District Attorney’s Office, people of Fulton County hire him as a defense lawyer. According to the lawsuit, Arrington’s duties as a Fulton County Commissioner include supervising and deciding on the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office budget.
Mainor said that Willis had neglected to notify her about court proceedings and had frequently released her stalker on bond for offenses that did not qualify for bond. She further said that prior to Willis taking office, she and Arrington had discussed the case.
Mainor voiced her dissatisfaction during a press conference on Tuesday, claiming that neither as a victim nor as a Fulton County resident, she ever received assistance from the commissioner. She added that the commissioner had always supported her opponent and had targeted her after she had contacted the Office on Violence Against Women of the U.S. Department of Justice.
Mainor filed an ethics complaint against Arrington in October 2020. But in March 2021, the county ethics board closed the matter. In the case, Mainor claims that the board resolved the ethics issue outside of the proper protocol.
Arrington did not immediately reply, and when contacted, the spokesperson for the Fulton County District Attorney’s office did not offer any remarks. Additionally, Mainor brought up the Prosecuting Attorneys Qualification Commission, a law that Republican Governor Brian Kemp had earlier this year signed into law.
Mainor claims that the Prosecuting Attorneys Qualification Commission’s passing is a critical step in holding people accountable and giving citizens who have been let down by the system a way to seek redress.
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