VA's new AG fires U-Va counsel who's on leave working as investigator for Jan 6 committee

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justin jouvenal
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FULL STORY: New Va. AG Jason Miyares has fired U-Va.'s counsel, who was on leave working as the top investigator for the Jan. 6 panel. Miyares has also fired George Mason University's top counsel as well

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Va.'s new attorney general fires U-Va. counsel who was on leave working as top investigator for...
Jason Miyares also fired the counsel for George Mason University.
11:55 AM · Jan 23, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/01/23/heaphy-uva-miyares-removal/

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Virginia’s new Republican attorney general has fired University of Virginia’s counsel, who was on leave from the job to work as the top investigator for U.S. House of Representatives panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, the attorney and university said.

Tim Heaphy, who had worked at the state’s flagship university for about three years, was among roughly 30 staffers whom were let go by Jason S. Miyares shortly before he took office a little over a week ago. Democrats have questioned the firings and how they were carried out.

Victoria LaCivita, a Miyares spokeswoman, said the attorney general’s office had also fired the counsel for George Mason University, Brian Walther, but offered no explanation for why he was let go. Both Heaphy and Walther are Democrats.

LaCivita did not respond to a question about whether any other counsels at Virginia’s more than three dozen public colleges and universities had been let go.

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[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

1. Virginia's new AG removes 2 lawyers at public universities

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Virginia’s new Republican attorney general has fired lawyers for two large public universities, his office said, marking more significant changes by Jason Miyares while ascending to his new job.

Tim Heaphy, counsel for the University of Virginia, and George Mason University counsel Brian Walther have been let go, Miyares spokeswoman Victoria LaCivita told The Washington Post. School counsel within Virginia's public colleges and universities are appointed by the attorney general.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/virginias-ag-removes-2-lawyers-211709628.html

Interesting that the AG has that much power.

[Nevilledog]

3. Heaphy

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Geoff Bennett
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Tim Heaphy also conducted the independent investigation into the 2017 deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville. >>>

Hugo Lowell
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New: Virginia’s new GOP attorney general has fired Tim Heaphy as the University of Virginia’s counsel, after he accepted a position last year to serve on the Jan. 6 committee as Chief Investigative Counsel.

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2. bloody sunday

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4. Turning the state into a plutocrat run enterprise aren't they.......

way to go Virginia.....who's next .....people who voted democrat......