Lawsuit: Former Virginia Deputy Attorney General Claims She Was Fired For FB Posts Praising Rioters

Courthouse News reports:

Suing Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares for defamation on Wednesday, a woman fired just weeks after she was hired as a deputy attorney general says the office falsely labeled her departure as a resignation. Monique Miles claims that Miyares fired her for her opinions on the 2020 election and the riot on the U.S. Capitol that followed on Jan. 6, 2021. Represented by the Arlington, Virginia, lawyer Steven Krieger, she filed suit in Richmond City Circuit Court, seeking $1 million.

In the complaint, Miles accuses Miyares and three other officials of damaging her reputation and client base for her law firm. Miles says Miyares hired her in mid-January 2021, shortly after his election, only to terminate her employment as The Washington Post prepared to publish screenshots of comments that Miles had posted to Facebook the previous year after armed supporters of Trump attempted to overthrow the 2020 election.

Read the full article. Miles used the surname Miglia on Facebook. Her Twitter feed is mostly retweets of MTG, Zircon & Burlap, and other far-right cultists.

A former deputy Virginia attorney general who says she was fired over social media posts in which she praised the Capitol rioters as “patriots” and falsely claimed Donald Trump won the 2020 election is suing the attorney general’s office for defamation. https://t.co/bjy0FZNDad

— NBC4 Washington (@nbcwashington) August 20, 2022