A former assistant attorney general alleges in a whistleblower suit filed May 18 that the Texas Office of the Attorney General fired her in 2008 for reporting that two OAG attorneys in the Dallas child support office tried “to suborn perjured testimony” from her about a Dallas judge.
Ginger Weatherspoon, who worked in the OAG’s child support division from July 2006 until November 2008, alleges in her original petition in Weatherspoon v. Office of the Attorney General of Texas that in February 2008, James Jones and Harry Monck, then-senior regional attorneys in the Dallas child support office, tried to coerce her to sign an affidavit containing “numerous misrepresentations” about a conversation she had had with 254th District Judge David Hanschen. Weatherspoon further alleges in the petition, filed in the 44th District Court in Dallas, that Jones and Monck “confined her in a room against her will” after she refused to sign the affidavit. [See the original petition.]
