FIRST ON FOX: A deputy district attorney in Los Angeles has filed a complaint against his bosses for an alleged “extensive retaliation campaign” that derailed his career and saw him suspended without pay and punished further for migendering a convicted child predator and killer – the latest in roughly two dozen whistleblower lawsuits.
“For the past two years, Gascon has tried to silence me,” Shea Sanna, the prosecutor, told Fox News Digital. “He has suspended me without pay, threatened my livelihood, attacked my credibility, tarnished my reputation, demoted me, investigated me, and harassed me, all so I would obey him; so I would stay quiet; so I wouldn’t speak up on behalf of those most affected by his misguided political policies.”
Sanna is accusing Los Angeles District Attorney Georgie Gasco, the county and other officials of whistleblower retaliation and the intentional infliction of emotional distress, according to court filings obtained by Fox News Digital.
In one instance, Gascon’s office sought to investigate him for “insubordination” while he was away on an approved vacation, the filing alleges.
But much of the conflict stems from Gascon’s handling of James “Hannah” Tubbs, a convicted child molester who also bashed his own friend’s skull in with a rock in Kern County.
“Since publicly opposing Gascón’s mishandling of the Tubbs case, Gascón has set his sights on Sanna, looking to manufacture any conceivable reason to make an example of his perceived disloyalty and ultimately, terminate him,” Sanna’s attorneys at the Dhillon Law Group said in a statement.
Tubbs was about to be paroled from an adult men’s prison on assault charges in 2021, but Los Angeles prosecutors asked for a custody transfer so he could face justice in connection with a 2014 attack on a 10-year-old girl.
