Comptroller Candidate Claims Attorney-Client Privilege

By Kleinheider Posted on January 15, 2009 at 8:06 am

Former Deputy Governor Justin Wilson cites confidentiality as the reason he cannot disclose what he knew and when regarding certain events in Sundquist administration:

Conservative talk radio host Steve Gill, himself a lawyer, calls that a bogus claim.

“He was working for the state of Tennessee,” Gill said. “He wasn’t Don Sunquist’s lawyer. He was an employee of the state of Tennessee, and the attorney-client privilege does not apply under those circumstances.”

Still, Republican leaders say they don’t need to ask what Wilson knows about contract fraud under the Republican administration.

“I again have the utmost confidence confidence in him, knowing him personally, having worked with him in state government,” House Republican leader Jason Mumpower said.

“Which doesn’t answer the question: why not ask him about what he knows?” Williams asked.

“There are any number of questions that anyone may or may not have been able to ask. I asked him the questions that I felt were pertinent to the process.”

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