TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Mar 14, 2022

Nashville District Attorney Glenn Funk’s office has concluded that a dog muzzle sent to the state’s former vaccine chief Dr. Michelle Fiscus was sent by someone else who fraudulently obtained a credit card in her name, WPLN reports. Last summer, Fiscus was fired from the Tennessee Department of Health. Commissioner Dr. Lisa Piercey said the firing was due to job performance. Fiscus has claimed it was political retribution for comments about vaccinating some teenagers without parental consent. In the weeks before Fiscus was fired, someone sent a muzzle to her office. It was purchased with a credit card in her name, leading some to assume that she sent the item to herself. In the report, the district attorney’s office says it is too soon to tell whether the muzzle was meant to be a political statement, but that the events appear “too coincidental to be random.” The report recommends further investigation by federal authorities.