Left to represent herself, ex-Wabash Twp. trustee: ‘I’ll keep fighting’
Jennifer ‘Rae’ Teising files as her own attorney, as she contends her lawyer was intimidated off her defamation, backpay lawsuit by Wabash Township attorney's threat
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Left to represent herself, ex-Wabash Twp. trustee: ‘I’ll keep fighting’
Jennifer Rae Teising, the former Wabash Township trustee forced out of office after a felony conviction that was later overturned, filed late last week to represent herself in a backpay and defamation lawsuit against current and former township officials.
Teising said in an interview Monday that Frankfort-based attorney Thomas Little’s withdrawal from the case – something she’s challenging as intimidation by an attorney for the township – complicates things.
“But I’ll keep fighting,” Teising, who now goes by her middle name Rae, said. “I never intended to be silent forever. Only one side of this story has been told. And it’s important to me that my side of what has happened be open to the public.”
Teising is suing a list of township officials, past and present, for as much as $820,000 in backpay and damages, accusing them of defamation and wrongly spreading a narrative that she’d abandoned her elected office by moving away.
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