ST. LOUIS (AP) — An attorney for Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens is urging the state’s attorney general to recuse his office from an investigation of a veterans charity founded by the governor. In a letter written Monday and obtained by The Associated Press, attorney Edward L. Dowd Jr. raised concerns over Josh Hawley’s comment last…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner says claims by Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens’ attorneys that she purposefully hid evidence are an unwarranted attempt to distract from a pending criminal case against the governor. Greitens’ attorneys on Thursday accused Gardner of misconduct for withholding a videotaped interview of a woman with…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) There’s new developments in the criminal case against Governor Eric Greitens. Fox 2 reports that the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office turned of a video deposition of Greitens’ former mistress to the court Wednesday at 6 p.m. Greitens’ lawyers were told the interview was lost because the video machine didn’t work.…
Jefferson City, MO (KTRS) Lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle are weighing after the release of the House Special Committee report on embattled Governor Eric Greitens. The cites testimony from a woman who claims Greitens initiated a physically aggressive unwanted sexual encounter and threatened to distribute a partially nude photo of her if she…
ST. LOUIS (AP) St. Louis Circuit Judge Rex Burlison has issued a partial gag order for attorneys and witnesses in the criminal case against Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens. Burlison issued the order Tuesday in response to a request from St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner. Gardner expressed concern that Greitens’ attorneys were trying the case in…
Jefferson City, MO (KTRS) Missouri’s First Lady Sheena Greitens claims she was cyberstalked by the ex-husband of the former mistress with whom her husband had an affair. The St. Louis Post Dispatch reports that Sheena Greitens sent a letter to the state legislative committee that is investigating her husband. The Washington Examiner has obtained a copy…
Jefferson City, MO (KTRS) The Missouri House committee investigating Governor Eric Greitens has declined a request to delay it’s findings. Attorneys for Greitens say state lawmakers’ investigation into the Republican governor could taint jurors in his upcoming criminal trial. The Governor allegedly took and transmitted a nonconsensual photo of a partially nude woman with whom…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis judge has refused to move up the felony trial of Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens. Greitens was indicted last month on fourth-degree invasion of privacy for allegedly taking a compromising photo of a woman with whom he was having an affair in 2015, before he was elected. He has…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri House committee tasked with investigating Gov. Eric Greitens is set to meet for the first time. The special panel is scheduled to convene Tuesday for an organizational meeting. The bipartisan panel was formed by GOP House Speaker Todd Richardson in response to the Republican governor’s indictment on a…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Harvard Law School professor whose past clients include the family of the 18-year-old fatally shot in 2014 by a policeman in Ferguson, Missouri, has joined the prosecution team in the criminal case against Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Circuit Judge Rex Burlison on Monday approved…