https://justthenews.com/accoun...-george-soros-backed

A long article. This was a DEM political hit job on a REP governor. So typical of what has become DEM SOP.


Kimberly Gardner made history in 2016, roaring to an election victory as St. Louis city’s first African-American chief prosecutor on a campaign funded heavily by the liberal mega-donor George Soros. Four years later, she finds herself under investigation and her chief investigator already indicted for a prosecution gone bad, one that forced Missouri’s Republican governor to resign in what some now believe may have been a political attack.

Gardner, a Democrat and the city’s circuit attorney, was forced in 2018 to withdraw her indictment accusing Gov. Eric Greitens of felony invasion of privacy for allegedly taking a picture of his scantily clad girlfriend and threatening to release it if she talked about their affair. Gardner’s office dropped the charge after admitting she did not have proof of the photo or its transmission .

Investigators now allege the Greitens prosecution, which forced the governor to resign less than two years into his tenure, was built on lies that included perjury and hiding exculpatory evidence that would have helped demonstrate Greitens' innocence, court documents show.

Most significantly, testimony transcripts and court records obtained by Just the News show the woman Gardner built her case around, beautician Katrina Sneed, testified she was asked unsolicited by Gardner’s office to come forward as a witness and that she was actually reluctant to accuse Greitens because the entire story of a photo on his mobile phone may have been a dream.

The magnitude of alleged holes and potential misconduct in the case that Gardner brought against Greitens have been laid bare in subsequent court filings, which include a seven-count felony indictment against Gardner's chief investigator in the case, William Tisaby.

Gardner to date has not been charged with wrongdoing and has steadfastly denied she engaged in any misconduct, even as the city police and a special prosecutor have charged her former investigator in the case, the ex-FBI agent Tisaby , with six counts of perjury and one count of evidence tampering in the Greitens case

The Greitens case isn’t the only controversy impacting Gardner: More than 70 prosecutors in her office have been fired or forced to quit and dozens of St. Louis police officers have been banned from testifying in court. She also was fined more than $60,000 for campaign finance violations. After signing a plea deal, Gardner issued a statement blaming clerical errors for the campaign violations and accusing a "Republican political operative" for filing the complaint against her.

Greitens says he believes he was forced to give up his governorship for allegations that were unsubstantiated at best, and outright false at worst. While he admits an extramarital affair with Sneed, he has always denied Gardner's charge.

“As a longtime prosecutor, I’m stunned that there’s any indictment in this case at all,” Warren wrote. “Why? Because right out of the gate, in court, the State admitted they do not have the photograph purported to have been taken and no evidence that it was transmitted. They are simply asking you to believe such acts occurred because they wish it so.”

Concerns about the prosecution's conduct snowballed quickly, as defense lawyers gained access to evidence and discovered some of Tisaby’s alleged misconduct.

In May 2018, as the case was heading to trial, the Circuit Attorney’s office voluntarily dropped the charges against Greitens.

On June 29, 2018, St. Louis Circuit Judge Michael K. Mullen appointed Gerard Carmody of Carmody MacDonald law firm in St. Louis as special prosecutor, with subpoena power to investigate Gardner’s office and its conduct in the Greitens case. Carmody secured Tisaby’s indictment late last year.

In advance of Tisaby’s trial later this month, Gardner filed a lawsuit against the City of St. Louis, the Police Association, Special Prosecutor Carmody, two of his children who work at his law firm assigned to this investigation, and two police officials. Gardner seeks to “redress violations” of her civil rights and ability to do her job under the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, claiming there are “white supremacists” on the St. Louis police force.

The final chapter of the Greitens-Gardner drama is yet to be written, but already it has generated wide discussion that the concerns about weaponized law enforcement and political prosecution in Washington may have been exported to America's heartland.

Typical Democrat perversion of justice.

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Originally posted by Fenris:
Typical Democrat perversion of justice.

Actually it was much more sordid. It was a dual move by Soros sponsored Dim Prosecutor and elements of the Missouri Republican party aka "MO Deep State'. The tale involved bags of money from "unknown" sources received at a private attorney's office, along with rumor, innuendo, baseless allegations (the persecution by the St. Louis City Pa along with campaign finance complaints that were unfounded), and fake news......sounds familiar.

Is it just me, or does it seem like Gardner may have violated Grieten's civil rights in a way that would have to be resolved in federal court?