GOP Chair Of Panel Probing Greitens: We Found Evidence Of Multiple 'Crimes'
By Allegra Kirkland | June 25, 2018 2:58 pm
Disgraced former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens may no longer be in office, but hes not out of hot water. The GOP-led Missouri House committee tasked with investigating allegations against Greitens found evidence that he engaged in multiple acts constituting crimes, misconduct, and acts of moral turpitude, according to a scathing Monday letter from committee chairman. A super-majority of the panels members would have recommended the governors impeachment on those grounds, Republican Rep. Jay Barnes wrote.
Barnes also announced that he intends to file a complaint with the Missouri Ethics Commission alleging that Greitens 2016 campaign and a Greitens-linked nonprofit, A New Missouri, Inc., improperly worked together to dodge campaign finance disclosure laws.
Barnes wrote that he now believes A New Missouri was a criminal enterprise from its inception designed to illegally skirt donation limits and conceal the identities of major donors to Eric Greitens and ballot initiatives relating to right-to-work that were supported by the former governor.
Greitens stepped down from office on May 29, finally caving to immense bipartisan pressure to give up his seat.
In exchange for his resignation, St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner agreed to drop a felony computer tampering charge against him for allegedly obtaining a donor list from The Mission Continues, a veterans charity he founded, and using it to raise money for his gubernatorial bid.
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