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Greitens lied to state ethics commission, took charity donor list, report says
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| Contributor | BrentinCO |
| Last Edited | BrentinCO May 02, 2018 09:46pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - St. Louis Post Dispatch |
| News Date | Thursday, May 3, 2018 03:45:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Gov. Eric Greitens ran an off-the-books political campaign in 2014, took a private charity’s donor list to raise campaign funds and lied about that list in a signed statement to the state’s ethics commission, according to documents and testimony from six of his former employees.
The findings are outlined in a 23-page report released Wednesday by a Missouri House committee investigating Greitens, a Republican. The report contains evidence that Greitens and associates lied in campaign filings, a class A misdemeanor, and violated campaign finance law — a civil offense — when he operated a shadow campaign before filing required paperwork with election authorities.
The report and its reams of exhibits plot the former Navy SEAL’s methodical rise from nonprofit founder to “conservative outsider” governor of Missouri — by relying on money he raised from members of the charity’s donor list that he had pledged to keep private. |
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