Good day all. We haven’t heard much from the St. Louis circuit attorney, (Their term for District attorney) for a while now. The last I heard, she and her entire office had been removed from the case involving the McCloskeys and that an investigation into her actions regarding the former governor was coming to a conclusion.
Well, that conclusion appears to have been reached and Kim Gardner is facing a hearing that could see her disbarred. Here are the details from Fox News:
St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner is facing a disciplinary hearing that could result in the loss of her law license.
An investigation launched in 2019 by the office of Alan Pratzel, the chief disciplinary counsel appointed by the Missouri Supreme Court, has found probable cause that Gardner committed professional misconduct during her past attempts to prosecute former Republican Gov. Eric Greitens, KMOV reported.
I don’t have a lot of information on that case, although I did write about it in a blog post last summer. The short version is Gardner is a Soros D.A. and has been abusing her office to go after anyone who stood in the way of the Soros agenda. Governor Greitens was one such target and was forced to resign. He has since been completely cleared of the accusations and that fraudulent investigation is why Gardner is looking down the barrel of a disbarment cannon.
The case was assigned Tuesday to go before a hearing, Fox 2 reported. A state webpage published Tuesday lists Gardner’s name among other cases pending before disciplinary hearing panels against Missouri lawyers.
“As the Circuit Attorney has repeatedly proven time after time, she has acted in full accordance with the law during the investigation into former Governor Greitens,” Gardner’s office said in a statement released Tuesday evening. “Despite several investigations attempting to uncover illegal wrongdoing by her office in this case, none has ever been found. We are confident that a full review of the facts will show that the Circuit Attorney has not violated the ethical standards of the State of Missouri.”
Actually, I think they have found evidence of wrong doing and this is why Gardner is looking at disbarment. Her office, last year, decided to protect criminals who broke into a private, gated community, (No charges filed for the obvious breaches of the law), and instead went after a couple who, in accordance with the laws of the state of Missouri, used firearms to defend themselves and their homes.
Gardner later made national headlines in a separate investigation into Mark and Patricia McCloskey, who were indicted by a St. Louis grand jury in October on felony charges of unlawful use of a weapon and tampering with evidence.
That tampering charge is so bogus it isn’t funny. If anything, it’s the Circuit Attorney’s office that can be charged with tampering with evidence. This was in regards to the pistol Mr. McCloskey was waving around. (Note to the McCloskeys. Time for a firearms safety refresher class) The pistol had been disabled so that they could bring it into a courtroom as evidence in a case they were working.
Since it was used in a court proceeding, there is a ton of paperwork available regarding the usability of that pistol, including the method used to render it nonfunctional. An assistant City Attorney, when told by someone in forensics that the gun was not working, told him to fix it, which he did. That, to me, is tampering with evidence.
The McCloskeys, two married defense attorneys in their 60s, were seen in viral photographs with guns outside their mansion as demonstrators marched through their private St. Louis neighborhood on the way to the home of then-Mayor Lyda Krewson on June 28 amid nationwide protests in response to the death of George Floyd.
The couple said they felt threatened after protesters broke down an iron gate and ignored a “No Trespassing” sign. Protest leaders denied damaging the gate and said the march was peaceful.
Considering what was happening last year with all the riots, looting and burning being done by the Antifa and Black Communist Lives Only Matter terrorist organizations, they were right to be concerned. That entire area is listed “PRIVATE PROPERTY” and is NOT open to the public. (Gated community I believe it’s called)
In a statement last June, Gardner described the encounter between the McCloskeys and the crowd as “a violent assault” against those exercising their First Amendment rights. Missouri Gov. Mike Parson, a Republican, previously called Gardner’s action toward the couple “outrageous.”
The Governor has his pardon pen all ready to go with fresh ink. The McCloskeys have requested that he not sign a pardon at this time, which should demonstrate that the know that Gardner is a corrupt prosecutor and that they have an excellent case. (That they followed the law of Missouri helps)
Last month, the attorney representing the McCloskeys, Joel Schwartz, filed a motion seeking to send the case back to the grand jury to decide if the couple should have been indicted in the first place, citing alleged “bias” at Gardner’s office that he said tainted the grand jury process. But Circuit Judge David Mason denied the motion on Friday and set trial for Nov. 1. The next hearing will be in June.
As I understand it, the Circuit Attorney’s office has been removed from the case. I don’t know much about this judge, and wasn’t able to find much about him. If he’s a moonbat Progressive, you can count on him to abuse his authority in this case. We will see. Returning to the actual cause of Gardner’s heartburn, Gardner’s “Investigator” is looking at serious prison time for lying to the court, and it appears she knew about it.
Greitens resigned in June 2018 amid a sex scandal, criminal charges and ethics investigations. After the conclusion of a criminal case later that year, his attorneys filed complaints against Gardner’s law license, alleging Gardner had an ethical obligation to correct the record during a deposition of private investigator William Tisaby.
Tisaby has since been charged with six counts of perjury and one count of tampering with evidence after a special prosecutor determined that he had lied under oath.
Tisaby was an FBI agent at one time. Considering how low, corrupt and incompetent the Bureau is, he must have been one of of their shining stars. I can see why Gardner hired him. They are two peas in a rotten pod. The reason Gardner brought this accused liar in was her attempt to railroad the Republican governor.
Gardner, a Democrat, launched an investigation in January 2018 after TV station KMOV aired a report that Greitens, a married father of two, had had an affair in 2015 with his St. Louis hairdresser. The report suggested the governor also blackmailed the woman and threatened to release a photo depicting her partially nude if she exposed their relationship.
This is a pretty rough thing if the Governor had actually done it. He was indicted by a grand jury, and it was the testimony of Tisaby that laid the ground work for the charges. However, it looks like he lived up to the FBI standards and manufactured everything.
Complaints made by Greitens’ team accuse Gardner, who was present when Tisaby gave his deposition, of ignoring her professional responsibility to correct the record. But Gardner claimed she did not have an obligation to do so because she was not representing Tisaby at the time.
It was at this point that Gardner’s cunning plan to railroad the Governor went off the rails. As the jury was being selected, the judge in the case ordered Gardner to provide a statement under oath regarding the problems with Tisaby’s testimony. They accused Gardner of hiding evidence and letting the investigator commit perjury.
Gardner said she had no choice but to drop the charge because Missouri’s rules of professional conduct prohibit attorneys from litigating a case in which they’ve been called as a witness.
That was her excuse, and while it might have been technically accurate, it was not true. She dropped the case because she was on the verge of being caught out. It might have been a true “Perry Mason” moment in court. Gardner might have thought that dropping the case would be the end of it, especially since she had forced the Governor to resign due to her actions, but she failed to take into account that Greitens would fight back. She thought wrong, and now there is a fair chance that she will lose her license. I wonder if that would force her to resign her position? I’ll let other worry about that.
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