{"id":1400639,"date":"2022-03-25T14:45:12","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T18:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1400639"},"modified":"2022-03-25T14:45:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T18:45:28","slug":"investigator-pleads-guilty-in-former-mo-governor-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/investigator-pleads-guilty-in-former-mo-governor-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigator pleads guilty in former Mo. governor case"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Finvestigator-pleads-guilty-in-former-mo-governor-case%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1400639&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2710723\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2710723\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2710723\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/AP22073732060641.jpg\" alt=\"FILE - Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens gestures while speaking to reporters in Jefferson City on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022. Jury selection starts Thursday, March 24, 2022, in the perjury and evidence tampering case against William Tisaby. He was hired by St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner in 2018 to investigate then-Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, resulting in an invasion of privacy indictment. The case didn&#039;t go to trial, but Greitens resigned in June 2018. Prosecutors say Tisaby lied under oath during the Greitens investigation. (AP Photo\/David A. Lieb File)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/AP22073732060641.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/AP22073732060641-280x210-1.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/AP22073732060641-583x437-1.jpg 583w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/AP22073732060641-768x576-1.jpg 768w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2710723\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE \u2013 Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens gestures while speaking to reporters in Jefferson City on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022. Jury selection starts Thursday, March 24, 2022, in the perjury and evidence tampering case against William Tisaby. He was hired by St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner in 2018 to investigate then-Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, resulting in an invasion of privacy indictment. The case didn\u2019t go to trial, but Greitens resigned in June 2018. Prosecutors say Tisaby lied under oath during the Greitens investigation. (AP Photo\/David A. Lieb File)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 10:47 AM PT \u2013 Friday, March 25, 2022<\/h5>\n<p>A trial for a former FBI agent came to a screeching halt before it began. Jury selection was set to begin Thursday, but 69-year-old William Tisaby decided to plead guilty at the last minute.<\/p>\n<p>Tisaby admitted in his plea Wednesday to misdemeanor evidence tampering related to the 2018 case on then-Missouri Governor Eric Greitens who had been accused of sexual assault and blackmail, which led him to resign from office.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the trial, Tisaby faced six -counts of perjury and one-count of evidence tampering for his conduct in the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Tisaby was said to have falsely testified in a deposition regarding certain documents involved in the case, however, his attorney said he wasn\u2019t trying to mislead anyone.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cI think it was just more of an issue of just negligence in this matter,\u201d said Jermaine Wooten, Tisaby\u2019s attorney. \u201cIt was a slew of documents that he had and he just went into that deposition really just not prepared. And that\u2019s what it was, there was no malice in this man\u2019s heart.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>His attorney also stated health concerns as the reason for the now-guilty plea.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cWe met with Mr. Tisaby along with his wife and they just felt because of his health decline and along with her health situation, it was in their best interest to enter a plea of guilty,\u201d Wooten explained.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However, special prosecutor for the case, Robert Russell, said Tisaby was trying to hide information.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe statements that were going on in the deposition were to try to conceal and suppress those particular documents that he didn\u2019t want to talk about,\u201d he explained. \u201cAnd we had him plead guilty to that information, he did so by testifying that they didn\u2019t exist when in fact they did.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, instead of facing prison time, Tisaby will now serve one year of probation and must pay court costs. The trouble for Greitens doesn\u2019t seem to be over though as his ex-wife has accused him of physical abuse.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/one-on-one-with-ariz-senate-candidate-justin-olson-2\/\">One-On-One With Ariz. Senate Candidate, Justin Olson<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE \u2013 Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens gestures while speaking to reporters in Jefferson City on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022. Jury selection starts Thursday, March 24, 2022, in the perjury and evidence tampering case against William Tisaby. He was hired by St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner in 2018 to investigate then-Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1400639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1400639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1400639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}