{"id":1427028,"date":"2022-04-09T17:29:53","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T21:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1427028"},"modified":"2022-04-09T17:29:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T21:29:57","slug":"court-orders-soros-funded-prosecutor-in-greitens-case-to-release-texts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/court-orders-soros-funded-prosecutor-in-greitens-case-to-release-texts\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Orders Soros-Funded Prosecutor in Greitens Case to Release Texts"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fcourt-orders-soros-funded-prosecutor-in-greitens-case-to-release-texts%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=1427028&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><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The Missouri Supreme Court on Friday affirmed a lower court\u2019s ruling that ordered St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner to turn over more than two years\u2019 worth of communication records with billionaire Democrat megadonor George Soros.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We caught them. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EmPLlelCE4\">pic.twitter.com\/EmPLlelCE4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eric Greitens (@EricGreitens) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EricGreitens\/status\/1512618888403603459?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Just the News editor John Solomon filed a public records\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/government\/courts-law\/missouri-supreme-court-sides-john-solomon-sunshine-law-case-against-st-louis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">request<\/a>\u00a0under Missouri law in 2019 seeking communications records between Gardner\u2019s office and Soros, the Soros Fund Management, and Soros\u2019 Open Society Foundation\u00a0in connection with Gardner\u2019s prosecution of former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens (R) in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The public records request <a href=\"https:\/\/app.ediscoveryassistant.com\/case_law\/39868-solomon-v-st-louis-circuit-attorney\">sought<\/a> \u201call calendar entries, phone messages, text messages,\u00a0emails, encrypted app chats, letter correspondence[,] and long-distance toll records\u201d Gardner made from January 6, 2017, through July 3, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Soros and his groups, the request sought communications records between Gardner and the Missouri Workforce Housing Association, two state representatives, and several other individuals and groups.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Gardner failed to comply with Solomon\u2019s initial request, which forced Solomon to take his fight through the judiciary. Solomon\u2019s lawsuit alleged that Gardner\u2019s refusal was a purposeful violation of the law and\u00a0sought\u00a0the release of the records, civil penalties, and attorneys\u2019 fees, according to Just the News.<\/p>\n<p>The state supreme court did not hear Gardner\u2019s final appeal on Thursday and ordered Gardner on Friday to produce the requested records within 30 days. Southeastern Legal Foundation, who worked with Solomon on litigation stemming from this public records request, called the court\u2019s order \u201ca great day for public transparency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been fighting alongside John Solomon for nearly three years to obtain public records showing Kimberly Gardner\u2019s communications with liberal megadonor George Soros,\u201d Southeastern Legal Foundation general counsel Kimberly Hermann\u00a0said. \u201cGardner has exhausted her appeals and our legal win is now final. We look forward to receiving all of the records and releasing them to the public.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s order comes just days before Gardner is scheduled to have a disciplinary hearing, after Missouri Chief Disciplinary Counsel Alan Pratzel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/missouri-court-to-mull-disciplining-gardner-in-greitens-case\/\">accused<\/a> her of professional misconduct and concealing evidence in her investigation into Greitens. Gardner could potentially lose her license to practice law in Missouri if the ethics violations charges are sustained at Monday\u2019s hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Gardner launched a politically charged investigation into Greitens in 2018 after the former governor was accused of having an affair and blackmailing the woman with compromising photos while in office. Instead of having the St. Louis Police Department investigate these allegations, Gardner hired former FBI agent William Tisaby to conduct the investigation.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Last month, Tisaby pled\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/23\/investigator-in-eric-greitens-case-pleads-guilty-to-evidence-tampering\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">guilty<\/a>\u00a0to evidence tampering and was sentenced to probation after facing six felony counts of perjury and one count of evidence tampering in connection with the Greitens investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Gardner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2018\/05\/14\/charge-against-gov-eric-greitens-dropped-after-defense-allowed-to-put-prosecutor-on-stand\/\">dropped<\/a> an invasion of privacy charge against Greitens after a judge determined she would have to testify under oath as part of the case.<\/p>\n<p>Greitens was forced to resign as governor during Gardner\u2019s investigation and announced March of 2021 he would run for the U.S. Senate in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>After the court\u2019s order on Friday, Florida congressman Matt Gaetz\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/mattgaetz\/status\/1512535156929830916\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>, \u201cIt really seems like a lot of evil, powerful forces are trying to keep Eric Greitens out of the Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It really seems like a lot of evil, powerful forces are trying to keep Eric Greitens out of the Senate. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/13stcY505P\">https:\/\/t.co\/13stcY505P<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattgaetz\/status\/1512535156929830916?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Missouri Supreme Court on Friday affirmed a lower court\u2019s ruling that ordered St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner to turn over more than two years\u2019 worth of communication records<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"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-1427028","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\/1427028","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427028\/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=1427028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}