George Soros-bankrolled prosecutor in St. Louis was fed derogatory information about Eric Greitens
- In addition, the prosecutor received funding from a Soros-connected political action committee
- Hidden from public view for years, the documents provide new insights into the behavior of prosecutors and the external forces they worked with
Gardner abruptly reversed course later that year and dropped all charges before trial, admitting she never had material evidence of the photo or the extortion.
- The new documents released to Just the News show that in an email with Gardner on Feb. 18, 2018, just four days before Greitens was indicted, Katrina Sneed raised concerns that the alleged photo didn't exist.
Al Watkins, the lawyer for Katrina Sneed's estranged husband Philip Sneed, approached prosecutors with evidence of the Greitens affair in January 2018.
- In an email to Gardner's office, Watkins offered to make his client available to prosecutors, but declined to discuss the payments in detail, citing attorney-client privilege.
Jeff Smith
- Former Missouri state senator and executive director of the Missouri Workforce Housing Association
- In February 2018, Smith forwarded to Gardner's chief investigator a list of names of potential witnesses against Greitens including disaffected campaign staffers
- Less than a week later, the housing executive wrote a follow-up email "to offer a bit of context on some potentially fruitful lines of inquiry," listing other people for Gardner to speak with
In 2018, Smith became such an important witness that by March of that year he received a subpoena to tell his story to the grand jury that would eventually indict the governor.
- The Greitens prosecution has raised troubling questions about the weaponization of law enforcement to bring a case that was missing key evidence but still achieved a political outcome of forcing a duly elected official to resign.
For years, Gardner tried to hide these records from the public, directly disobeying the Sunshine Law and direct orders from the court to release them to the public.
- Solomon's lawsuit proves that the truth will always come out, and this case is a victory for anyone seeking transparency and accountability from prosecutors.
Greitens told Just the News that the newly released memos verify his long-held concern that critics of his low-income housing bond reforms played a role in his prosecution.
- "It's more proof that the criminal conspiracy to lie about me was directed by Jefferson City insiders," Greitins told the News.
The new documents are likely to rekindle interest in the monies that exchanged hands at the beginning of Gardner's criminal case and where they might have come from.
- Watkins, the lawyer for Philip Sneed, has publicly acknowledged he received a $50,000 payment from Scott Faughn, publisher of the Missouri Times, in early January 2018
- The money, he claimed, was his, and he was buying Philip Sneing's recordings for a book he was writing about Greitens
- Critics noted that the newspaper was struggling financially and Faughnan likely couldn't make such a large payment
- In 2007, he was convicted of forging checks in connection with his work leading the Poplar Bluff, Mo. Chamber of Commerce.
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