Former FBI agent William Don Tisaby, who investigated former Missouri governor Eric Greitens, was indicted on six perjury counts and one count of tampering with physical evidence by a grand jury in St. Louis, Missouri, Wednesday.
As the St. Louis Post-Dispatch noted, Tisaby was “hand-picked to investigate a criminal invasion-of-privacy case” against Greitens. Greitens, a Republican, was forced to resign last May, but the charges against him were dropped when the judge in his trial allowed his defense team to call the prosecutor, Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, to the stand.
Gardner accepted about $200,000 in campaign donations from super PACs linked to billionaire left-wing mega-donor George Soros in 2016. She is one of dozens of local prosecutors supported by Soros; one of the most notorious is Kim Foxx, the Cook County prosecutor who infamously let former Empire actor Jussie Smollett off the hook — after taking $400,000 from Soros.
The Post-Dispatch added (original link):
The indictment accuses Tisaby of concealing a series of documents from defense attorneys and lying under oath during the deposition “about matters that could substantially affect, or did substantially affect, the course or outcome of the Greitens case.”
“Eric Greitens should still be governor,” said Scott Rosenblum, one of Greitens’ former lawyers. “This was a misguided prosecution from the very beginning. It’s one of the worst cases of prosecutorial misconduct that I have seen in my 36 years of practicing criminal defense law.”
Tisaby’s indictment also lodges a series of claims against St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly M. Gardner: that she failed to correct Tisaby’s lies, failed to report them to police, and made incorrect statements to defense lawyers and a judge.
The events put Gardner’s law license and political future at risk.
The indictment against Tisaby, available here, notes that Gardner violated “normal protocol” and approached Tisaby on the recommendation of a law school classmate.
Tisaby is alleged, among other things, to have concealed a video recording of a witness from the defense and lied about whether it existed.
Tisaby, the Wall Street Journal reports, has pleaded not guilty. According to the Associated Press, local African-American leaders allege that the charges against Tisaby and the claims against Garnder are motivated by racism.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. He is also the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, which is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
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