Committee drops subpoena seeking Greitens dark money donors
BRANSON MO NEWS: JEFFERSON CITY • A panel of lawmakers investigating former Gov. Eric Greitens has dropped its attempt to secure records showing who secretly contributed money to the ousted chief executive.An attorney for the special House committee that had been deliberating on whether to recommend Greitens be impeached withdrew a request Wednesday seeking records from the ex-governor’s campaign committee and a dark money nonprofit called A New Missouri.The withdrawal notes that the panel may again seek the records. At issue is the wording of the committee’s purpose, which is to investigate issues related to Gov. Greitens.
“The Special Committee on Oversight believes the requested records are relevant to its charge and should be produced for the committee and all Missourians to see. However, the committee has determined to withdraw its pending request as it reviews its options,” attorney Mark Kempton wrote in a document obtained by the Post-Dispatch.Now that he isn’t governor, it remains unclear whether the committee has the power to subpoena those particular documents.On Friday, the same day Greitens formally resigned from office under the cloud of an ongoing scandal, Cole County Circuit Judge Jon Beetem granted a reprieve from an order requiring the two organizations to turn over a list of donors.As part of the investigation, the nonprofit and the campaign committee had been facing a Friday deadline to disclose the evidence, but Beetem allowed for a delay because of the extraordinary circumstances of Greitens’ abrupt departure.Attorney Catherine Hanaway, a former House speaker who is representing the two campaign organizations in behalf of Greitens, argued that the House panel created to investigate the governor no longer has the authority to demand the documents because of Greitens’ resignation.In a statement Wednesday, Hanaway said, “Our motion to reconsider was so persuasive the …
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