Eric Greitens, who resigned this week as governor of Missouri, will remain a recipient of a lucrative prize for Jewish humanitarians sponsored by one of the Jewish community’s most notable philanthropists. The 44-year-old Republican, the state’s first Jewish governor, won the Charles Bronfman prize in 2012 for his establishment of a nonprofit called The Mission…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Eric Greitens, the Republican governor of Missouri who for months has faced the threat of impeachment in part because of charges stemming from a sex scandal, has quit. “Let’s walk off the battlefield with our heads held high,” Greitens, 44, said Tuesday evening in a livestreamed announcement. He maintained his insistence that…
The woman at the center of Missouri governor Eric Greitens’ sex scandal has spoken publicly for the first time since news of the affair broke in January. “I didn’t want this. I wasn’t out to get anyone,” the woman, who is identified only by her initials K.S., told Missouri station KSDK in an interview published…
May 14 (Reuters) – St. Louis prosecutors on Monday dismissed the criminal invasion of privacy charge against Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, ending a widely anticipated trial for the state’s top politician related to a sex scandal before the jury was even selected. However, the case will be refiled, the office of Circuit Attorney for the…
The woman who accused Missouri’s governor of taking nude photographs of her without her consent will testify at his trial, which begins next week, ABC News reported. Gov. Eric Greitens is accused of taking a nonconsensual nude photograph of a woman he was having an affair with, while she was tied up. He allegedly threatened…
Missouri lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to begin a special session for considering the impeachment of the state’s scandal-mired governor, Eric Greitens, POLITICO reported. The vote comes a day after a report released by state lawmakers accused Greitens, who is Jewish, of violating federal campaign finance laws. Lawmakers voted for the special session to address the report,…
Eric Greitens, the Missouri governor accused of blackmailing a former sexual partner with nude images, is now accused of lying to a state ethics committee about whether he used a private charity’s donor list for his own campaign fundraising, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. Missouri launched a special investigation into Greitens’ campaign funding tactics in…
The Missouri Republican Party is in turmoil, again, after Gov. Eric Greitens was slapped with a second felony charge — opening the door for Democrats to hold a key Senate seat. Greitens was charged with illegally obtaining a fundraising list from a veterans charity he founded. He was indicted in February for allegedly taking a…
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