A Missouri legal disciplinary panel concluded Tuesday that St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner violated multiple legal ethics rules when pursuing a criminal case against the state's former Governor Eric Greitens in 2018.
The panel ruled that Gardner should receive a public remand for her wrongdoings, which included failing to correct a false court filing and withholding exculpatory evidence from the defense. The ruling will now head to the Missouri Supreme Court.
The misconduct by Gardner, whose campaign for the city's top prosecutor was funded by leftist mega-donor George Soros, caused needless expense to both the defendant and the taxpayers before she dropped charges in 2018 due to lack of evidence.