Greitens investigator pleads guilty to evidence tampering

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By JIM SALTER

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The investigator who played a key role in former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens’ resignation in 2018 pleaded guilty to misdemeanor evidence tampering on Wednesday, a day before jury selection was set to start in his trial on seven felony counts including perjury.

Prosecutors dropped the felony charges against private investigator William Tisaby, replacing it with the one misdemeanor. Tisaby received a suspended sentence of one year of probation.

Tisaby’s trial was set to unfold as Greitens is running for U.S. Senate and amid allegations of abuse from his ex-wife.

Tisaby was indicted in 2019 on six counts of perjury and one count of evidence tampering, crimes prosecutors say he committed while investigating allegations that Greitens took a compromising photo of a woman and threatened to use it as blackmail.



FILE - Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens gestures while speaking to reporters in Jefferson City on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022. Jury selection starts Thursday, March 24, 2022, in the perjury and evidence tampering case against William Tisaby. He was hired by St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner in 2018 to investigate then-Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, resulting in an invasion of privacy indictment. The case didn't go to trial, but Greitens resigned in June 2018. Prosecutors say Tisaby lied under oath during the Greitens investigation. (AP Photo/David A. Lieb File)


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DROPPED SEVEN FELONY COUNTS!!!! Tisaby received a suspended sentence of one year of probation.

[PSPS]

1. Another example of how broken the "rule of law" has become.

[reACTIONary]

2. The charges stemmed from Tisaby's statement....

The charges stemmed from Tisaby’s statement that he had not taken notes in an interview with the woman when a video later showed that he had, and his statement that he hadn’t received notes from the prosecutor’s office before he interviewed the woman when a document later showed that he had.

I'm not sure how that warrants seven felony counts. Maybe it does. Maybe he was overcharged.

[lagomorph777]

3. Reading and taking notes for an interview is a felony?

How does that work?

[reACTIONary]

4. I know, right? Let alone...

... SEVEN felonies.

[Deminpenn]

5. Lying about it under oath is

thus the perjury charge.