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Release: Ethics Shmethics – Greitens Violates His Own Ethics Plan

From the Missouri Democratic Party:

Eric Greitens doubled down on his attacks against his own party again, refusing to say there is a single elected official in Jefferson City who is not corrupt or unethical, in an interview yesterday with Mark Reardon on KMOX.

 

Talk about hypocritical.

 

As Greitens sanctimoniously slams members of both parties, he continues to violate the rules he laid out in his own ethics plan.

 

Greitens’ Ethics PLAN: “End Donations from Companies Under Investigation” and “Stronger Ethics Enforcement.”

 

Greitens’ Ethics PRACTICE: Take money from morally-questionable donors of all kinds – including those with civil cases pending, with convictions for insider trading and bribing public officials, and from men accused of abusing their wives and children.

 

·         Greitens accepted a donation from ex-AIG CEO Hank Greenberg, who was under trail for fraud

·         Greitens largest individual donor has been accused of sex abuse and is facing ongoing court proceedings.

·         Greitens rented the plane of a man currently charged with “felony child abuse or neglect.”

·         Greitens received $10,000 from Craig Estey, who was fined $200,000 “for lying to state regulators about a domestic violence incident involving his estranged wife.”

·         Greitens took $10,000 from Elliott Broidy, who has been found guilty of paying “nearly a million dollars in bribes to get a quarter billion-dollar investment.”

·         Greitens cashed a $100,000 check from Steven Cohen, who pled guilty to wire and securities fraud and was forced to pay the largest insider trading fine in US history.

·         Greitens accepted $300,000 from James Parsons, who was sanctioned and fined for short selling violations.  

·         Greitens took over $5,000 from Jeffrey Brincat, the Vice President of a company involved in a “book-cooking scheme.”

 

Eric Greitens may talk tough on “cleaning up” Jefferson City, but he has failed to follow even his own promises in his own campaign.

 

If Greitens really wants root out unethical hypocrites in Missouri politics, he should start by looking in the mirror.