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Private attorneys hired by the top Republican in the Missouri House demanded Tuesday that the ethics investigation into their client be formally dismissed.

House Speaker Dean Plocher said he cannot discuss complaints that he obstructed an ethics probe against him.

Private attorneys hired by the top Republican in the Missouri House demanded on Tuesday that the ethics investigation into their client be formally dismissed.

House Speaker Dean Plocher is running for Missouri secretary of state.

“To take seven months to get to the unlawful and circus-like events of April 15, is quite unbelievable,” the top Republican’s attorneys wrote in a letter to the chair of the House Ethics Committee.

A wide-ranging investigation into allegations of misconduct by the leader of the Missouri House appears to be escalating, with three more hearings scheduled this week.

An ethics investigation into Speaker Dean Plocher appears to be escalating, with three more hearings scheduled this week.

After an hour and a half testifying, Plocher quickly left out of a side door of the hearing room and ignored questions from reporters as he boarded an elevator.

House Speaker Dean Plocher testified Tuesday evening before a bipartisan committee investigating him over allegations of ethical misconduct.