Stephan Roehl
The World Affairs Council of St. Louis â a non-profit organization which assists the community in understanding global culture, policy and business ârecently hosted the virtual International Leadership Visitors Program to honor 2021 International Women of Courage award winner Mayerlis Angarita of Colombia.Â
World Affairs STL was selected as one of only 12 councils in the U.S. to participate in this Visitors Program opportunity, which connects the awardees with American counterparts to share strategies and ideas to empower women around the globe.
World Affairs STL hosted Angarita, who has advanced peace and human rights in Colombia. She founded Narrate to Live, a civil society organization that now serves more than 800 women victims of conflict. After the most recent attempt on her life, Angarita engaged the highest levels of the Colombia government to advance a comprehensive action plan to prevent violence agains
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St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner is facing ethics charges stemming from her 2018 investigation of then-Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens.
The March 3 ethics complaint, unsealed Tuesday, alleges Gardner failed to correct false statements by an investigator during the Greitens case, failed to correct false statements made to the court, failed to turn over possibly exculpatory material and falsely asserted in court that everything had been turned over to the defense.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has coverage.
Gardner’s probe had led to a February 2018 invasion-of-privacy charge against Greitens, who was accused of taking a partially nude photo of his mistress without her knowledge and consent. The charge was dropped in May 2018 after a judge ruled that Gardner could be called as a witness in the case against Greitens. The governor resigned the following month.
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’60 Minutes’ recently ran a glowing profile of St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner. Suffice it to say that many denizens of St. Louis and the metropolitan area don’t hold her in the same high regard.
Set aside the politics for a moment (I know, that’s a tall order) Gardner’s record since becoming Circuit Attorney has been
horrid less than stellar. Her office’s conviction rate has barely topped 50%; she’s created an “exclusion list” of at least 75 police officers from whom her office won’t accept cases and fueled an abominably antagonistic “relationship” with law enforcement, which included a failed lawsuit filed by her against the police union and the City of St. Louis alleging a racist conspiracy to undermine her.
By ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: May 5, 2021 ST. LOUIS A review of the investigation that brought down former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens three years ago uncovered evidence that the prosecutor in charge concealed evidence that could have helped Greitens, the head of the office that oversees lawyers professional conduct alleges. Alan Pratzel, Missouri s chief disciplinary counsel, contends in a court document obtained by the St. Louis Posts-Dispatch that there is probable cause to believe that St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner concealed details about the Greitens investigation from her subordinates regarding notes taken during interviews with witnesses and that she failed to disclose favorable evidence to Greitens lawyers.
Posted By: Hewson Beattie May 6, 2021 @ 12:34 pm Local News, News
ST. LOUIS (AP) The head of the Missouri office that oversees lawyers’ professional conduct alleges that a review of the investigation that brought down former Gov. Eric Greitens three years ago uncovered evidence that the prosecutor in charge concealed evidence that could have helped him.
Alan Pratzel, Missouri’s chief disciplinary counsel, contends in a court document obtained by the St. Louis Posts-Dispatch that there is probable cause to believe that St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner concealed evidence that could have been favorable to Greitens’ lawyers.
The disciplinary case was under seal until Tuesday.