The second report

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“…Laub did not contribute the list to the campaign. Instead, it was contributed by Greitens himself through his directions to Proctor…”

Ladies and gentlemen, Eric Greitens (r), the Governor of Missouri:

Eric Greitens (r) [2016 file photo].

Today the Missouri House Special Investigative Committee on Oversight issued their second report, on campaign finance law violation(s), in the investigation of Missouri Governor Eric Greitens (r). All seven members of the committee, five Republicans and two Democrats, signed the report dated April 24, 2018. Remember that date.

An excerpt:

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90. Laub testified that Austin Chambers called him on April 24, 2017.136 After exchanging pleasantries, Laub described their conversation:

And then Austin says to me, “I don’t know if you know this, but there’s a bullshit ethics complaint filed against us by the Democrat party about this Mission Continues donor list.” And he said, “I need someone who was on the campaign at the time, because I wasn’t, to put their name down so we can get this bullshit complaint dismissed. We will pay” – assuming him and the campaign – “will pay the fine, but we need to put someone’s name down who was on the campaign at the time, and I was not.” And he said, “Can we put your name down?”137

91. Laub testified that he told Chambers the Greitens campaign could “put [his] name down,” which he “assumed … meant that [he] was the manager of the campaign at the time or in charge of the campaign at the time.”138 Laub learned a week later that “putting his name down” as the donor of the TMC list “was not what I thought I told Austin on the phone he could use my name for.”139 Instead, Laub testified that he had been “affirmatively misled” by Chambers.140

92. Laub testified that if Chambers had not misled him that he “would never have agreed for it to be perceived or otherwise that I in-kinded a list that I did not in-kind.”141 Laub testified he would have never authorized Chambers to use his name as someone who donated the list “because that’s untrue.”142 Further, Laub testified that the TMC list was not donated to the campaign on March 1, 2015.143 Instead, he testified that nothing happened with the TMC list on that date.

93. Laub agreed that Greitens’ amended campaign finance report regarding the TMC list as an in-kind contribution was “false in every particular.”144 Laub further testified that everything of substance in the settlement agreement between Greitens and the MEC was untrue.145

a. Laub did not contribute the list to the campaign. Instead, it was contributed by Greitens himself through his directions to Proctor.146

b. The list was not donated to the campaign on March 1. Instead, its first use that Laub could remember was in December 2015, and the email records show its disclosure and use on January 6 and January 7.147

94. Laub stated that the “whole document made [him] sick … because it was misrepresented [and] because [he] was in a round of news stories falsely portraying what happened.”148

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It’s never the act, it’s always the cover up.

A little over a year ago: