cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/55232

The memos show Gardner received derogatory information early in the investigation from:

Jeff Smith, the head of a Missouri housing trade group that supported low-income housing tax credits that Greitens halted while governor. Al Watkins, the lawyer for Katrina Sneed’s estranged husband Philip Sneed, a radio talk show host in Missouri. The records show that Watkins first approached prosecutors with evidence of the Greitens affair in January 2018, just a few days after his client, Philip Sneed, had received two $50,000 payments from Missouri Times newspaper publisher Scott Faughn and a man identified only in court records as “Skylar.”

The payments, identified in a Missouri Legislature report, have long been a mystery in the Greitens saga.