Breitbart: State Rep. Justin Hill filed a resolution in the Missouri House of Representatives on Tuesday calling on the Federal Bureau of Investigation to investigate the “effort to overturn the 2016 election” of former Gov. Eric Greitens.
Fox 2 St. Louis reported:
State Rep. Justin Hill (R-Lake St. Louis) wants to know the source of large cash payments that went to one of the attorneys at the center of an investigation into Greitens.
There was conflicting testimony in 2018 when a House Committee looked into the source of that money. Hill filed House Resolution 5036 asking the US Department of Justice to investigate. Hill said large sums of cash payments are often an indication of illegal activity. Hill believes Missourians should know whether outside forces were trying to disrupt Missouri elections.
“There’s a lot of parties involved internally here in Jefferson City that probably can’t do the due diligence the federal government can,” said Hill.
House Resolution 5036, “Urges the FBI to investigate payments made to attorneys in an effort to overturn the 2016 Missouri governor’s election,” according to the official website of the Missouri House of Representatives. As of Friday, the resolution already has eight co-sponsors, all Republicans, in the Missouri House of Representatives.
The resolution, a copy of which was obtained by Breitbart News, focuses on the source of $120,000 in cash payments made to the attorney for the ex-husband of a woman at the center of the scandal that ended in Greitens’ resignation from office in June 2018 after his election as governor in November 2016, and makes these specific points: read more
Do they have any evidence that a crime may have occurred, have they tried a state wide jurisdiction?