Kim Gardner, the George Soros-backed prosecutor of St. Louis, Missouri, has announced that she is resigning her office as of the first of June.You may remember Gardner for going after Mark and Patricia McCloskey, who protected their home from a mob in 2020 by brandishing guns.She apparently had a history of pulling no-shows, which even ended up forcing a judge to free a killer at one point.Other scandals have piled up over the years.FOX News reports:
Soros-backed prosecutor mired in scandal resigns from officeAn embattled George Soros-bankrolled prosecutor in St. Louis resigned Thursday amid a legal effort by Missouri’s attorney general to fire her for allegedly neglecting her duties…For years, Gardner’s office has faced criticism for mishandling cases and office dysfunction. The final straw for Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey came in February, when a teenage volleyball player visiting St. Louis with her team was struck by a car and lost both of her legs.A man was charged in the crash with assault, armed criminal action and operating a motor vehicle without a valid license. He was out on bond awaiting trial for a separate armed robbery case despite violating the terms of his bond several dozen times.Gardner argued that her office had tried to put the suspect back in jail but that a judge had denied their request. However, there are no court records of her office — which is responsible for monitoring compliance with bond conditions and revoking them when those terms are violated — asking for his bond to be revoked, according to local reports.In the wake of the incident, Bailey filed a petition quo warranto, the legal mechanism under state statute that allows the attorney general to remove a prosecutor who neglects the job’s duties.Bailey claims that nearly 12,000 criminal cases have been dismissed by what he calls Gardner’s failures. He also says more than 9,000 cases have been thrown out as they had been about to go to trial, forcing judges to dismiss more than 2,000 cases due to what Bailey described as a failure to provide defendants with evidence and speedy trials.
Her office tweeted her resignation letter:
Here’s a video report:
John Sexton of Hot Air points out that Gardner is enrolled in a graduate program in nursing, which may explain why she has been so absent in her position:
Before she became St. Louis Circuit Attorney, Kim Gardner was a registered nurse. But it seems she hasn’t given up on that other career path yet, despite having a very demanding full-time job which isn’t going very well right now. It has been confirmed that while working as Circuit Attorney, Garner is also enrolled in a graduate nursing program at St. Louis University.
Yesterday, Attorney General Andrew Bailey issued a subpoena to SLU’s nursing school as part of his ongoing effort to remove Gardner from office.Those subpoenas indicate that Bailey is seeking from the school “[a]ll documents reflecting Kimberly Gardner’s student directory information, course of study, class schedule, and hours worked in clinicals, internships, and practicums (hereinafter collectively referred to as “classes/clinicals”) from January 1, 2021, to the present, in any nursing or medical program at St. Louis University.”The RFT asked a former CAO staff member if they knew Gardner was enrolled in graduate courses in addition to being circuit attorney. This former staffer, who asked to not be named, said, “Sounds about right. That’d explain why she was a mix between generally inaccessible and rarely there.”
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey wants more answers on this:
Last word goes to Mark McCloskey, who seems pretty happy about this news:
Featured image via YouTube.
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