Missouri Governor Taken Into Custody On "Revenge Porn" Allegations

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Republican Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens has been taken into custody after being indicted on charges of felony invasion of privacy.

St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly M. Gardner's office announced today that a grand jury found probable cause to believe Greitens violated a Missouri statute that makes it a felony if a person transmits the image contained in the photograph or film in a manner that allows access to that image via a computer.

From The St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

On Jan. 10, the Post-Dispatch and other area media reported that Greitens, a first-term Republican elected in 2016, had had an extramarital affair near the start of that campaign, in 2015.

The allegation was put forward by the husband of Greitens' lover, based on a surreptitious audio recording he made of a conversation with her.

The woman said in the recording that, during a consensual sexual encounter in Greitens' St. Louis home in which she was bound and partly undressed, Greitens took a photo of her without her consent and threatened her with it.

A former Navy Seal, Greitens won his 2016 election in part by campaigning against “corrupt career politicians.”

Some Republican lawmakers have called for Greitens resignation.

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