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How the Leading Republican Candidate for Missouri Senate Seat Lost Koch Support

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Eric Greitens, a former Navy SEAL and founder of a successful veterans charity, was a rising star in the GOP. But he fell from grace after facing investigations into two distinct crimes that he allegedly committed before becoming governor. He was accused of stealing a donor list from his veterans charity in 2015 as well as taking a nonconsensual, semi-nude photograph of a woman while she was restrained in his basement. He ultimately resigned in May 2018 after making a deal with a local prosecutor to dismiss a felony charge.

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How the Leading Republican Candidate for Missouri Senate Seat Lost Koch Support

When hundreds of billionaire Charles Koch’s allies gathered for an elite summit at a luxury Colorado Springs, Colorado, resort in June 2017, one of the few Republican governors invited to court the high-net donors was a rising star from Missouri: Eric Greitens. A friend of then-Vice President Mike Pence, the new governor had proved himself as a champion of the national anti-union drive, signing a “right-to-work” law earlier in the year that Koch…

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The Intercept broke the news in New York, United States on Friday, January 21, 2022.
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