An aide to 最新杏吧原创 Circuit Attorney Kimberly M. Gardner holds back a media question as Gardner finishes answering another at a news conference outside her office on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023.
ST. LOUIS 鈥 The city鈥檚 former top prosecutor spent the equivalent of nearly seven weeks working on a nursing degree 鈥 during business hours 鈥 while the 最新杏吧原创 Circuit Attorney鈥檚 Office crumbled around her, according to a long-awaited state audit released Tuesday.
Missouri State Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick listens to a question during the release of the audit of former Circuit Attorney Kimberly M. Gardner鈥檚 office, at the Wainwright State Office Building in 最新杏吧原创 on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025.
Defense attorney Terry Neihoff buries his face in his hands as he and T.J. Mathes await a prosecutor to argue a motion to dismiss two murder charges against two defendants in Judge Michael Noble's courtroom in the Carnahan Courthouse on Monday, May 1, 2023. The prosecutor, who was filling in for another prosecutor who resigned that morning, was running 20 minutes late from being in other courtrooms.
A hearing is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. in the quo warranto case that Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed against 最新杏吧原创 Circuit Attorney Kimberly M. Gardner. Pool video via KSDK
最新杏吧原创 Circuit Attorney Kimberly M. Gardner thanks her staff on May 4, 2023 for their hard work when she told them she was resigning as of June 1. Audio obtained by Taylor Tiamoyo Harris
Gardner's lawyers say the disciplinary charges are yet another attack on the woman who served as the city's first Black female prosecutor.
An aide to 最新杏吧原创 Circuit Attorney Kimberly M. Gardner holds back a media question as Gardner finishes answering another at a news conference outside her office on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023.
Missouri State Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick listens to a question during the release of the audit of former Circuit Attorney Kimberly M. Gardner鈥檚 office, at the Wainwright State Office Building in 最新杏吧原创 on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025.
Defense attorney Terry Neihoff buries his face in his hands as he and T.J. Mathes await a prosecutor to argue a motion to dismiss two murder charges against two defendants in Judge Michael Noble's courtroom in the Carnahan Courthouse on Monday, May 1, 2023. The prosecutor, who was filling in for another prosecutor who resigned that morning, was running 20 minutes late from being in other courtrooms.
