THE mugshot taken of Eric Greitens after he was taken into custody on February 22nd is not flattering. The generally photogenic Republican governor of Missouri looks drawn,his jaw grimly set. A grand jury in St Louis had just indicted him on a charge of invasion of privacy. If convicted of the felony of which he is accused, the governor will almost certainly lose his job.
The indictment relates to an extramarital affair that Mr Greitens had in 2015 with a hairdresser in St Louis. The married father of two boys admits to the affair, and but firmly rejects an allegation that he threatened to blackmail his lover by taking a compromising photograph of her while she was blindfolded in his basement. The indictment states otherwise. “The defendant knowingly photographed [the victim] in a state of full or partial nudity without the knowledge and consent of [the victim] and in a state where a person would contain a fair expectation of privacy,” says the indictment. “The defendant subsequently transmitted the image contained in the photograph in a...
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Source: economist.com