I assumed there had to be some component of this scam where the pizza purchases were converted into money but the article indicates he just... ordered a lot of pizza.
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A St. Louis judge has issued an arrest warrant for presidential candidate Jill Stein after she was in a no-show in court this morning. @ryankrull.bsky.social has the story for @stlmag.bsky.social www.stlmag.com/news/jill-st...
St. Louis judge issues warrant for Jill Stein’s arrest
Perennial Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein faces an arrest warrant in Missouri after neither she nor her attorney appeared at a hearing Monday morning related to misdemeanor charges for t...
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Billionaire David Hoffmann will be the focus of a "centerpiece" in Sunday's St. Louis Post-Dispatch -- and the union repping its employees is not happy www.stlmag.com/news/post-di...
Post-Dispatch plans to celebrate owner David Hoffmann in front-page Sunday story
This Sunday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch plans to publish a front-page profile of a man with local ties making things happen. “NEW HOPE FOR LOCAL NEWS” the headline reads. Right under it: A photo of ...
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Kind of fascinating to see who showed up to speak against the actions of Police Board governing St. Louis police -- from the libertarian Show-Me Institute to progressives to "that Jesus Guy." @ryankrull.bsky.social has the detail www.stlmag.com/news/police-...
Police Board gets an earful from St. Louis residents
The state-appointed Board of Police Commissioners invited the public to attend its Wednesday meeting to share their thoughts. The people who showed up were all of one mind. They didn’t particularly li...
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The St. Louis Police Board agrees to pause action on double-digit raises—but only for two weeks. @ryankrull.bsky.social has the details on a rare Police Board win for Mayor Cara Spencer www.stlmag.com/news/police-...
Police Board agrees to pause action on double-digit raises—but only for two weeks
Mayor Cara Spencer won a rare—and minor—consession from the rest of the Board of Police Commissioners this morning when they voted to postpone a vote on double-digit raises for command staff. Those pr...
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A win for City Hall in ongoing battle with the Police Board www.stlmag.com/news/police-...
Police Board can’t grab Rams funds, city’s reserves, judge rules
St. Louis city leaders got a win in court today in their ongoing battle with the state-appointed Board of Police Commissioners. Judge Joan Moriarty denied the board’s request that $67.5 million be add...
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Breaking news from me and @ryankrull.bsky.social: Judge Joan Moriarty has ruled against the state-run Police Board in its effort to take 22 percent of Rams settlement funds + the city's reserves www.stlmag.com/news/police-...
Police Board can’t grab Rams funds, city’s reserves, judge rules
St. Louis city leaders got a win in court today in their ongoing battle with the state-appointed Board of Police Commissioners. Judge Joan Moriarty denied the board’s request that $67.5 million be add...
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A wild Wednesday in the ongoing battle between City Hall and the Police Board www.stlmag.com/news/police-...
Police Board blows off aldermen, fast-tracks drone approval
It was a wild Wednesday in the ongoing battle between St. Louis city leaders and the state-appointed Board of Police Commissioners, with the board approving a drone program over the mayor’s strenuous ...
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Further proof, as if it were needed, that government in the County is just as if not more dysfunctional than in the City. www.stlmag.com/news/health-...
Obscure health board becomes latest St. Louis County battleground
Even the obscure St. Louis County board overseeing federally-qualified health clinics is not immune from the increasingly bitter infighting that has marked county politics of late. From the feud betwe...
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STL aldermen likely to subpoena Police Board over budget www.stlmag.com/news/alderme...
Aldermen plan subpoena after Police Board skips the Budget Committee
A few weeks after refusing to appear before an aldermanic budget committee, the Board of Police Commissioners appears likely to get hit with a subpoena forcing them to show up. The aldermanic Budget C...
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"Therefore, we were going to ride the one in the Loop. It would be disrespectful to Joe Edwards’ hubris and the finer points of federal transit dollar clawbacks to do anything else." This story + headline <3 @ryankrull.bsky.social
The Loop trolley is going nowhere slow, but for toddlers, that’s A-OK
This past weekend marked the return of the Loop Trolley, a means of conveyance that prior to this Saturday I knew only by its reputation as a boondoggle and by the one time many years ago when I fell ...
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An off-duty St. Louis Metropolitan Police officer has been charged with shooting a man in Jennings. @ryankrull.bsky.social has the scoop for @stlmag.bsky.social www.stlmag.com/news/richard...
Off-duty St. Louis police officer shot man on his front porch
St. Louis County prosecutors filed felony assault charges this morning against a St. Louis city police officer, alleging he shot a man multiple times at that person’s home in Jennings. Richard Booker ...
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A shoplifting charge had gotten onto Namegni’s record, despite never being charged with such crime. The misattributed charge has since been removed from her record, but it doesn’t seem to matter. She’s stuck in the Phelps County jail. (via @ryankrull.bsky.social @stlmag.bsky.social)
African immigrant faces deportation to country she’s never been over court's mistake
Seven years after arriving in the United States, 30-year-old Armande Rhea Namegni had made herself into a pillar of her O’Fallon, Missouri, community. She worked as a computer programer, moonlighted a...
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Remember Banjo Popoola, the former St. Louis building inspector? He's now been hit with a federal indictment charging him with steering contracts to firms he controlled-- ties first exposed by @stlmag.bsky.social www.stlmag.com/news/banjo-p...
Former St. Louis building inspector charged with steering city contracts to firms he controlled
A former St. Louis city building inspector was indicted Wednesday on three counts of wire fraud for allegedly funneling city construction contracts to companies set up at his direction by his sister a...
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“Barker, a 33-year-old retired Army captain, stands accused of running his real estate operation like a Ponzi scheme. He is also currently in federal custody on an unrelated matter” (“attempted online enticement of a minor as well as distribution of child pornography”) www.stlmag.com/news/red-doo...
Rehabbers whose ugly houses angered St. Louis are accused of running a Ponzi scheme
For a while now, St. Louisans have been asking questions about homes belonging to the Kentucky-based rehabbers Lighthouse Estates and Red Door Legacy. What’s up with the painted brick? Why are the win...
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The Police Board has upped their ask to $333M, mayor says in a letter. By @sarahfenske.bsky.social and me www.stlmag.com/news/police-...
Police Board budget demand goes from ‘crippling’ to ‘catastrophic,’ mayor says
Last week, Mayor Cara Spencer had a disagreement with the rest of the Board of Police Commissioners, to the tune of as much as $72 million. But since then, the parties have only gotten further apart. ...
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Civilian oversight of police is going to look a lot different, and likely be greatly diminished, in this new era of state control www.stlmag.com/news/st-loui...
State Police Board seeks to limit civilian oversight of officer misconduct in St. Louis
With the new state-appointed board now running the city’s police department, civilian review of complaints against St. Louis officers could potentially be on its way out—as the State Board’s lawyer su...
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Update to @ryankrull.bsky.social's story yesterday about St. Louis Treasurer Adam Layne failing to enforce parking violations by booting cars: Layne has voided 8 of his own tickets, plus fees www.stlmag.com/news/st-loui...
St. Louis treasurer voided his own parking tickets
In the past three years, the man who controls parking in the City of St. Louis has forgiven eight of his own parking tickets. Parking in the city is the domain of the Treasurer’s Office, an entity th...
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The latest chapter in the Kim Gardner saga includes a TV judge. www.stlmag.com/news/discipl...
Disciplinary hearing for former circuit attorney offers low stakes, high intrigue
At a Clayton courthouse yesterday it was as if a game of legal musical chairs had gone off the rails: a former circuit attorney sitting at the equivalent of the defendant’s table, a federal prosecutor...
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The disciplinary hearing for former St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner offered low stakes, high intrigue. @ryankrull.bsky.social reports on the drama in the courtroom today www.stlmag.com/news/discipl...
Disciplinary hearing for former circuit attorney offers low stakes, high intrigue
At a Clayton courthouse yesterday it was as if a game of legal musical chairs had gone off the rails: a former circuit attorney sitting at the equivalent of the defendant’s table, a federal prosecutor...
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Homeless “sweeps” are a nightly ritual at Lambert www.stlmag.com/news/st-loui...
For St. Louis airport, homeless “sweeps” are a nightly ritual
A fatal shooting last week at St. Louis Lambert International Airport has put a bright light on the persistent issue of homelessness at the airport, with a source familiar with its operations telling ...
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For the St. Louis airport, "sweeps" moving along homeless visitors are a nightly ritual -- and may have been a factor in last week's fatal shooting. @ryankrull.bsky.social has the story www.stlmag.com/news/st-loui...
For St. Louis airport, homeless “sweeps” are a nightly ritual
A fatal shooting last week at St. Louis Lambert International Airport has put a bright light on the persistent issue of homelessness at the airport, with a source familiar with its operations telling ...
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Could good news for a West Lake clean up be on the horizon? www.stlmag.com/news/latty-a...
Could Latty Avenue settlement provide a roap map for West Lake’s cleanup?
Earlier this year, the Army Corps of Engineers reached an agreement with Cotter Corporation and Norfolk Southern Railway Company wherein those two companies and the federal government would pay a comb...
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Day one of Sheriff Alfred Montgomery’s trial was variously described as “torture” and “Groundhog Day.” www.stlmag.com/news/alfred-...
For those familiar with sheriff’s many scandals, trial feels like ‘Groundhog Day’
The trial to remove St. Louis Sheriff Alfred Montgomery got off to an exciting enough start. The sheriff entered the courtroom handcuffed and looking haggard, wearing a charcoal suit less flashy than ...
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A St. Charles County judge has been forced to retire after dressing like Elvis Presley in his courtroom ... and also talking politics with litigants before him. Via @stlmag.bsky.social www.stlmag.com/news/matthew...
Elvis-loving St. Charles County judge forced to retire after dressing like his idol
A St. Charles County judge who traded his black robes for an Elvis jumpsuit is being forced into retirement—and his mania for The King is partly to blame. Disciplinary charges accuse Judge Matthew Tho...
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Will Sheriff Alfred Montgomery be able to attend his own quo warranto trial? Still an open question. One of his attorneys says, "We don't know yet." Trial starts in one minute.
Anheuser family heirs hit with $56 million jury verdict, with the son of former Gov. Jay Nixon taking the lead in representing disgruntled investors in their suit over “a company built by many, stolen by few.” @ryankrull.bsky.social has the scoop www.stlmag.com/business/anh...
Anheuser family heirs hit with $56M verdict over Kirkwood energy company
Two descendants of a co-founder of Anheuser-Busch and their family trusts were part of a group ordered on Friday to pay tens of millions of dollars to a company whose investors they allegedly swindled...
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It was Anheuser heirs versus a former governor’s son in a trial that played out in secrecy www.stlmag.com/business/anh...
Anheuser family heirs hit with $56M verdict over Kirkwood energy company
Two descendants of a co-founder of Anheuser-Busch and their family trusts were part of a group ordered on Friday to pay tens of millions of dollars to a company whose investors they allegedly swindled...
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