Boxed-in?
The day after the unsealing of a bombshell indictment of William Don Tisaby on six counts of perjury and one count of evidence tampering, both Tisaby and Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner displayed defiance.
“Mr. Tisaby is looking forward to his day in court,” Tisaby’s defense attorney Jermaine Wooten told the Post-Dispatch. “This case will not be pled.”
Also today, Gardner, who is under a court order not to speak about the continuing grand jury investigation into her office, announced via press release that she has added 22 more SLMPD officers to her office’s “exclusion list.” Setting aside the merits of adding these officers to the exclusion list, how could such an announcement on Gardner’s part not communicate defiance?
But back to Tisaby, who is looking at seven felonies and whose case, Tisaby’s attorney announced, “will not be pled.” Perhaps the case “will not be pled” because the special prosecutor doesn’t need Tisaby to plead. Perhaps it’s someone else in Gardner’s office who has already pled. I have a hunch that it’s Anthony “Tony” Box, Gardner’s chief investigator and the person who connected Tisaby and Gardner with each other. Box was privy to the Greitens investigation from the very beginning. And, the one “smoking gun” in this case so far is an email from Gardner to Tisaby and Box that contained Gardner’s notes of her interview with K.S.
My hunch is that Tisaby and Gardner are Boxed-in. And the message sent via a criminal defense attorney and a press release, respectively, is not so much defiant as it is desperate.
