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Legal experts: Greitens not entitled to charity donor list

Legal experts: Greitens not entitled to charity donor list | iNFOnews.ca
FILE - In this April 11, 2018 file photo, Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens speaks at a news conference in Jefferson City, Mo. A judge is expected to consider a request to disqualify St. Louis prosecutors from one of the two felony cases against Gov. Greitens. A hearing is scheduled for Tuesday, April 24, 2018 in the computer data tampering case against Greitens. Defense lawyers asked Judge Rex Burlison to require a special prosecutor in the computer tampering case, citing the use of a private investigator in the other felony case against Greitens. (J.B. Forbes/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP, File)

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Legal experts say Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens was not entitled to use a donor list from a veterans’ charity he founded to raise money for his political campaign.

Greitens is facing a felony charge of tampering with computer data for allegedly disclosing a donor list of The Mission Continues to his campaign without the charity’s permission. His attorney has released a statement seeming to suggest that Greitens was entitled to it because he had personally built the donor list.

But several non-profit law experts told The Associated Press that a charity’s donor list is a valuable asset that cannot be used for other purposes without permission of the non-profit.

A spokeswoman for The Mission Continues says it did not provide or authorize any political campaign to use the list.

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