ST. LOUIS _ Prosecutors have obtained and turned over the grand jury testimony of Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens' former lover, as well as one month of his phone records, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch has learned.
Documents listing evidence that has been turned over to defense lawyers were filed late Friday and Monday.
The letters say that the defense team now has 131 pages of grand jury transcripts of the former lover and a friend, according to a source close to the investigation, as well as transcripts of testimony from the woman's ex-husband and his lawyer, Al Watkins.
Watkins has already confirmed publicly that he and his client were subpoenaed by the grand jury. Last week, he said he and his client spoke with a legislative panel investigating Greitens.
He declined to comment Monday on matters involving the grand jury.
The defense has also received the last known addresses of the lover, her ex-husband and other witnesses, and 18 pages of Verizon phone records for Greitens from March 2015, the source said.
Also turned over were photos of the St. Louis home Greitens and his family occupied at the time.
Greitens was indicted last month on an invasion of privacy charge that claimed Greitens took a nude picture of his former lover without her consent and threatened to release it if she ever mentioned his name.
Greitens admitted the affair but denied blackmail. The accusations have also spawned a legislative inquiry.
While the St. Louis-based Dowd Bennett law firm continues to represent Greitens in the criminal case, it said Monday it is no longer serving as the governor's counsel in a civil case involving the use of the Confide text-destroying cellphone app. The firm had been representing Greitens on a pro bono basis.
The change in the Confide lawsuit came after Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley issued a report saying that Greitens and his staff did not violate state records laws while using the secretive app.
Employees in the office admitted using the app but said they didn't send any documents that needed to be saved under the state's open records laws.
In a statement, Greitens spokesman Parker Briden said: "Now that the attorney general has concluded that the governor's office follows state Sunshine and records retention laws, Dowd Bennett has withdrawn from the matter."
The governor's office has retained the Bryan Cave law firm to handle the remainder of the litigation.
