The Associated Press
IOWA CITY Prosecutors dropped a misconduct charge against a Des Moines police officer accused of interfering with an investigation into a fellow officer who is his girlfriend, saying Wednesday that the evidence showed he didn’t commit a crime.
Des Moines Police Officer Rodney Briggs had been charged with non-felonious misconduct in office and placed on administrative leave in February. A criminal complaint alleged that he used his police identification to try to obtain video from a school district of an unspecified incident involving his girlfriend that police in the Des Moines suburb of Altoona were investigating.
Lawsuit âpierces corporate veilâ of John Krohnâs investment companies
Spotlight Innovation lawsuit among numerous complaints against former Principal investment broker Monday, May 3, 2021 12:24 PM Spotlight Innovation, a startup pharmaceutical technology investment firm controlled by two Iowa businessmen along with several other enterprises launched by the partners over the past several years is part of a “mere sham” being used to defraud investors in those companies, a former business associate alleges in a lawsuit in Polk County District Court.
The company’s former chief financial officer, John William “Bill” Pim, is suing John Krohn and Michael Kemery, who were officers and directors of Spotlight Innovation and another company, Gooi Global. Pim had worked for Krohn and Kemery for less than a year as chief financial officer of Spotlight Innovation and as an independent contractor with Gooi Global. Spotlight was based in