A perjury charge against Shawnee Mayor Michelle Distler appears to center around an email chain with multiple city councilmembers that could have violated state open meetings laws. Distler allegedly submitted a complaint under someone else’s name to the Kansas Attorney General’s Office. Her complaint pertains to an email chain from early March that includes her, four Shawnee city councilmembers, a handful of vocal Shawnee residents and former State Sen. Mary Pilcher-Cook, among others. File photo.
A felony perjury charge against Shawnee Mayor Michelle Distler appears to center around an email chain from last March that Distler said could have violated Kansas open meetings laws because it included multiple city councilmembers commenting on council business.
Emails reveal what was discussed in Shawnee mayor case. Did it violate Kansas law? Steve Vockrodt, The Kansas City Star
Dec. 24 An email chain that ultimately led to a perjury charge against Shawnee Mayor Michelle Distler started with an activist who was upset about her refusal to break a tie for the city council president.
Mike Egan, a former Shawnee resident who now lives in Missouri s Ozarks but still uses email to regularly chime in on Shawnee civic affairs, sent a March 5 email to Distler, four council members and others who keep tabs on City Hall.
Egan s email, obtained by The Star through a Kansas Open Records Act request, blasted Distler for not breaking a 4-4 tie to choose a council president in January. Distler said at the time that she didn t want to insert herself in the vote, fearing it would make the Council appear even more divisive.
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Bloomberg News, Ghada Oueiss claims that Mohammed Bin Salman Bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia and Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the U.A.E. recruited Florida-based U.S. citizens to hack the phone, in retaliation for her reporting on human rights abuses.
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The latest in an occasional
AppleInsider series, looking at the world of Apple-related crime.
Journalist s lawsuit accuses Saudi, U.A.E. princes of ordering a hack of her iPhone
An anchor for
Al Jazeera has filed a lawsuit in federal court accusing the crown princes of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates of carrying out the hacking of her iPhone, and the dissemination of doctored photos of her.
Who steps in if Johnson County mayor, facing felony charge, leaves? Coin toss decides Sarah Ritter, The Kansas City Star
Dec. 15 A coin toss has determined who would take over as the mayor of Shawnee if Michelle Distler who is facing a felony perjury charge were to leave her post.
Each year, the City Council is tasked with appointing a council president, who becomes acting mayor in case of the mayor s absence or removal from office. That task is especially important this time with Distler s future in question due to her recent arrest, although the mayor has not said that she plans to resign.