Multiple media outlets, including the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and St. Louis CBS affiliate KMOV-TV , are reporting that Eric Robert Greitens (last name pronounced GRAY-t · nz , interpunct denotes central vowel sound similar to "a" in "ago"), the Republican Governor of Missouri, committed an extramarital affair before being elected governor and threatened to blackmail the woman that he had a consensual sexual encounter with: Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens and his wife, Sheena Greitens, issued an extraordinary statement late Wednesday acknowledging that he had an extramarital affair in the past and that the couple “has dealt with this together honestly and privately.” [...] (KMOV-TV) played portions of an audio recording that the then-husband says he made in March 2015, surreptitiously, of his then-wife confessing to a sexual encounter with Greitens days earlier. The Post-Dispatch also has possession of the audio, and the newspaper has interviewed the ex-...
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