Update: Daily RFT confirms that the Show-Me Institute is closing its Columbia office. Crosby Kemper III says the closing isn't related to the grand-jury probe. Speaking of probes (or, one hopes, not), Kemper tells the RFT this about the investigation: "Let's just say a lot of things were
happening that don't usually occur at a think tank."
The news blog at The Pitch's sister paper in St. Louis, Riverfront Times, reports that a grand jury is investigating a financial problem at the Show-Me Institute, the libertarian think tank founded by St. Louis gazillionaire Rex Sinquefield.
Daily RFT's Chad Garrison writes:
Crosby Kemper III, chairman of the think tank, acknowledges that the Show-Me Institute isKemper has been working the phones in recent days. Besides answering the RFT's questions, in an interview published today he told The Pitch that his being chairman of Show-Me has nothing to do with petitions for Sinquefield's ballot initiative to repeal the earnings tax showing up in library lobbies. (Kemper is director of the Kansas City Public Library.)suffering a "substantial misuse of funds" that he categorizes as
"almost certainly fraud."
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