Source: newsfromthestates.com 8/9/24
TOPEKA — The Kansas Attorney General’s Office charged a rural Kansas prosecutor with two financial misdemeanors, but not alleged sexual extortion or other felonies that local and state law enforcement investigated.
A complaint filed Thursday in state court accuses Neosho County Attorney Linus Thuston of violating the Retailers’ Sales Tax Act in 2021 and misuse of public funds in 2019. Thuston has been the county attorney, an elected position, since 2012.
Thuston didn’t respond to a request for comment for this story.
Neosho County Sheriff Greg Taylor said he was disappointed that only two minor charges were filed against Thuston. The sheriff has investigated a dozen cases involving alleged felony crimes — including a case in which the sheriff said about 50 women provided nude photos to Thuston at his request in exchange for legal representation in his private practice. The sheriff considered the activity to be sexual extortion, and he said the Kansas Bureau of Investigation had reviewed the evidence.
Rules for thee, but not for me…..makes one wonder, how many prosecutors have skeletons in their own closets of the same exact nature as those they are throwing the book at and placing on the registry for life. Ruining lives for the exact activities they themselves engage in with impunity.
Go to the state bar for disbarment actions over this ethically challenged person’s actions.
If you want to sexually extort women and not be punished, be a LE employee or be in an elected position.
Guessing the KS AG is on the take as well. I say the feds ought to check them both out.