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Jeremy Kohler
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Investigative reporter for @Propublica.org covering Missouri and the Midwest. You have got to show me. Call/Text/Signal: 708-967-5731
My dog had this beat by an hour
June 4, 2025 at 7:52 PM
St. Louis severe weather early warning system
June 4, 2025 at 7:13 PM
11/ Martin did not respond to requests for comment. Asked about the emails in a deposition, Martin declined to talk about them, but did acknowledge that lawyers are prohibited from communicating with judges outside of court or engaging in conduct intended to disrupt the court.
April 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
9/ The judge had blocked her on Facebook, Gray wrote back. But that wasn’t going to stop her. She said she would still try to make sure the judge saw Martin’s ghostwritten messages by “private messaging him that sweet line.”
April 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
8/ Martin coached Gray on how to attack the Judge:

“Go slow and steady. Not too much of a flood. Make it organic.”

He wanted her to email the judge’s comments to others and to send the judge direct messages playing “sweet/dumb.”
April 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
7/ Martin wanted Gray to “turn up the heat” with others on the judge’s Facebook page and to “call what he did unfair and rigged over and over.”

Gray responded that she was “on it.”
April 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
6/ But as it turns out, after Martin bought a laptop for Gray, she offered to “happily write something to attack this judge.” And when she did, Martin ghostwrote more posts for her to use.
April 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
4/ The attacks on Barberis appeared on his personal Facebook page. They impugned his ethics, criticized a recent ruling and branded him as a "politician" with the “LOWEST rating for a judge in Illinois.”

They were posted by someone named Priscilla Gray.
April 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The tree is up.
December 14, 2024 at 2:33 AM