Missouri Gov's wife says she was cyberstalked by husband of Greitens's mistress

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By John Bowden, The Hill

The wife of Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens (R) told a special committee of state lawmakers that the husband of the woman who claims to have had an affair with Greitens cyberstalked her and contacted her parents.

In a letter to lawmakers obtained by the Washington Examiner, Sheena Greitens alleged that the husband of a hairdresser who says she had an affair with Greitens conducted an "escalating campaign of harassment and spying" against the Greitens family.

"When I didn't respond to his anonymous emails, he sent me a letter," Sheena Greitens says in the letter.

[post_ads]"When a letter to me didn't produce the desired response, he contacted my parents. When letters didn't satisfy him, he made his accusations public on Twitter. And finally, when targeting our family on social media didn't fulfill his agenda, he secretly recorded his wife admitting to the affair and began shopping the audio tape to news outlets."

Greitens was indicted in February for felony invasion of privacy over allegations that he threatened to publicly expose a naked picture of the woman accusing him of an affair if she went public with the claims. Democrats in the state have called for his resignation.

While Greitens's letter to lawmakers was meant to lay out claims of cyberstalking against the woman's husband, she also took swipes at some of the claims made by the unnamed woman and her husband.

"Mr. S claimed that my husband was with his ex-wife, and hit her, while I was in the hospital giving birth," Sheena Greitens adds in the letter. "Nothing like that ever happened - and both Mr. S and his ex-wife know it. I know, because Eric was with me during the birth of both of our children."

The Examiner reports that Greitens's has remained defiant and vowed to "fight" his accusers in a call with campaign donors in February. The governor is up for reelection in 2020.

"I want to let you know that we're going to fight this. We're going to win," Greitens said in March, during a conference call. "We're going to win and we will emerge stronger because of it."