Local personal-injury attorney Mark McCloskey received an expected pardon from Missouri Governor Mike Pardon this week, after an earlier guilty plea in a 2020 gun-waving incident outside their Central West End estate.
That pardon drew the ire of Congresswoman Cori Bush appearing on CNN this week, "Mark McCloskey is an absolute liar," she said. "He has spat on my name. And because of that, his day will come. You will not be successful in all that you're trying to do, when you are hurting the very people that are out trying to save lives … He can try it, but I will not stand by and allow him or our governor to hurt the very people that are doing the work that they should be doing."
"I couldn't really figure it out, but she said it very sincerely," McCloskey told Marc Cox. "I think she's just grumpy from having to sleep on those steps."