Top prosecutor booted over affair with illegal migrant her office was probing and two other illicit flings: Mo. AG
A top Missouri prosecutor was booted for having an affair with an illegal migrant her office was probing for sex assault — and because she slept with two other men in glaring conflicts of interest, too, court papers allege.Disgraced Ray County Prosecutor Camille Johnston was yanked from her position Thursday when a judge signed off on Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway’s petition laying out a slew of misconduct allegations against her during her three and a half years in office, Hanaway announced.Johnston — an elected official who took office Jan.1, 2023 — compromised the integrity of her office for three men she had affairs with, Hanaway alleged.In the most egregious case, Johnston helped her former live-in boyfriend — a Mexican national who had been in the US illegally since 2019 — go on the lam to evade arrest on sexual-assault allegations that same year, according to court papers filed by Hanaway.It’s unclear when the pair may have stopped dating, but Johnston not only failed to disqualify herself from the ensuing investigation of her ex-beau — who the court papers refer to as J.G.
— but she helped him elude the law by driving to Mississippi, where he was hiding, in 2023 and giving him her car, along with the vehicle’s title, the filing alleges.Johnston also went on a vacation with J.G.in Florida, the documents claim.The prosecutor had been dating J.G.
at the time he allegedly attacked the other woman, according to local outlet KSHB.Johnston has claimed in court papers that she did not find out about the sexual-assault allegation against J.G.
until after they stopped seeing each other.J.G.was finally busted in Ohio in 2024, and he’s awaiting trial for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman.Johnston kept her relationship with J.G.
“from the victim, law enforcement, her office personnel and all others, and failed to bring any criminal charges because of her relationship with J.G.,” the court papers claim.She was eventually for...