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Jilly_in_VA

(10,838 posts)
Wed Nov 10, 2021, 01:50 PM Nov 2021

South Dakota House votes to begin 'unprecedented' impeachment probe of AG

South Dakota’s House launched an investigation Tuesday into whether the state’s attorney general should be impeached for his conduct surrounding a car crash last year that killed a pedestrian.

A sizable majority of the Republican-dominated House voted to have a committee prepare a report and recommend whether Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg should be impeached. It could take weeks for the committee of seven Republicans and two Democrats to delve into the crash investigation. The committee is a mix of Ravnsborg’s political allies and those who have called for his ouster.

Ravnsborg, a Republican who was elected to his first term as attorney general in 2018, pleaded no contest in August to a pair of misdemeanors in the crash that killed 55-year-old Joseph Boever, who was walking along a rural stretch of highway when Ravnsborg struck him with his car. Ravnsborg has insisted that he did not realize he killed a man until he returned to the scene the next day and discovered his body.

House lawmakers said they first wanted to know whether Ravnsborg could be impeached for his misdemeanor convictions, the fact that he killed a man, or that law enforcement associations have said they no longer have confidence in his office.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/south-dakota-house-votes-begin-unprecedented-impeachment-probe-ag-rcna5067
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When even your friends are in on it, you are going DOWN!

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South Dakota House votes to begin 'unprecedented' impeachment probe of AG (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Nov 2021 OP
Did not have the good sense to resign. Sneederbunk Nov 2021 #1
Glad to hear this KT2000 Nov 2021 #2
He killed that man and he knew it UpInArms Nov 2021 #3

KT2000

(20,797 posts)
2. Glad to hear this
Wed Nov 10, 2021, 02:03 PM
Nov 2021

he is an entitled ass who should have had enough grace to resign for his lies but he expected his buddies to cover for him.

UpInArms

(51,753 posts)
3. He killed that man and he knew it
Wed Nov 10, 2021, 02:13 PM
Nov 2021
South Dakota attorney general crash victim’s glasses found INSIDE Jason Ravnsborg’s car; interrogation footage shows detectives did not buy his story

As USA Today reports, the South Dakota department of public safety released video of agents from the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation interviewing Ravnsborg on September 30, just over two weeks after the September 12 fatal incident. During the interview, the detectives reveal a damning piece of evidence that casts doubt on Ravnsborg’s claim that he did not realize he had hit a person: Boever’s eye glasses were found inside Ravnsborg’s car.

“His face was in your windshield, Jason. Think about that,” a detective says in the video.

“We know his face came through your windshield.”
Ravnsborg reportedly denied ever seeing the glasses in his car, though he said he did notice broken windshield shards on the front seat when he went into his glove compartment to get the registration after she sheriff arrived. The attorney general insisted that he was not distracted by his phone at the moment of impact.

“Quite frankly, ‘wham’ the incident happened,” Ravnsborg said in the interview, clapping his hands together when he said ‘wham.’

But investigators reportedly accessed cell phone data that suggests Ravnsborg was in fact using his phone around the time of the collision. According to USA Today, the investigators told Jason the data showed that he accessed a Yahoo! email account at 10:20, four minutes before he called 911, and visited another news website about two minutes later.

“So when we look at that, our concern is everything we are seeing here is it’s appearing you were on your phone reading political stuff at the time,” an investigator said. “People make mistakes. We’re thinking you made one.”

Ravnsborg reportedly denied using his cell phone right before the crash, claiming that he last remembers turning off the car radio and checking the speedometer before impact.
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