JEFFERSON CITY — A Cole County judge on Wednesday ordered the Missouri attorney general's office to pay $242,000 in legal fees in connection to Sunshine Law violations under current U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley.
The decision by Circuit Judge Jon Beetem follows his November 2022 ruling that Hawley's attorney general's office withheld documents from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee during his campaign for the U.S. Senate in 2018 in violation of the state's open records laws.
Beetem, in his decision last year, fined the attorney general's office $12,000 and ordered the state to pay attorneys' fees and costs.
