In Brief

• Former Missouri election integrity director Nicholas La Strada filed a whistleblower lawsuit against Secretary of State Denny Hoskins and his office.
• La Strada alleges he was fired in retaliation after reporting alleged illegal and unethical conduct, including misuse of public funds and election-related actions.
• The lawsuit was filed under Missouri Revised Statutes Section 105.055, which provides protections for public employees who report certain misconduct. Missouri Revisor of Statutes
• The case comes as Hoskins faces other election-related litigation, including disputes involving Missouri redistricting and federal and state court orders.

Attorneys for Missouri’s former director of election integrity filed a whistleblower lawsuit on Sept. 14 after the director was fired from his position by Secretary of State Denny Hoskins, adding to a slew of legal woes facing the office.

The former director, Nicholas La Strada, is represented by Kevin Baldwin, Erin Vernon, Sylvia Hernandez and Emma Wilson with Baldwin & Vernon Trial Attorneys and Dennis Egan of the Popham Law Firm. A press conference was held on Monday to announce the lawsuit, but La Strada himself was not present at the event as he is currently overseas serving as a U.S. long-term election observer in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The whistleblower lawsuit was filed under Section 105.055, RSMo against Hoskins and the Office of the Missouri Secretary of State.

La Strada, a Republican Hoskins appointed, was...

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