ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. — The feds have indicted another St. Louis County employee in a corruption scheme, just the latest to hit the government.
A plea agreement unsealed this month by federal prosecutors in St. Louis said that Monique Campbell, a Health Department employee in the county, in 2019 approached the owner of Mally's Supermarket, 7445 W. Florissant Ave., falsely claiming to be a health inspector. Campbell, the agreement claimed, said that she'd observed liquor sales to minors and single sales of cigarettes at Mally's and would shut down the store unless the owner paid her money.
The owner, it said, contacted the FBI about the solicitation for a bribe, and arrangements were made for a video recording of a subsequent meeting between Campbell and the owner. The FBI provided the owner with money to pay Campbell, it said. The owner eventually paid her $2,000, according to the feds.