When the System Is Corrupt Beyond Comprehension and Turns Against You —

My Fight for Justice, Truth, and My Children

 

 

I assure you that I am cool, calm and collected. I am, of course, stressed but - everything about my story is true. I have made sure that I have evidence to support every claim wherever possible. I will be unveiling that as well.

 

My situation is both amazingly unique but not at all unusual at the same time. I am a parent that has been failed by the Missouri Court system. I just so happen to also be a lawyer. 

 

I am not just any lawyer, I have been lucky to be recognized as of the best in Missouri.  I say that with humility but also so that you take me seriously.

 

I was a senior equity partner at one of the country´s 100 largest law firms - Husch Blackwell LLP.  An equity partner in an AM Law 100 law firm.  For lawyers, that is a big deal.   

 

It gives me the instant credibility that corruption fears.

 

I wasn´t a lawyer there for a short while, I spent 22 or so years of my career there.  I was a big deal.  I personally represent a Fortune 200 company at this moment.  Me, just me with the assistance of my partners at my current law firm from which I must now take a brief professional leave of absence to focus on this corruption. 

 

I have been lucky and I have saved money. 

 

My current firm, my partners and their clients did not choose this fight.  They deserve to remain immune from any blowback of my exposing sitting judges for being corrupt.  It is the right thing to do.  To step aside and fight this battle by myself.  

 

I did not choose to fight this alone.  My former attorneys in my case were and are part of the corruption. 

 

One - Mat Eilerts - was my law partner at Husch Blackwell and I thought we were friends.  The other - C. Curran Coulter - was someone trusted by Mat Eilerts so I naively agreed to hire him as well. Both of these lawyers failed me and moved to withdraw after I filed my first Motion exposing corruption within the St. Louis County Family Court.

 

 

I am targeting corruption in the St. Louis County Courthouse but I know that the individuals involved go far beyond that.  Many are a part of the Republican-machine and most are very powerful.  You will see the names I volunteer in my pleadings. 

 

Attacking Republican judges and powerbrokers in the Red State of Missouri is no easy task.   

 

I reached out to the most notable lawyers in the St. Louis Metro area, including well-known democratic supporters.  None will touch this case.  None wants to join this worthy battle. 

 

All recognize that my claims are true, but it is professional suicide for anyone that pursues this fight.  Just like me, anyone else that represents me may never be able to safely practice law in any Missouri court again.

 

I spoke on several occassions with a sitting democrat Circuit Court Judge across the river in IL, just a few short miles from downtown St. Louis.  I highly respect that judge and he told me what others have as well.  Not even the most fearless of democrat lawyers will take on this fight with me.  It is simply asking too much.  I understand, I do.

 

Because I am a lawyer, and lawyer who sat in rooms that very few will ever know existed, I know the real system.  My former firm represented former Governor Greitens while he departed the Governor's mansion.  I stood next to firm client Stan Kroenke on 9th floor in our Clayton offices.  I know what the connected and powerful do.  I am not citing the prior two individuals by that statement as having any improper involvement in anything.  I am providing objective proof that I know how the game is played at the highest levels.  

 

Unlike others in my profession, I kept my oath and I have the strongest of ethics.  I will not yield to the pressures of power or money.  I live a fine life with my wife, 2 children and 3 step-children. 

 

I am a public school kid that went to Francis Howell in St. Charles.  I was the first four-year college graduate in my immediate family.  I went to what is now Truman State University.  My late mother worked to pay for that education.  I qualified for scholarships and borrowed money to attend law school at Mizzou.  I excelled beyond my wildest of dreams.  I landed a job at Thompson Coburn while still in law school and my legal career took off like a rocket.  

 

But in the end, I am still just a kid from public school in St. Charles, Missouri.  I got lucky at times and I applied myself.  I take nothing for granted and I worked for all success.  But, I got lucky.  I had no connections.

 

I worked with and trained under some of the most well-known litigators in the St. Louis legal community.  I like to think I helped train some of the next generation of quality litigators that have and will emerge in the years to come.

 

Because of my unique legal training and background, I had the chance to see and uncover what so many other parents in St. Louis have experienced and have known to have been happening but have been unable to prove. 

 

I entered my appearance as my own lawyer in my own case where I already had hired my own lawyer and later 2 lawyers.  

 

Never did I expect that the judicial and political corruption that I knew was possible and existed elsewhere, would ensnare me and my children in the St. Louis County Courthouse.

 

Like so many other parents before me, I have been used by the system.  Me, they attacked me without a fear in the world.  That is how expansive this corruption is.  They fear no one, not even a lawyer with all the skills needed to file anything needed to push this matter to the highest levels. They don't even fear me, who could, if I had no ethics, tell stories upon stories about how politics really works in this town.  Most will have to go to my grave with me.

 

In the end they resorted to intimindation, harrassment and hacking of all of my electronic devices.  Not just mine, but a friend a former client.  A former general counsel of a huge, local, publicly traded company.  That individual has already testified that he observed me being following and separately surveilled.  He knows, he is FBI credentialed and he has trained FBI agents at the FBI's facility in Quantico, Virginia. 

 

I have objective proof of all of this.  Some can be found in the latest Civil RICO lawsuit that I filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri (Case No. 4:25-cv-01203).

 

I never thought I’d be here — in this medium – having just filed a federal lawsuit based upon RICO claims along Civil Rights Act claims, and others, sharing what has become not just a legal battle, but a personal war for my life, my rights, and my family.

 

What started as a private custody dispute spiraled into something far darker — something fueled by lies, manipulation, and outright abuse of power. I’ve done everything by the book. I’ve respected the process. I filed in the Eastern District Court of Appeals and just recently in the Missouri Supreme Court.

 

It seems that the Missouri Supreme Court heard my constant reports of corrupt as it entered an Order back on March 4, 2025 appointing a retired circuit judge named T. Lynn Brown to oversee my case. 

 

That Order is on this website. 

 

Unfortunately, 21st Circuit Presiding Judge Bruce Hilton, now a defendant in my RICO case, hid the Order from me and did not enter it on the court docket so that I could read it until 23 days later after I had already filed my pleadings with the Court of Appeals.

 

Within 24 hours of my completion of my filings with the Court of Appeals, my children's mother, Rebecca A. Copeland, her corrupt lawyer Maia Brodie, the corrupt Guardian Ad Litem John Fenley and Judge Bruce F. Hilton retaliated against me for exposing them all and they took my children away from completely. 

 

No more overnights and no more visits.  Nothing.  That is price to be paid for exposing the Presiding Judge of the 21st Circuit Court (Bruce F. Hilton) as the ring-leader of corruption, corruption involving a Special Reprensentative (Maia Brodie) of the Missouri Supreme Court's Office of Chief Discliplinary Counsel. 

 

I’ve asked the courts to simply do what’s right.  And in return, I’ve been treated like I am criminal — not because of what I have done, I have done nothing wrong in the case, especially when it comes to my 2 awesome sons, but because certain people wanted to silence me and force me to surrender to the demands of the corrupt and powerful – and I refused. 

 

They demanded I settle on their terms and pay their extortion.

 

The Guardian Ad Litem, Defendant John Fenley, attemped to extort me and trade me custody of my kids for disavowing my truthful claims of corruption.  I recorded the call.  It is posted on this Website.

 

I refused to settle then and I refuse now.

 

At the heart of this storm is 21st Circuit Presiding Judge Bruce Hilton. He follows the recusal of a corrupt family court Commissioner named Mary W. Greaves.  She recused after I filed a Motion to Disqualify proving that she had engaged in secret, one-sided (ex parte) communications with my children's mother's lawyer - Defendant Maia Brodie.  

 

Anyone knowledgable of family court practice in St. Louis County knows of Maia Brodie's well-earned reputation.  She is violates the law and her ethical obligations.  She does so with ease as she is a "Special Representative" to Region 10 for the Missouri Supreme Court's Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel ("OCDC").  Defendant Brodie is responsible for assisting the police that enforce ethics upon lawyers in St. Louis.  

 

Defendant Hilton is a man whose courtroom has become a place of retaliation, not justice. A place where a years and years long racketeering scheme of corruption runs rampant.  You need to understand that he is the Presiding Judge.  He obtained that position because the other judges in the St. Louis County courthouse, overwhelmingly appointees of Republican Governors, voted to place him in that position.  It is critical to understand that this corruption has spread like a cancer.  The judicial benches are strategically filled with judges that will protect the corrupt system that is in place.  

 

Not all Republican judicial appointees are invovled.  Of course not.  The St. Louis County Family Court is the headquarters of this RICO enterprise.

 

The criminal scheme of corruption is very smart.  The system requires only enough corrupt politicians and judges in just the right places to keep the system going.  It would be a mistake to appoint all crooks to every bench in the State of Missouri. 

 

Instead, just enough are needed to keep the system running and the money flowing.  Money after all is what this is all about.  Money.  It truly is what makes the world function.  Ignore your policitical leanings, everyone can agree on that. Money and power.  They feed off one another and co-exist. 

 

The rumors of judicial corruption are true. The evidence I have gathered and presented is not a rare occasion.

 

The justice system in at least St. Louis County, Missouri is broken and run by corrupt judges, lawyers, guardians ad litem, and politicians.

 

Instead of protecting due process, Defendant Bruce Hilton protects his criminal co-conspirators.

 

I’ve lived with the reality that people I once trusted — including family, my own sister and first cousin — would rather see me in jail or deceased rather than have the truth emerge.

 

My home has been broken into.  My passwords and private documents stolen.  My own sister, Defendant Sarah M. Grant, has produced photographs she took when she broke into my home.  She took pictures of my website passwords, me and my wife's prescription botttles and my business documents.  She, understandably, refused to be interviewed by the Town & Country Police.

 

I’ve been filmed without my knowledge — even in my bedroom — and smeared with lies to my wife’s employer. These aren’t accusations. These are facts I will be bringing forward, backed by thousands of pages of evidence for the world to see.

 

 

I'm not a perfect man. I went through a difficult time last Winter and Spring — a short chapter where my never-disappearing alcoholism crept in again, resulting in a relapse following a few years of serious health issues and a professional trauma that will be addressed later.  Right now my chidren are first.

 

As is detailed in my rather transparent pleadings, I also suffer from depression.  Relapsing back into alcohol use while dealing with depression was more than I could handle alone.

 

These horrible people falsely claimed I committed fraud to obtain Domestic Partner health insurance coverage with my now-wife, just a few days before I left for rehab.  They knew I was at rock bottom and was having suicidal thoughts.  Their plan was and is obvious.

 

But with the help of my wife, I got help.  I got sober once again on March 17,  2024.  More than 17 months ago.  On my own.  My decision. I made that decision before my children’s mother took advantage of my situation and initiated this legal monstrosity that has damaged me and my children.

 

I am 49, but my children are 14 and 16. They are the ones that have suffered the most. Just like the other children before them that had parents slowly digested by the St. Louis County Courthouse.

 

I chose a great facility in California, Oro House, that offered treatment for both of my diseases. I went on my own, not because I was ordered to go by any court order.  I fully engaged in and completed the program and I returned a sober man with a second chance at life.

 

And I’ve now been sober for over a year. I blow in a facial recognition breathalyzer device called Soberlink at least 3 times per day, everyday, going back to April 29, 2024.  I started using that device on my own, without any court Order. I have more than 1,500 or so passing tests with NEVER having failed test.  Everything is on this website and on my Facebook page.  I have attempted to edit all my social media so it can be easily followed, etc.  

 

All the evidence is out there in the public domain.  Objective evidence for all to see.  For all to determine on their own, who is telling the truth.  Look at evidence, ignore my resume and my credibility, look at the evidence alone.  

 

Don´t believe me because this story is compelling.  Sure, I could be insane.  I am not.  But I could be.  Or I could be having a mental challenge at the moment.  I am not.  But I could be.  I passed a mental evaluation and the criminals are afraid to order another one as they are just creating evidence that I caught them, a 21+ year huge firm lawyer and litigator. 

 

Similarly, don´t disbelieve me because my story is difficult to believe.  Don´t blindly believe that the rich and powerful in St. Louis and in the State of Missouri and up the line are not capable of these things.  You know they are. 

 

You have heard the allegations about Sam Page by now.  Google former St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger to refresh your recollection of how corruption has persisted in St. Louis County for years.  It never left.  

 

Through all of this, I never stopped being a committed, loving father. I’ve shown up, stayed strong, and continued fighting to be there for my children — the ones I love more than anything. But Judge Hilton doesn’t care.  Before I even returned from California with a month of sobriety under my belt, the corruption had a hold of me. The corruption judges and commissioner saw me as easy money.  Someone to pilfer at the expense of his children’s best interests.

 

I uncovered the very corruption that so many talk and post about. I saw it with my own eyes. I was an attorney of record in my own case with 2 other corrupt lawyers I hired. I saw it with my own eyes. I vowed to stop it!

 

The rushed postings you may have seen on my Facebook or Linked In are part of my plan.

 

They did serve to buy me time and the chance to circulate important pleadings that tell the story of what the corruption, including Judge Hilton and the others I list have done to me and MY children. My children are focus, not me.

 

The mother of my children, Rebecca Copeland, continues to alienate them from me, and Judge Hilton enables it. Not out of any concerns for my kids’ well-being, I am over 1 year sober. I passed a voluntary mental evaluation with flying colors and Craig Voorhees, Ph.D. issued his report in September.  Check out www.voorheesphd.com.  

 

Judge Hilton and the other criminal co-conspirators, have continued to punish me for doing what is right. For exposing them for what they are.

 

As you see from the tone of my court filings on the other page on this website, this is bigger than me now. I hope my wife is right and I am wrong, but my time here may be short. The corruption I expose is so immense that it is unimaginable.  And that it is the perfect kind of corruption for judges and politicians to perpetuate.  Something so complex that others think it cannot be true.  

 

Here, what I have uncovered has been committed by the most powerful in our County, local Cities, and State, it is beyond comprehension.

 

 

This is about what happens when a system protects its own instead of protecting the innocent – here the children, and a father too. This is about a corrupt system driven by greed and politics, and not truth or justice.

 

This is what happens in a system where corruption is rewarded, and good fathers are erased. Surely, good mothers in just as many cases in the past too.

 

This is my story. It’s painful. It’s real. And it’s not over. At least not yet.

 

I’m telling it now because silence that has persisted has only made things worse. Because I know I’m not the only one who’s been through this. And because someone, somewhere, needs to see that even when the system turns against you — you *can* keep standing. If you’re reading this, thank you for listening. And if you’ve ever felt powerless in the face of injustice — you’re not alone. –

 

This is just another Phase and avenue of my dissemination of information and evidence. Please share and stay tuned for more.

 

 

Everything is true. And it will shock each and every one of you.

 

Please share this story and follow my federal RICO lawsuit.  I will end this corruption.

 

Thanks for your valuable time,

 

Matthew R. Grant, Esq.

 

Proud father of two amazing sons

A loved and loving husband

Missouri lawyer, Bar Number #50312

mattgrant.stl@gmail.com

314-255-7760