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 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 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 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. 

 

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 counsel of record are part of the corruption.  One was my law partner at Husch Blackwell.  That will make sense as you follow my filings.  I am targeting Republican corruption but the individuals involved are very powerful.  You will see the names I volunteer in my pleadings.  

 

I reached out to the most notable democratic lawyers in the St. Louis Metro area.  None will touch this one.  None wants to join this worthy battle.  All recognize that my claims are true, but it is professional retirement for anyone that pursues this.  Just like me, anyone else that represents me surely will never be able to safely practice in any Missouri court again.

 

I spoke on several occassions with a sitting democratic Judge across the river, just a few short miles from downtown St. Louis.  I respect that judge and he told me what others have as well.  Not even the most fearless of democratic lawyers will take on this fight with me.  It is simply asking too much.  I understand, I do.  I trust that democratic judge with everything that I know.  He possesses electronic copies of the entire case file for my St. Louis County court case.  This story will be told.

 

Because I am a lawyer and lawyer who sat in rooms that very few will ever know existed, I know the system.  My former firm reprsented former Governor Greitens.  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. I am providing objective proof that I know how the game is played.  

 

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 and 2 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.  A man named Jack Musgrave at Thompson Coburn saw talent in me and offered me a job.  Mr. Musgrave is a Mizzou Tiger. 

 

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 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.  I knew to keep an eye on things.

 

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.  

 

I never thought I’d be here — in this medium – having just asked the Missouri Supreme Court and now the general public and news media, to intervene in or at least share 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. 

 

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 very little wrong, 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.

 

I refused then and I refuse now.

 

At the heart of this storm is 21st Circuit Presiding Judge Bruce Hilton. He follows the recusal of a corruption family court Commissioner named Mary Greaves.

 

Mr. Hilton is a man whose courtroom has become a place of retaliation, not justice. A place where likely more than a decade’s long 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.  That is more important than you understand at the moment.  It is critical to understand that this corruption has spread like a cancer.  The judicial benches are stacked from top to bottom with judges that will protect the corrupt system that is in place.  

 

Not all Republican judicial appointees are invovled and I believe a few Democrat appointees are allowing this to persist.  The 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.  Just enough 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 presented is not a rare occasion.

 

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

 

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

 

But the story doesn’t stop there. It’s hard to even say this — but the mother of my children worked with court insiders to plot an execute a plan to frame me for attempting kidnapping. That’s not speculation — it’s documented. The guardian ad litem even told the judge on a Tuesday, “I will have a safety issue to address on Friday.”

 

Days later, on that Friday morning, I was dragged into chaos built on fabrication.

 

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

 

My home has been broken into. My passwords and private documents stolen.

 

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.

 

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.

 

But with the help of my wife, I got help. I got sober on March 17, 2024.  More than 1 year ago.  On my own. My 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 13 and 15. 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, 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 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 1,200 or so passing tests with NEVER having failed test.  Everything is on this website, on my Facebook or on my Linked In page.  It is all out there.  Objective evidence for all to see.  For all to determine on their own, who is telling the truth.  Look at evidence.  

 

Don´t believe me because this story is compelling.  I could be lying.  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. 

 

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.  

 

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. N ot 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 is likely 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 it cannot be true.  That is what has been done.

 

Here, what I have uncovered has been going by the most powerful in our city, state and nation, is beyond comprehension.

 

You likely look at my posts for typos and interpret that I am intoxicated, or surmise that I am having a mental situation, because how could what I say be true?  Aren’t I, like a friend of mine recently commented to me, just “a parent who got a bad result in family court”?

 

No! That is not at all who I am. I found my way into something much bigger. It is mind-boggling.

 

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 Phase One 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.

 

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

matt.grant@stopmissouricorruption.com - pending launch

matthew.grant@practus.com

314-412-9112

 

P.S. I have rewritten this story so many times.  I tried to strike a balance of credibility and humility.  I am no different or better than the hundreds if not thousands of other parents that have gone through this.  I merely tried to demonstrate that i have a unique voice.  One that is louder than others in this particular context.  It will be heard if it costs me every penny that I have earned and saved in my career!  The sole exception is the money I have set aside for my 2 sons for their college expenses and a start to their future.  The rest is my war chest, that I am spending freely.  Stay tuned, you will see.