Prominent Missouri Republicans tried to influence judge in Ponzi scheme case

Siddharth Jawahar was set to pay Republican operative Jeff Roe. Then U.S. Rep. Sam Graves wrote a letter to the judge and a story appeared in the Jefferson City paper.
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