31-05-2025
A man joked about a mayor's legal trouble. Then, a subpoena arrived.
When a 15-year-old boy disappeared in Riverview, Missouri, last month, James Carroll posted a photo of the boy in the city's Nextdoor group with a joke: 'Someone check Riverview's mayor's basement!'
Carroll said his online comment in early April was an attempt to alert the city's residents to a past lawsuit accusing Mayor Michael Cornell of luring a man from Texas with a promise of a job only to fire him for rejecting Cornell's sexual advances.
