Former St Louis prosecutor Kim Gardner spent hundreds of work hours on nursing degree, scathing audit finds

Former St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner failed "to make her job as circuit attorney her top priority," according to a report.

Republican Missouri State Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick released a 71-page report on Tuesday, as well as a press release, that supported a previous statement of Gardner being the captain of a "rudderless ship of chaos" as she pursued a nurse practitioner certification during the hours she should have been doing her job.

The former Democratic prosecutor spent 34.5 working days...