St. Louis Board of Aldermen President Megan Green and her campaign committee have entered into a consent order with the Missouri Ethics Commission after the state agency found probable cause that they violated Missouri campaign finance laws by accepting improper corporate and LLC contributions and misreporting union donations. The commission imposed a $3,000 penalty, with $2,700 stayed, following a complaint filed on July 21.
According to FOX 2, the complaint centers on three contributions Green's committee accepted in 2025. Her campaign took a $2,600 contribution from Advanced Environmental Services, Inc. on September 11, 2025, even though Missouri campaign finance laws prohibit corporations or labor organizations from making contributions directly to campaign committees. The complaint also states the committee did not reject and return that contribution within the required 10-business-day window.
That same day, the committee accepted another $2,600 contribution, this one from H & A Restoration & Development LLC. Per the complaint, that LLC was not registered with the Missouri Ethics Commission at the time it made the donation, even though it later registered on January 26. Missouri law does allow certain LLCs to make campaign contributions if they meet specific requirements, but under Missouri Revised Statutes § 130.029.4, enacted through House Bill 2400, an LLC must exist for at least a year and electronically register with the commission attesting to its legitimate business status before contributing.
Union Donations Miscounted Too
The complaint also flags a reporting error involving Unite Here Tip Missouri State and Local Fund. Green's campaign received $2,600 in total contributions from that fund, split between a $1,200 donation on February 29, 2024, and a $1,400 donation on August 28, 2025, but the committee reported the aggregate as $2,400 in an October 2025 quarterly report, a $200 discrepancy.
Green's campaign team pushed back on the severity of the findings. Her campaign said the committee returned every improper contribution, corrected the record, and voluntarily resolved the matter, and it noted that the commission found no intentional wrongdoing.
Under the consent order, Green's committee must pay $300 within 45 days. The remaining $2,700 will be stayed unless probable cause of another campaign finance violation occurs within two years, a standard structure the Missouri Ethics Commission has used in past enforcement actions that requires candidates to pay only a fraction of a penalty upfront while the rest hangs over their head on conditional probation.
Not Green's First Brush With State Ethics Enforcement
This is not the first time Green has faced discipline from the state's ethics regulator. In July 2019, the Missouri Ethics Commission issued a consent order against Green and her committee at the time, Megan Green for the 15th Ward, imposing a $1,000 penalty with $900 stayed for failing to properly disclose campaign contributions, putting her on a two-year probation period to avoid that stayed fine.
The new violations also land close to home within Green's own office. In December 2025, Christine Ingrassia, who serves as Green's director of operations at the Board of Aldermen earning $90,076 a year, agreed to a $45,964 consent judgment with the commission resolving campaign finance violations from her prior tenure as a city alderwoman, according to KSDK. Ingrassia resigned as alderwoman in 2023 before joining Green's executive staff.
The Statutes Behind the Violations
The rules Green's committee is accused of breaking trace back a decade. Missouri voters passed Constitutional Amendment 2 in November 2016, which reinstated state contribution caps and barred corporations and labor organizations from giving directly to candidate committees, instead requiring that spending to flow through registered political action committees. The General Assembly followed up in 2022 with House Bill 2400, adding LLC registration requirements specifically to curb dark-money shell entities from making unmonitored donations. That same year, the commission launched a searchable online LLC registration portal so campaign treasurers could verify a donor's eligibility before accepting a check.
An Anti-Corruption Brand Meets a Second Enforcement Action
Green rose to the Board presidency in a November 2022 special election, filling the unexpired term of Lewis Reed, who resigned after being indicted on federal bribery charges, per KSDK. She ran on an anti-corruption platform in that race and was re-elected to a full four-year term unopposed in April 2023, the same year a historic city charter change downsized the Board of Aldermen from 28 ward members to 14. She has served as Board President full-time since April 2023 and earns an $80,000 annual salary, holding one of three voting seats on the city's Board of Estimate and Apportionment alongside the mayor and comptroller, as Hoodline has previously reported. Before that, she spent eight years as alderwoman for the 15th Ward, starting in a 2014 special election.
The stayed $2,700 penalty means Green's committee is now on a two-year compliance clock running through August 2028, a window that stretches into her next scheduled election for Board President in April 2027. Whether the episode dents the anti-corruption reputation that helped launch her citywide career remains an open question for St. Louis voters to weigh as that race approaches.
