But Ryder noted that the email discussed by Jamboretz did not concern the marketing contract for Rallo’s Cardinal Creative Consulting. “On the Cardinal Creative deal, which is what the newspaper was asking about at the time, Rallo was treated differently because he was a donor and Stenger instructed Sweeney to get Rallo the contract.”

Jamboretz, a former news anchor for KPLR-TV (Channel 11), left the Partnership earlier this year to join Common Ground Public Relations in Chesterfield as an account supervisor. Interviewed on Wednesday, she said she still considered herself a journalist and did not mean to mislead another journalist.

“I’m speaking to them in a text chain with extremely limited knowledge of what actually happened,” she said. “Because from where I sat at that point, Sheila was telling me we dealt squarely with John Rallo and I have this email to prove it. And I said, if you have the email, go and use it.”

“As this has progressed, it has made me understand how very little I was in on,” she said. “And to be abundantly clear, I have never been contacted by any investigators, but if they want to talk to me, I would be happy to sit down and be fully transparent.”

Crafting Stenger’s lies