Vetting Wesley Bell

“There are some people who don’t like the decision I made, and my response to them is, I don’t like the decision that I made.”- Wesley Bell

In October of 2020, one of Wesley Bell's assistant prosecutors filed a lawsuit claiming Bell had fired her and forced out five other female attorneys in favor of male employees and created a hostile work environment for female attorneys in his office.

An intern known only as “Jane" was hired in January 2019 shortly after Wesley Bell took office. As the office's only paid intern, she earned $18/hour, more than the hourly rate of 20 other regular employees, some of whom have worked there for years.

 An analysis of Bell's expense records during his first nine months in office reveals his appetite for dining out and traveling on the taxpayer dime.

In 2006, Bell managed the campaign of Mark J. Byrne, a Republican candidate challenging Rep. Lacy Clay in Missouri's 1st Congressional District.

Wesley Bell donated to Republican State Rep. Dean Plocher in 2009 and 2010. Dean Plocher then donated to Wesley Bell in 2013 and 2014.

When he was a judge in Velda City, Bell ran an illegal bail system that preyed upon poor Black people and was sued by ArchCity Defenders.