The threatening phone call allegedly came from a phone registered to KEN KIELTY, former City Councilman, former Chairman of the Convention and Sports Facilities Authority, confidant to Mayor York. First Capitol News File Photo by Tony BrockmeyerBy Tony Brockmeyer
A threatening telephone call made against Bob Bredensteiner on Sunday, October 23, 2005 was traced to a telephone registered to Ken Kielty.
Bob Bredensteiner told the First Capitol News, “I had SBC trap the call and although they would not tell me where the call came from they said they would fax it to the police department. A couple of days latter I was told by the police the call came from a phone registered to Kenneth Kielty.”
According to Bredensteiner he received a threatening telephone call after a letter he had written was published in the First Capitol News. The letter was regarding a former priest at St. Charles Borromeo Church who has since been defrocked because of complaints that had been leveled against him.
Bredensteiner said, “The police told me they talked to Kielty and asked him to come into the Police station to discuss the call. They said he would come in the following day. The police told me the next day they received a call from Kielty’s son, who is an attorney, and he told them his father would not be coming in for an interview. The police told me since I wanted to prosecute they would forward my complaint to the prosecuting attorney.
Bredensteiner has been a frequent writer of Letters to the Editor and has been a very vocal opponent of Mayor Patti York who also serves as a Eucharistic minister at the church. He has been at the front of a movement to recall the Mayor and is a frequent visitor and spokesman at City Council Meetings.
Kielty is a former City Councilman, former owner and operator of the Missouri State License Agency office on Raymond, former school counselor and former Chairman of the Greater St. Charles Convention and Sports Facilities Authority. Kielty is a confidant of Mayor York, one of the founders of the Mayor’s Defense Fund Solicitation Group, a contributor to the Citizens for Responsible Government political mudslinging group headed by Raymond Stone and Carl Maus, a confidant of Adolphus Busch IV and his Greater Habitat Alliance and co-founder with Glennon Jamboretz of St. Charles Citizens for Responsible Government a group that is working on the recall of City Councilman Mark Brown and Council woman Dottie Greer.
When Kielty was replaced on the County Convention and Facilities Board by Governor Blount he attempted to have the board hire him as a consultant. Failing that he is now trying to have County Executive Orthwerth appoint him to the office of County Collector. The County Collector has resigned and the County Executive has to appoint a member of the same party, Democratic, to fill the position until the next election. The FCN has been told that the St. Charles County Democratic Committee has sent a letter to the County Executive asking that Kielty not be considered for the interim appointment as collector.
