Whitfield Montgomery is not the father — and the Missouri attorney general agrees.

The attorney general’s office is dropping its nepotism charge against St. Louis Sheriff Alfred Montgomery in response to a dismissal motion filed Wednesday that cited a 2016 family court order establishing the identity of Deputy Malik Taylor’s father.

In Wednesday's filing, the state reports that it initially had been told Montgomery and Taylor were brothers by a high-ranking sheriff's deputy and that Montgomery had told the deputy, who is not named in the filing, they “should not tell anyone else this information.”

The state said it was unaware of the court-ordered paternity judgment until it was produced earlier this week during depositions.

"What it shows is that they never investigated th

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