Republican former governor of Virginia bob McDonnell's in a little bit of
trouble
he him and his wife Maureen have been indicted by a federal grand jury in
relation
2007 gifts and loans that were given to him by Johnny R Williams senior
an executive the a dietary supplement company star Scientific now
this is the case it's been brewing for some time and
that the grand jury wants to look into the evidence and find out how
how legitimate the claims a corruption in this instance are so got bob
McDonnell up to a press conference that he's talking about a
obviously sticking up from cell let's give them a chance to explain why he
thinks what he did was completely legal
I come before this evening as someone who has been
falsely and wrongfully accused in his public service
has been wrongfully attack on
earlier today federal prosecutors file criminal charges against me and my wife
Moore Aiden alleging then we violated federal law by accepting gifts and loans
from Johnny Williams a former co-star scientific well I deeply regret
accepting these legal BS in loans for mister Williams
all of these now have been returned are repaid with interest
I have apologize for my poor judgment and I except for
full responsibility for accepting these legal gifts and loans
yet this is the year ago varied careful word choice
yes conferences apparently he just keeps saying their legal gets here near Preah
Vihear
and HACCP completely regret taking these legal get me because I always hate when
I do completely legal shit
yeah he did well on are what I do that stuff well as okay to do
ok is the problem is that it's clearly corrupt what he did
the question is is it legal or that illegal and that
line between legal bribes and illegal bribes
are so blurred now this hard to release day one way or the other
and that's a problem a he screwed up by not being savvy enough
to follow everything throughout pac political action committee an all the
campaign contributions
heated the gifts directly the loans directly and I was as big
yeah yes so %uh I I'm not shy I believe in the end we'll find out what he did
was actually cropped I
for looking at the the evidence we have right now I don't think it's an OPP
like that's not fun done yet the case and get somebody shot their girls are so
that other sector numbers I couldn't get to those words but anyway I
so he is saying that yes he was given these things but until you can prove
that he actually helped out the company in some way
it's not technically corruption and where to get to some other specifics
other in and evaluate you need to feel worse
I'm sorry I was really fast out here I wanted to make his case for why
this was a case of government corruption but just a friend helping out a friend
I repeat again in battling
but I did nothing illegal for mister Williams
in exchange for what I believe was his personal friendship
and his generosity no I never promised
and mister Williams and his company never received
any government benefit up any kind for me or from my administration
no contract loan grant funding
legislation budget appropriation regulation
border commission assignment or any
other official state benefit I never promised
or attempted to influence anyone to give mister wayans workers company
any official state benefits its so if you look it became
we gonna freeze frame on them because if you look at them they all look like the
same person in this
but didn't dresser to be like like his wife looks like the female version of
him
and that your daughter it looks like the younger version of her
yeah right they all look like the same person but in different manifestations
up themselves right
the one face alone and back to her about it but so we are saying is Johnny that
they have to prove
a quid pro quo right so I gave him this money so he would do this for me
but so what they only computer right now is he definitely gave them money
else he has a very low I think I S and it's always kinda and
they're trying to say was a long we're going to repay it with interest and all
that stuff it
but they were having some hot financial hard times his family that's why the
yet cuz I can't go on like this is such a lotta money why would they be
risking it all implied by miss it because they were in dire straits they
bought some property
against when they're happy %uh going into that okay so basically they had
rental property that they were having a hard time writing out at one point he
asked his eye
children to talk to their friends and say that he would give them discounts if
they would come right there about obviously doesn't seem legal to make
I one point though his wife met with the the gentleman in question I Johnny R
Williams junior
and told him that they were having severe financial difficulties they
didn't know how they're gonna pay for their daughter's upcoming wedding
yeah she asked for a fifty thousand dollar loan as well as fifteen thousand
dollars to pay the remaining catering costs
and also according to the indictment said that she would be willing to help
out that corporation if he gave her the financial assistance
and so I don't know what evidence the night it has for that last charge
it could be a case so you know he said she said and
and we do have other cases where that where bob McDonnell
I'm texted the guy asking him for twenty thousand dollar loan
I got a response that would be said to him and so this was going back and forth
in some cases it seems difficult to
identify whether or not bob McDonnell knew about particular loans but there
are others that they know he had asked for
and got and there is shady behavior so one point apparently
%uh the guy in charge that supplement company had talked to
but to bob McDonnell about having government employees be sorted guinea
pigs for one other supplements
known as and at the block any also bob dollar one point told Virginia officials
that he was drinking at that it's super healthy that they should consider it
and so at this point that seems shady it seems like beer
that the the sort of behavior in person who is willing to do quid pro quo
but we don't have hard evidence over just yet okay
the other thing is that i guess i Williams
had some sort of company bad at the mansion are
the governor's office yes which is this seem small time
you know I'm is like saying hey you give me a nice little
you know yep chunk of change you can hang out the governor's mansion
and the cool me that raise the profile of the company yep so
in as far as quid pro quo quo goes
it seems fairly I minor leagues here to me
what but it's definitely corruption
I mean by things minor corruption by is that the Kraken look
this does look this out the fact that the lowest total nonsense
mean they got the money these are not realize there are no loan doc was drawn
up
there's nothing there's no payment yet on these loans until they're caught
right so when they're caught like all such as a loan before the gift