>> The FBI is looking into the pardons that Matt Bevin, the former Kentucky Governor has
granted.
And he granted these pardons right before his governorship was up.
As we all know, he lost his re-election bid.
And what we know is that a state representative has disclosed that the FBI has reached out
to him.
And here's what he has to say.
State Representative Chris Harris told reporters that a criminal investigator contacted him
last week and asked what he knew about Bevin's pardons.
Now, I wanna be clear about something for those who maybe haven't followed this story
from the beginning.
Matt Bevin didn't pardon non-violent offenders, maybe people who were caught with possession
of marijuana.
Now, in that case, those pardons would be completely fine.
That's something that we're very supportive of because non-violent individuals who had
possession of drugs do not belong behind bars.
What he did do was pardon convicted felons who were convicted of violent crimes.
Things like homicide and rape.
Let me give you more.
Harris did not elaborate on what questions were asked by this investigator.
And he declined to say which law enforcement agency contacted him.
But here's what he did say, I can confirm that I've been contacted by someone looking
into the pardons that were issued by Governor Bevin on his way out the door.
The impression I got is there was an investigation ramping up.
It may be a formal investigation or it may not be a formal investigation, Harris told
the Courier Journal.
It may be just calling to see if there's anything there to warrant a full investigation.
I can tell you, at least, there are questions being asked.
Now, two sources with knowledge of the inquiry to the Courier Journal on Monday that an FBI
agent had spoken with Harris.
An FBI spokeswoman declined to comment, say the agency could neither confirm nor deny
the existence of said investigation when reached late Monday night.
So just to go back and give you specific examples of the type of people, Bevin pardoned, the
courier Journal reported that Patrick Baker's brother held a campaign, Patrick Baker was
one of the people that was pardoned.
He was convicted of homicide.
His brother actually held a campaign fundraiser at his home for Bevin in July of 2018 that
raised $21,500.
The former governor also received a letter from business executive Terry Forcht, one
of the state's Republican mega-donors, urging Bevin to pardon Baker.
>> Okay, got it.
So we talked a little bit about this on Friday, but that's a really important development.
About Forcht.
So that information was not available to us at that time.
And so now the Courier Journal in Kentucky is reporting that there's actually over 650
people that he has pardoned or commuted the sentence out.
And one of my theories on Friday was that part of the reason that he pardoned so many
people is to hide the donors that he pardoned in the middle.
And so some of the pardons are so heinous, as we're gonna get to in a second, that it
kind of distracts you from the Baker pardon.
And Baker is a guy who committed murder and tampered with evidence, impersonated a police
offer and did a robbery.
And this is not a pardon of a guy from, he did it back in 87' or so.
No, he did it in 2017, two years ago.
And so his family's very well connected, gives, what I call, legalized bribes, to Bevin.
Now the media oftentimes says, no, those are not bribes.
Or in fact, every time they say, no, those are legitimate campaign contributions.
Well, when these guys give him $21,500, and then they say, hey, wouldn't it be great if
our brother was out of prison?
And then all of a sudden his brother comes out of prison?
What the hell do you call that?
That is a bribe.
And by the way, it's a bribe when these guys do it so, so bright when Exxon Mobil does
it, when Pfizer does it when any company does it, it's obviously a bribe.
But Forcht is a super important development because he has given at least $2.8 million
to state and national political causes over the last 40 years.
Including more than $100,000 to Bevins campaign and in an inauguration funds.
So it's not just 21,000 it's Forcht who is a mega donor won a mega donor calls you and
he's bribed the party to the tune of $2.8 million.
You're gonna do what he says.
It doesn't matter how heinous, doesn't matter how awful, l you will do as you're told.
These politicians are not leaders, their followers, their water boys, their errand boys, for the
rich and for multinational corporations.
>> Yep.
>> So when Forched says jump, Bevin says how high and how many killers you need me to pardon
because I'm here to serve you.
And that's exactly what happened here.
>> Yeah, that's exactly right.
And as I mentioned earlier some of the convictions were for rapists, child rapists and recently
Bevin was asked to explain his reasons for party need people like that.
And he's gonna explain why in the clip that we're about to show you.
But look, before we go to it, I have to say it was disturbing for me to listen to.
So I wanna give you a fair warning before we go to it.
>> And the guy is Mico Schoettle and he raped a nine year old girl.
Okay, and now you'll see Bevin calls a speculative or whatever, you'll see the exact words you
use in a second.
Remember, he was convicted.
It's not at all speculative, he was convicted.
Now, let's listen to Bevin talking about it.
>> A child rapist though.
That is the lowest form of human life.
>> Absolute scum of the earth.
>> For people who have raped children, anybody who volitionally assaults another person.
And any kind of a sexual assault in particular, and especially on a child, to me, is reprehensible.
>> How could you.
>> To assume, however, that everybody who has ever been accused of this And even convicted
of this has in fact done this is a big assumption to make.
It really is.
There was a second one.
This was a guy named Mika Scotelli or Sco, I don't even know how to pronounce his last
name.
Let me tell you about this fellow.
He was accused of sexually assaulting repeatedly for over the course of almost two years.
Well, over year, every single Wednesday, I believe it was, repeatedly sexually assaulting
her and her sister, this girl claimed.
She said that every week, he came in and sexually assaulted me and my sister.
Well, the same sister who is the same room every time, denied all of it.
These girls both were examined medically, they were examined physically.
There was zero evidence, zero.
Both their hymens were intact.
This is perhaps more specific than people would want.
But trust me, if you have been repeatedly sexually violated as a small child by an adult,
there are going to be repercussions of that physically and medically.
There was zero evidence of that.
>> Jesus Christ.
Okay, other than being monstrous, he's of course, wrong as we pointed out on Friday.
Only 2.1% of subjects examined had visible lesions on the hymen.
In survey of pediatric child abuse rape cases.
So 98% of the time the hymen is intact and this guy's like, what, what her hymen was
intact, it's fine.
And after the guy was already convicted, the first case he was talking about was a 15 year
old that was raped so brutally that the child had internal injuries.
And they took pictures of it and put it on social media.
>> And he did the pardon anyway.
>> Jeez.
>> So I don't know if he's some sort of sadist, and-
>> It's disgusting, yeah, I mean, God, lowest of the low, scum of the Earth, really, right?
Where that money for your campaigns was way more important than actual human lives.
And hundreds and hundreds of pardons, right?
Because he believes that these were, well, this is the excuse he's giving, that they
were wrongful convictions.
If he genuinely thought that, wouldn't that light a fire under him?
Wouldn't he want to do something about the justice system if it's that wrong that often?
>> Yeah.
Well, so I don't know that he picked those cases because he's a particularly brutal and
sadist guy.
Or maybe it's and, but or to kind of distract people from the one he got bribed on.
By my god, everybody's talking about the nine year old and a 15 year old and maybe not talking
enough about the guy who, whose family did the fundraising for them.
Now look, I love that the FBI might be investigating this, but if we’re being honest, what are
they investing?
In this country it’s legal to bribe politicians, it’s called campaign contributions.
There’s not a God damn thing you can do about it.
The Supreme Court says that that murderous family was just talking to Bevin.
And when Forcht gave 2.8 million dollars to Republicans and $100,000 to Bevin, he was
just using his freedom of speech to talk to Bevin.
That's what the Supreme Court says Mitch McConnell from the state of Kentucky same state is the
biggest defender of that.
He says no, no, no, no.
When multinational corporations and rich donors give us millions of dollars, they're just
talking to us.
And they have a right to talk to us.
So it is legal in this country to bribe politicians that way.
I know it seems shocking, but it's absolutely true.
So I don't know what the in the world they would be investigating.
So the problem is it that it's illegal.
The problem is that it's legal.
So that's why I tell you guys about wolf-pac all the time, wolf-pac.com because if you
don't get the money out of politics, what the hell are we doing?
I know other groups that care about money in politics and they mean well but they say
things like.
Well, we gonna take action when there is a big scandal.
The whole thing is a scandal and can you get a bigger scandal than this.
To let murder and child rapists go because of campaign contributions and what are we
doing about it.
What are we doing about it?
What is the Republic party doing, they are celebrating it.
They are celebrating this bribery no way surpass, if you're a media person, and you say that
the Republicans don't celebrate these legalized bribes, you're a liar.
You're an absolute liar.
Mitch McConnell and the Republican party love this system where you can give unlimited campaign
contributions to politicians through super packs, fundraisers, wine caves, etc., which
leaves me with the Democrats.
Unfortunately, 80% of the Democratic party also loves this system, also celebrates it.
So spare me their fake outrage on this issue for real Americans, by the way.
93% of us including Republican voters hate this system.
They know that is corruption but the band marches on and pretends that Bevin is an outlier.
Is some sort of unusual case.
No, it's the same exact thing as everyone else, except instead of getting bribes to
help the oil companies destroy the planet as an example.
Or from insurance companies to destroy our healthcare system where by the way because
of private insurance, 45,000 people a year die, 45,000 people a year.
But those who answer no, just campaign contributions, right?
In this case, it happens to be murderers and rapists, but it's a bribe any way you slice
it.