The FBI is looking into pardons issued by fmr. Kentucky Gov. Bevin including of a murderer and a child rapist, according to a report.
was convicted of reckless homicide and other crimes in a fatal 2014 home break-in in Knox County. Prosecutors say Baker and another man posed as police officers to gain entry to Donald Mills' home, and Mills was shot in front of his wife.
Baker's family raised $21,500 at a political fundraiser last year for Bevin and Baker's brother and sister-in-law also gave $4,000 to Bevin's re-election campaign on the day of the fundraiser, the Courier Journal reported. Bevin wrote in the pardoning document that Baker's"drug addictions" led him to fall in with the wrong people and the evidence against Baker was"sketchy at best."for rape, sodomy and other sexual crimes, according to Courier-Journal.
Those particular pardons have led several Kentucky lawmakers to ask the state’s incoming attorney general to
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