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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Tonnykats in the Morning News ninety three WIBC. My name
is Craig Collins, filling in on and off. I've been
talking about the big story involving Micah Beckwith's office, the
Lieutenant governor, reported on by WISH TV and a bunch
of other places yesterday. A grand jury a couple times
and I think August and September has contemplated, discussed, and
(00:21):
a lot of it has sealed certain potential charges, allegations
about both a deep fake video that might have been
passed around by members of Beckwith's office and then also
potentially some ghost employees at least one, so some fraud
activity taking place. All these allegations. Beckwick has denied them.
We're going to jump in with Rob Kendall in just
(00:42):
a second. I want to play audio of what Beckwith
said when he was on the campaign trail trying to
get elected to the role of Lieutenant governor. Because it
is uniquely bad for someone that shopped himself as a
Christian candidate, darn ittt as somebody who's a pastor too,
to have in allegation like this, you know, salacious like
(01:03):
this coming out of his office. Here's how Beckwith positioned
himself and Mike Brawn last.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Year and in Indiana specifically. I see if you look
at the Republican ticket versus the Democrat ticket, it's strength
and godly boldness versus just I would say, the Jezebel
spirit and just this, this idea of no boldness right,
this or boldness for immorality right.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Not a good look to be someone who shopped himself
in that way to potentially have this again, something he
has very much denied. We bring in Rob Kendall of
Kendall and Casey because they reported on this story and
they interviewed someone who seemed to be in the know
in the middle of September. Kendall's been on this for
a month and a half. Rob, Welcome to the program.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Thank you, Craig. Pleasure to be with you as always.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Give us some more context, some more information, whatever you know,
whatever you can say, whatever might be coming up on
your show about the Big the Big Beckwith story.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Well, look at this, someone Mike beck With is an
American greed character. That's the famous show on CNBC where
they do documentaries on conman people who have conned people.
Now in this case, it's these people are out of money.
But that's what Micah beck with is he's a con man. Look,
I hold these people accountable for a living. I don't
like any of these people, and he even got me.
(02:19):
He's very good at it, and he is a highly
fraudulent individual. He is a habitual liar. We've caught him
in numerous lies on this show, and this is the
latest one, which is so ridiculous. Everybody knew the Marion
County Prosecutor's office was looking into his office. Everybody knew
that there was this grand jury, and he kept up
(02:42):
this ridiculous, steadfast denial on it and doing this me
so stupid routine. And then they try to villainize people
or look, a grand jury does not mean an indictment,
A grand jury does not mean a conviction. Nobody said
any of those things were going to happen. We simply
said the obvious, which is I know numerous people who
have given information to the Marion County Prosecutor's office, and
(03:06):
if I know about it, he certainly would know about it.
And even to this, I mean, the spokes guy had
just a ridiculous quote in the Indie Star when pressed
on it yesterday the documents are out that this grand
jury exists, and they still won't come off it.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
It is insane to try to, you know, make this
go away via one denying it. Beck With yesterday again
denied it that the video doesn't exist. He's never seen it,
nothing like that. You did an interview in September with
a former member of a Beckwitz team where she described
the video in pretty significant detail. Do you want to
talk more about that at all, about any of the
(03:42):
things that people could go look up and see from
months ago from the Kendall and Casey show that seemed
to obviously demonstrate that a video seems to exist very
much like the one described in this indictment.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Yees indictment. Aaron Sheridan is her name. She was a
senior advisor to Micah beck With. They ran her out
because she kept look Becka wanted to believe that government
was the wild West and he could do whatever he
wanted to do, and that's just not how it works.
There are very strict and stringent rules on how you
have to operate in state government, which I think is
why this grand jury in the Marion Kenny Prosecutor's office
(04:15):
is now looking into his office. He didn't want to
hear it, he didn't want to believe it, so they
ran her out of there and back in April, she alleges,
and look, her story has never changed. I've talked to
her multiple times about this on air off air. The
story has never changed that after the I believe Who's
your idol is the name of the event that the
(04:36):
next day or a couple days after, she was in
the office of the Lieutenant Governor and multiple individuals in
that office she claims we're viewing this AI pornography of
State Representative Craig Haggard's wife. She claims that those individuals,
when she objected to it, said that Micah was aware
(04:57):
of the video, and then she claims after words, she
went to Sherry Ellis, the chief of staff for the
Lieutenant governor, and she basically blew it off and did
absolutely nothing about it. Why would someone make that up
all the things? If you were like, I'm gonna take
down the Lieutenant Governor's office, that would be the thing
you'd come with. I don't even think it's actually a
(05:18):
felony in Indiana. I think that the aiporn stuff is
a misdemeanor. It is laughable to think someone would concoct
that story. Aaron has said this, and it's absolutely true.
She's a she'd been state government for almost thirty years.
She was a highly respected person. She's a pariah. Now
nobody's gonna hire her because she's essentially a whistleblower. She
(05:38):
told the truth. She won't be able to go back.
It is insane to think someone would make that up
and make that up into that detail. And unlike Micah,
whose stories change all the time, her story has never changed.
Can I talk real quick about the importance of Micah's
stories changing real quick? Because this is very important. So
with Micah, like you don't saying it, it's the truth.
(06:00):
You never have to remember what you've told somebody. Here's
a great example of how the story keeps changing with Micah.
So he tried to claim the guy who broke the
story was Tom Lebianco. He's a freelance journalist from from
Maryland and in I think it was March maybe April.
Lebianco's in town working on a piece on Micah, and
(06:21):
he spends the whole day with him. He's in the car,
they go to these various events. They're they're they're very
clearly together for this entire day. And when the story breaks,
Micah goes on various outlets and tries to act like
he has no idea. Who love Labianco is? H? This
is you know this journalist? I don't know he is.
You spent a whole day with him. Then when he
(06:41):
gets pressed about how he found out about the AI
porn video, he goes, well, Labianco called me when he
told me to contact me, and Tom Labianco, in an
official statement to our show, said no, that's absolutely not true.
Micah told me he found out about the video from
someone who was an employee in the treasurer's office, and
the sound like little things. But it's a pattern with Micah,
(07:03):
just like how how did you end up in Game
three of the NBA Finals with a high profile known felon.
He can't tell a cohering, consistent story. It's just one deception,
one lie after another, over and over and over again.
And if you'll lie about the little stuff, why would
anybody not believe you're lying about the big stuff?
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Yeah, are you guys going to cover this in more detail?
On Kendall and Casey Today?
Speaker 3 (07:24):
All day, baby, all day, We give the people.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
What they want, all right, fantasic. I'm also curious about
the ghost employee stuff that's been talked about, and I
know that's not necessarily something that you and I discussed
as much, but I'm wondering if you guys will dive
deeper into that too, because that's just the basic fraud,
you know, actual felony stuff. That might also be a
pretty significant accusation too.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Yeah, and look, I don't know exactly what they're going
for or not going for, or how the grand jury
factors into all of For this, I know what some
people have told the prosecutor's office, and you know, I
think they're casting a very wide net. And look, the
idea real quick, and I know we're short of time,
(08:06):
But this is what Micah's orbit always does. They always
make him out to be a victim, no matter what
the issue is. When he gets called to the account
that he demands of others, they turn him into a victim.
And I've already seen it on this Oh it's about
his faith. Oh, they're coming at him because he's vocal. No,
there's nothing to do with this faith. The Marion Kennedy
prosecutors of Ha's not gonna waste time with the grand
jury and all these effort and all these man hours
(08:26):
because they're mad about some guy being vocal about his faith.
They're looking into this because they are very strict rules
that people who interstate government are supposed to abide by.
And if you don't abide by those rules, and everybody
knows when they walk in you all have ethics training,
everything else, then there are punishment for those actions. And
they believe at least there is some smoke to warrn
(08:46):
an investigation into whether multiple people in that office didn't
follow the rules as they're set forth. They're not doing
anything wrong, it's not gotcha, and maybe they'll ultimately find
absolutely nothing. But Micah Beckwith is a fraud. He's an
habitual liar. He has lied numerous times on this issue,
and it should be a giant red flag for everybody.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
No, And I love the point that you make that
maybe they'll find nothing, not specific to this story, but
just in general, when people do these investigations, the end
result of finding nothing is always a possibility, which makes
you say, all right, I guess it's still worth the
time and effort if you think that we're not going
to find nothing, to go ahead and do it. Kendall
and Casey nine to noon, every single day right here
on ninety three WIBC. In about twenty minutes, you'll hear
(09:29):
Rob Kendall and Casey Daniels cover this topic all day, Baby,
I think is what you said, which is fantastic. I'm
sure some other funny stuff will creep its way into
as it does every day on that show.
Tonnykats in the Morning News ninety three WIBC. My name
is Craig Collins, filling in on and off. I've been
talking about the big story involving Micah Beckwith's office, the
Lieutenant governor, reported on by WISH TV and a bunch
of other places yesterday. A grand jury a couple times
and I think August and September has contemplated, discussed, and
(00:21):
a lot of it has sealed certain potential charges, allegations
about both a deep fake video that might have been
passed around by members of Beckwith's office and then also
potentially some ghost employees at least one, so some fraud
activity taking place. All these allegations. Beckwick has denied them.
We're going to jump in with Rob Kendall in just
(00:42):
a second. I want to play audio of what Beckwith
said when he was on the campaign trail trying to
get elected to the role of Lieutenant governor. Because it
is uniquely bad for someone that shopped himself as a
Christian candidate, darn ittt as somebody who's a pastor too,
to have in allegation like this, you know, salacious like
(01:03):
this coming out of his office. Here's how Beckwith positioned
himself and Mike Brawn last.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Year and in Indiana specifically. I see if you look
at the Republican ticket versus the Democrat ticket, it's strength
and godly boldness versus just I would say, the Jezebel
spirit and just this, this idea of no boldness right,
this or boldness for immorality right.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Not a good look to be someone who shopped himself
in that way to potentially have this again, something he
has very much denied. We bring in Rob Kendall of
Kendall and Casey because they reported on this story and
they interviewed someone who seemed to be in the know
in the middle of September. Kendall's been on this for
a month and a half. Rob, Welcome to the program.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Thank you, Craig. Pleasure to be with you as always.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Give us some more context, some more information, whatever you know,
whatever you can say, whatever might be coming up on
your show about the Big the Big Beckwith story.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Well, look at this, someone Mike beck With is an
American greed character. That's the famous show on CNBC where
they do documentaries on conman people who have conned people.
Now in this case, it's these people are out of money.
But that's what Micah beck with is he's a con man. Look,
I hold these people accountable for a living. I don't
like any of these people, and he even got me.
(02:19):
He's very good at it, and he is a highly
fraudulent individual. He is a habitual liar. We've caught him
in numerous lies on this show, and this is the
latest one, which is so ridiculous. Everybody knew the Marion
County Prosecutor's office was looking into his office. Everybody knew
that there was this grand jury, and he kept up
(02:42):
this ridiculous, steadfast denial on it and doing this me
so stupid routine. And then they try to villainize people
or look, a grand jury does not mean an indictment,
A grand jury does not mean a conviction. Nobody said
any of those things were going to happen. We simply
said the obvious, which is I know numerous people who
have given information to the Marion County Prosecutor's office, and
(03:06):
if I know about it, he certainly would know about it.
And even to this, I mean, the spokes guy had
just a ridiculous quote in the Indie Star when pressed
on it yesterday the documents are out that this grand
jury exists, and they still won't come off it.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
It is insane to try to, you know, make this
go away via one denying it. Beck With yesterday again
denied it that the video doesn't exist. He's never seen it,
nothing like that. You did an interview in September with
a former member of a Beckwitz team where she described
the video in pretty significant detail. Do you want to
talk more about that at all, about any of the
(03:42):
things that people could go look up and see from
months ago from the Kendall and Casey show that seemed
to obviously demonstrate that a video seems to exist very
much like the one described in this indictment.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Yees indictment. Aaron Sheridan is her name. She was a
senior advisor to Micah beck With. They ran her out
because she kept look Becka wanted to believe that government
was the wild West and he could do whatever he
wanted to do, and that's just not how it works.
There are very strict and stringent rules on how you
have to operate in state government, which I think is
why this grand jury in the Marion Kenny Prosecutor's office
(04:15):
is now looking into his office. He didn't want to
hear it, he didn't want to believe it, so they
ran her out of there and back in April, she alleges,
and look, her story has never changed. I've talked to
her multiple times about this on air off air. The
story has never changed that after the I believe Who's
your idol is the name of the event that the
(04:36):
next day or a couple days after, she was in
the office of the Lieutenant Governor and multiple individuals in
that office she claims we're viewing this AI pornography of
State Representative Craig Haggard's wife. She claims that those individuals,
when she objected to it, said that Micah was aware
(04:57):
of the video, and then she claims after words, she
went to Sherry Ellis, the chief of staff for the
Lieutenant governor, and she basically blew it off and did
absolutely nothing about it. Why would someone make that up
all the things? If you were like, I'm gonna take
down the Lieutenant Governor's office, that would be the thing
you'd come with. I don't even think it's actually a
(05:18):
felony in Indiana. I think that the aiporn stuff is
a misdemeanor. It is laughable to think someone would concoct
that story. Aaron has said this, and it's absolutely true.
She's a she'd been state government for almost thirty years.
She was a highly respected person. She's a pariah. Now
nobody's gonna hire her because she's essentially a whistleblower. She
(05:38):
told the truth. She won't be able to go back.
It is insane to think someone would make that up
and make that up into that detail. And unlike Micah,
whose stories change all the time, her story has never changed.
Can I talk real quick about the importance of Micah's
stories changing real quick? Because this is very important. So
with Micah, like you don't saying it, it's the truth.
(06:00):
You never have to remember what you've told somebody. Here's
a great example of how the story keeps changing with Micah.
So he tried to claim the guy who broke the
story was Tom Lebianco. He's a freelance journalist from from
Maryland and in I think it was March maybe April.
Lebianco's in town working on a piece on Micah, and
(06:21):
he spends the whole day with him. He's in the car,
they go to these various events. They're they're they're very
clearly together for this entire day. And when the story breaks,
Micah goes on various outlets and tries to act like
he has no idea. Who love Labianco is? H? This
is you know this journalist? I don't know he is.
You spent a whole day with him. Then when he
(06:41):
gets pressed about how he found out about the AI
porn video, he goes, well, Labianco called me when he
told me to contact me, and Tom Labianco, in an
official statement to our show, said no, that's absolutely not true.
Micah told me he found out about the video from
someone who was an employee in the treasurer's office, and
the sound like little things. But it's a pattern with Micah,
(07:03):
just like how how did you end up in Game
three of the NBA Finals with a high profile known felon.
He can't tell a cohering, consistent story. It's just one deception,
one lie after another, over and over and over again.
And if you'll lie about the little stuff, why would
anybody not believe you're lying about the big stuff?
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Yeah, are you guys going to cover this in more detail?
On Kendall and Casey Today?
Speaker 3 (07:24):
All day, baby, all day, We give the people.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
What they want, all right, fantasic. I'm also curious about
the ghost employee stuff that's been talked about, and I
know that's not necessarily something that you and I discussed
as much, but I'm wondering if you guys will dive
deeper into that too, because that's just the basic fraud,
you know, actual felony stuff. That might also be a
pretty significant accusation too.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Yeah, and look, I don't know exactly what they're going
for or not going for, or how the grand jury
factors into all of For this, I know what some
people have told the prosecutor's office, and you know, I
think they're casting a very wide net. And look, the
idea real quick, and I know we're short of time,
(08:06):
But this is what Micah's orbit always does. They always
make him out to be a victim, no matter what
the issue is. When he gets called to the account
that he demands of others, they turn him into a victim.
And I've already seen it on this Oh it's about
his faith. Oh, they're coming at him because he's vocal. No,
there's nothing to do with this faith. The Marion Kennedy
prosecutors of Ha's not gonna waste time with the grand
jury and all these effort and all these man hours
(08:26):
because they're mad about some guy being vocal about his faith.
They're looking into this because they are very strict rules
that people who interstate government are supposed to abide by.
And if you don't abide by those rules, and everybody
knows when they walk in you all have ethics training,
everything else, then there are punishment for those actions. And
they believe at least there is some smoke to warrn
(08:46):
an investigation into whether multiple people in that office didn't
follow the rules as they're set forth. They're not doing
anything wrong, it's not gotcha, and maybe they'll ultimately find
absolutely nothing. But Micah Beckwith is a fraud. He's an
habitual liar. He has lied numerous times on this issue,
and it should be a giant red flag for everybody.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
No, And I love the point that you make that
maybe they'll find nothing, not specific to this story, but
just in general, when people do these investigations, the end
result of finding nothing is always a possibility, which makes
you say, all right, I guess it's still worth the
time and effort if you think that we're not going
to find nothing, to go ahead and do it. Kendall
and Casey nine to noon, every single day right here
on ninety three WIBC. In about twenty minutes, you'll hear
(09:29):
Rob Kendall and Casey Daniels cover this topic all day, Baby,
I think is what you said, which is fantastic. I'm
sure some other funny stuff will creep its way into
as it does every day on that show.
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