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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has for months stonewalled a new round of coronavirus emergency relief, specifically digging in on liability protections for businesses as a "red line" in negotiations with House Democrats and the Trump administration.[...]

Mr. McConnell is drafting legislation to protect the nursing home industry from lawsuits — even though home residents and workers represent a third of the country's coronavirus deaths. [...]

In all, Kentucky nursing homes have received more than $180 million in federal coronavirus relief funds.

This issue, it turns out, happens to be of particular concern to one of McConnell's most loyal and longstanding allies: a prominent businessman and Republican donor in Kentucky named Terry Forcht. [...]

Forcht has been one of McConnell's top backers for decades, and in 2014 the majority leader offered a tribute to Forcht on the Senate floor. In fact, the two men are so close that McConnell penned the foreword to a biography of Forcht published earlier this year [...]

The true font of Forcht's political influence, however, is his nursing homes. He started his first one in 1972 and today owns nine of them [...] As of 2009, those nine homes were still Forcht Group's largest income stream. [...]

Earlier this month, with McConnell dug in on liability protections, 96 residents and 42 staff members tested positive amid an outbreak at a Forcht home in Hazard, Kentucky, which had already seen at least four deaths. State statistics and national Medicare database show that Forcht's facility in Williamsburg has seen at least 66 cases and 12 deaths so far. Forcht's Knott County facility has reported at least 45 cases and eight deaths, while another in Hillcrest registered at least 198 cases and nine deaths. This fall, Forcht homes saw a series of outbreaks that have made Kentucky news.

Troublingly, one outbreak in Knox County this October led to a spike of cases in the greater community, which continued for weeks. [...]

Richard Beliles, chairman of Common Cause Kentucky, a group that advocates for accountability and equity in government, has stood opposite McConnell on most issues for decades, specifically campaign finance. He told Salon that Forcht and McConnell likely have a broader long-term goal, and may be trying to wrap otherwise untenable liability protections in the bunting of the pandemic. 

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Did Mitch McConnell block relief bill for months because of a Kentucky nursing home mogul?

Did Mitch McConnell block relief bill for months because of a Kentucky nursing home mogul?

Did Mitch McConnell obstruct relief costs for months as a result of a Kentucky retirement home mogul?Businessman Terry Forcht brings a great deal of weight in Kentucky politics, as well as he as well as McConnell go back decades Learn more …

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$1M GOP Donor Urged Ex-Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin to Pardon Convicted Killer

One of Kentucky’s most generous Republican donors reportedly urged the state’s former governor, Matt Bevin, to pardon a convicted killer shortly before he freed the man during his last week in office. Public records surfaced Tuesday by Louisville’s Courier Journal show Terry Forcht, who has given more than $1 million to Republican candidates, lobbied Bevin twice for the release of convicted killer Patrick Baker. Forcht wrote to Bevin in June urging him to give Baker a gubernatorial pardon, saying: “I know his family and still feel he has turned his life around.” Shortly after that letter, an investigator looking into Baker’s case on Bevin’s behalf advised him it would be inappropriate to issue a pardon. However, Bevin went ahead and issued the pardon during his last week in office this month. Bevin wrote: “The evidence supporting his conviction is sketchy at best.” In December 2017, Baker was sentenced to 19 years in prison, convicted of reckless homicide, robbery and impersonating a peace officer.

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Public records show prominent Kentucky banker Terry Forcht lobbied then Gov. Matt Bevin on behalf of Patrick Baker twice.

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Public records show prominent Kentucky banker Terry Forcht lobbied then Gov. Matt Bevin on behalf of Patrick Baker twice.

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Public records show prominent Kentucky banker Terry Forcht lobbied then Gov. Matt Bevin on behalf of Patrick Baker twice.

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